Single Phase Electricity Support

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abracadabra

abracadabra

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i'm moving into a single rented individual house. Th problem here is it has only a SINGLE PHASE electricity.

My question here is, will this single phase be able to RUN, my television (40") plugged to DTH, washing machine (Top Loading 6.2Kg), Refrigerator (Single Door 186Ltr), PC (On UPS APC 1000Kva)? or is it better to find other options??

Suggest please

TIA!
 
I think it should be able to run all these. If you have the Electricity board card available for the rented house, kindly check the rated capacity of the connection obtained.

Be it single phase of 3 phase, i guess the domestic consumers are offered 3KVA to 5 KVA here in chennai. If you have a connection which is more than 1.5KVA you are good.
 
You are good for about 5000watt of consumption.So yes it can run all of the above+ 2000watt geyser and 1 ton AC(perhaps not all at once like if you switch on the heater in washing machine).
 
here in Delhi a single phase connection handles loads upto 10 KW, dont think your load is over that, anyways do check the meter/bill it should show the load that is authorised to be connected to the meter.
 
Arjun said:
A electrician told me that three phase consumes less electicity than single phase , is this true?
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Probably the electrician might be referring to the load on each phase than compared to all the load on one single phase...

Electricity consumption totally depends on the load that you use and it has no implication on whether its a single phase or 3 phase
 
AFAIK, the base rental change for 3 Phase connection is more than that of a single phase. So single phase might actually be an advantage if you don't have too much load.
 
here in Delhi
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, things are very different from those in Chennai. The definition of phase and the way electricity is supplied is quite archaic.

I can empathise.

The biggest disadavantage of sinlge phase is that when it goes, it goes. About half the time only one phase goes out at a time (or used to a few years ago) so some part of your house still has power. In my apartment they had installed a changeover to switch to the active phase or the one with the highest voltage automatically.
 
Go for 3 phase blindly if the cost per months works out to 100~200 bucks more. For uninteruptible supply, its a god send.

No wonder my uncle had 3 phase supply when all that was needed was single phase!
 
^ well..have used both three phase and single phase..never noticed a difference in reliability, when the power supply failed it failed on all three phases..here in Delhi i dont think u get a three phase connection unless the load is above 11 KW..not talking about old connections but the new ones.
 
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