Comments by "John h Palmer" (@johnhpalmer6098) on "The US electrical system is not 120V" video.

  1.  @jwalker7567  I don't think that's correct. We have split phase 240 in the US, which is for dryers, stoves etc that need a full 240V. For my dryer (electric), the heating element needs both sides of the 240V to work and I don't think we even have 10Amp in new construction/electrical upgrades now either. My house is old, initially built in 1908 and likely didn't have electricity initially and may have had gas lighting for a while in the beginning, maybe a hybrid of both. Anyway, 2 additional bedrooms were added to augment the single bedroom it had in the mid 80's and the electrical service was upgraded to modern 200A/240V service but using a Federal Pacific circuit breaker panel which were a known issue even then, but still installed in thousands of homes at the time. I had it replaced when I bought the place in 2016 for the reason of it being an unsafe design. Anyway, the dryer requires both halves of the 120V, though technically, it's really 122V per side so 244V total to make the heating element work, so when the timer began to go, half the time I got no heat. Then the following year, the start switch for the dryer motor went bad and it killed one side of the split phase 240V, disabling the heating element to even operate. Once I cleaned the contacts and put it all back together, it's been working just fine.
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