Re: 220V 3 phase => 60 HP, how many amps?

It'll be the NEC down there. But this should be a moot point since California doesn't have enough surplus power left to run a 60 HP motor anyway. At least that's what I've been told. ;-)

If this is work in a commercial building, his insurance will insist upon it even if the local inspector lets it slide.

Hmm, that's a new one, I'll have to pass that onto the electricians at work tomorrow :) I know there is at least one that won't think it's funny, there is always a electrician with no sense of humor.

Industrial electricians seem to charge by the # of phases * volts.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

You've got to be careful that you don't get on an electrician's bad side. After all, it was an electrician that brought down the Communists in Eastern Europe.

Hmmm - does he have all of his fingers and toes? ;-)

CHeers! Rich

Yes how ever, I think some of them are a little numb these days due to using the old method of testing voltages. If any of you ever looked in an old electrical code book? you'll know what I mean :)

LOL, I'll have to remember that. That I didn't know :)

No sense of humor? That's SHOCKING, to say the least! ;-)

I haven't seen the book, but I remember some old electrical guy telling me that they'd check it with the backhand side of their fingers, so if your hand clenches up, it clenches up on air.

I worked at an extruder once, and one of the old line guys was telling me how he can judge the temperature of hot metal by how far up his finger it hurts.

Cheers! Rich

Ha. :)

I'll have to see if i can get a photo snap shot of that article. I know some one that has a copy of an old electrical code book with the article in it. it states on the line of "It is an accepted method to use the thumb and index finger to test for the existence of voltage " That may not be the exact wording but it's close.