Pioneering Charlotte civil rights attorney Julius Chambers dies. Pioneering civil rights lawyer Julius Chambers â a crusader for equality whose landmark cases led to integrating Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools â died late Friday after months of declining health.
As it gets closer to your house it goes to a sub station where the voltage is lowered and then sent on its way. It finally arrives in your neighborhood and is sent to a transformer where the voltage is lowered to 220 volts. This is what comes into your house and goes to the circuit breaker box. The next section describes a bit of technical mumbo jumbo about sine waves and phase relationships.
Typical residential circuits are 1-pole (120-volt) for lights and outlets, or 2-pole (240-volt) for appliances such as an electric range, dryer or water heater. Finally, load centers are rated in terms of the maximum number of circuits they will accommodate.