In sci.electronics.basics Spehro Pefhany wrote:
| On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 09:30:19 -0500, the renowned "BFoelsch"
| wrote:
|
|How would you hook up a 3-phase motor to run on 2 phases?
|
| A 3-phase motor has 3 wires. If you break one wire, it's running on
| single phase, not two. Break two wires and it tends to just sit there.

2 phase would not be the result of a failure of power source, but it could
happen if the internal windings/circuit on one of the phases opened up.
I've never seen that happen but I can't say it's impossible.

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