In home electrical whats the difference between 110w and 220w?

Question

how does 220w work from the fuse box? How is it ran? When you hook up 220 do you have to run both hots from the same side?? why?

Answer 1

for 220 volts you have two 110 hot lines and a neutral coming to your box....a 110 breaker only uses one line of this to send power to whatever you have connected to it and then the power is returned on your neutral....a 220 breaker uses one of each of the two lines to send 220 volts to whatever you have connected to it the neutral does not complete the circuit as it does in a 110 volt circuit.....in a breaker box each slot that a breaker can connect to the power is alternately picked up from one line and then the other line....so slot 1 would use line 1..slot 2 would use line 2 ..slot 3 uses line 1...slot 4 uses line 2 etc etc...a 110 volt breaker only uses one slot.and a 220 volt breaker uses two slots..

Answer 2

Sorry but spliceing 2 110 v wont give you 220 unless they are on differt phase's but they are right you must be talking volts and not watts 220 most called 240v is standard line voltage in comeing into your house it is split into 2 phase's phase A and phase B course there are others 3 phase 4 wire etc

when it comes into your panel it is split on one bus and the other bus andfrom there all your breakers snap in one way or the other than you have single pole breakers and double pole breakers from 15 amp and up most common in a reg house will have a max of a 200 amp (main breaker) if you have a 200 amp service each bus in the panel will hold a max of 200 amps and than it goes out to all of your house ckts from 15 amp and up depends on what it is runing

Answer 3

110 Volt systems are connected, HOT, (usually black), to the center buss bar, and NEUTRAL, (usually white), to the aluminum buss bar on the side of the breaker box. The neutral is also referred to as a common sometimes, because all the white wires wind up connected to each other in the buss bar, while the hot, blacks, are connected to their individual breakers and circuits. 110 Volts is one black, one white to a circuit, while 220 Volts requires two blacks, (each carrying 110 - 2 x 110 = 220), and one white, neutral per circuit. Each black to the center neutral will read 110, across the two blacks will read 220. Each hot comes from a different side bar of the circuit box. If one side blows you wind up with 110 and the machine you're running doesn't function properly. As to why, that's just the way electricity works.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

With 110 you have two wires and a ground, with 220 you have three wires and a ground. If your breaker box has 220 coming to it, use a twin or double breaker. Two wire to the breaker and one to the neutral bar one to the ground bar. Seeing as how you ask this question, don't even think of doing this yourself, get an electrician..

Answer 6

Assuming you mean 110v and 220v.......

110 has a hot, neutral, ground

220 has 2 hots and a ground. (One hot from each phase)

They have to be on the same side of the panel so you can use a 2-pole breaker. If one side overloads, it trips both sides of the breaker, killing both hots.

Answer 7

Let me put it this way. I hooked up my own central air.
I soon learned I had no 220 only 110 in the whole house. Bummer. So I went to the breaker box and spliced two 110's together and walla It worked. Dont plug a lamp into 220.Thats the best I can explain it.

Answer 8

The difference between 220 and 110 is 110. Ha Ha
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http://www.electrical-online.com/articles.htm