Eli5: What’s the difference between a single phase electric current versus a 3 phased one?
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There are two types of power. One is like a steady pull and the other shakes the object to get it moving. 3 phase is the shaking kind.
By shaking instead of a steady pull, you can put much more energy into your wire (power loss issues) but with the trade off that your object is shaking violently.
Now, you aren’t REALLY shaking the object, that’s just a metaphor. What 3 phase does is get three people “shaking” objects, at the same speed when it was one person, but at different times so that they move like they are doing the wave.
In this example, the “output” only cares when an object is pushed forward, and as soon as another object is farther forward than the other two, will look at that one.
So your “power supply” goes from
– ^ v / ^ v / ^ v
To
– ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
Which makes for a smoother operation while still getting the larger power output than a steady push.
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