220V electricity and 110V

[robstaples]

I'm sorry I didn't write more in #27. If you purchase the step down transformer, you or your electrician wires it to the 220v well supply at the pressure switch. Then just mount it on the wall and plug into it for 110 v. With an additional 3way plug, you plug your watersoftener in to one and a light into the other outlet. They come in sizes , but the 500 watt is $50.00. The 110 v secondary is isolated and this setup will be safe and legal

500W UP/DOWN TRANSFORMER | All Electronics Corp.

 

[buickanddeere]

As a water well professional I see this all the time. Most of these setups do not use a neutral. They instead come off one leg of the pressure switch and tie the neutral in with the ground. Not legal but it works. If you have a dedicated neutral you're good to go.

Thanks for telling the "know nothings" and the " I don't care as long as it works" types to go ahead and run neutral current on the ground system. This is how electricians get unexpected shocks, phantom equipment operation occurs and livestock are tingle voltage shocked.

 

[buickanddeere]

We can pretty much expect the hydro to go out every time the wind blows. Seriously it is a weekly occurrence. Ontario Hydro/Hydro One in this area is THE most unreliable, over priced utility we have.

An example for you; I came home in a rain storm, the hydro was on. The rain stopped, the sun came out and the hydro went off. The wires got hit with a ray of sunshine. Our outages last anywhere from 1-14 hours.

It's going to get worse before it gets better with the Dalton and Whyne green energy farce.

 

[buickanddeere]

A properly speced fuse for the application will limit fault current to lower levels than a breaker and operate faster than a breaker .

 

[aczlan]

One could also skip the 120v step and use a 220VAC to 24VDC power supply (such as: AC 110-220V DC 24V 1A 24W Switch Power Supply Transformer for LED Strip Light: Science Lab Power Supply Units: Amazon.com: Industrial & Scientific ) and a 220V capable light (such as: LE® 10W Super Bright Outdoor LED Flood Lights, 100W Halogen Bulb Equivalent, Waterproof, 660lm, Warm White, 3000K, Security Lights, Floodlight - - Amazon.com )

Aaron Z

 

[Looking4new]

It's going to get worse before it gets better with the Dalton and Whyne green energy farce.

No Chit! don't forget that Wynne sold off part of Hydro and what they are not saying is that the Ontario goobermint backed/lent the money to the buyers...The union.

 

[Looking4new]

A properly speced fuse for the application will limit fault current to lower levels than a breaker and operate faster than a breaker .

THAT is exactly why I am using fuses in this case.
I also will NEVER run a common to ground. I may be dumb, but I am not stupid, I don't think.
The step down transformer makes something else to go wrong/break. I think with the transformer already in the circuit for the water softener (supplied with it) that the 2 110V circuits off the 220 legs will work. I can put a lower value LED light in the lamp, it is only for close up work around the area. None of the other basement lights will be on during an outage except for the light over the sump pump, which will be wired in on another 110V circuit.
The genny has 4 of 120V gfi's, 1 of 125V 3 wire twist lock and the 125/250V 4 wire twist lock.
2 of the gfi's I am not using.

 

[ultrarunner]

I would rather have fuses in this application. The rest of the house is stab lock breakers. My shed is fuses as well.

I still own property with both Edison Fuse Main(s) and Cartridge Fuses... really very common around here up to the early 1960's...

 

[Looking4new]

Thanks for the advice guys. I am still going to get an electrician to look over my shoulder and tell me what goes where. I am going to get the rest of the parts in about an hour.

 

[buickanddeere]

No Chit! don't forget that Wynne sold off part of Hydro and what they are not saying is that the Ontario goobermint backed/lent the money to the buyers...The union.

Far worse are the billions paid to subsidize wind, solar and Natural Gas. Then pay NY & Michigan to take the surplus power. The General Public seem to be unaware of the Auditor General's report.