[TheForge] OT - fuses in a 230V (US) circuit

[xlch58 at swbell.net]

On 2/16/2012 7:02 AM, John Allen wrote:
> So on a 220v system, you have
> a hot and a ground on the same leg 1/60th of a second.
Understand what you meant, but technically you have a hot and a neutral 
alternating back and forth.  In a properly operating system the ground 
is always at ground potential all of the time.    Also as a point of 
interest, the North American system got rationalized in the 1950's so 
the nominal voltages are 120/240 though due to the realities of 
delivering power, there is a wider acceptable range.

Charles