> This has always perplexed me: surely if you're connecting
> across 2 of 3 phases (something we don't do in the
> UK) then the voltages are at 120 degrees phase angle to each
> other, so you will be getting a distorted
> waveform, not a sine wave?

Get hold of some software which will draw graphs (or even goldwave or
something similar which lets you generate waveforms on screen) and try it.
That's how I finally figured out how it worked- draw the 3 phases as 3 sine
waves, then try various sums of them to get a feel for what it looks like.

Nigel
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