Can you split a 220 circuit into two 110 circuits?

Answer 1

A 220 single phase has two hot wires and a ground wire (green). You need one of the hot wires, a netural wire and a ground wire to make a 110 circuit. Now the 220 has a hot and a ground but no netural so you have to make a netural out of a separate wire. There are a lot more things to know and do, IE. safety first always disconnect the power and lock it out. 220 usually has a double pole breaker, do you have fuses or breakers. 110 needs a single pole breaker. Electricity is dangerous if you do not know, do not try, it will kill you, get an electrican or someone who knows to show you ONLY. TOUGH LOVE LARRY....

Answer 2

All you have to do is install a 2 pole circuit breaker. You don't need a second 110v circuit, you can change a 110v circuit into a 220v circuit by removing the 110v circuit's neutral (white) from the neutral bus bar and connecting it to the second pole of the new 2 pole breaker. A single pole breaker feeds only one hot and returns on a neutral to the panel. a 2 pole breaker uses two hots, you would be using the old 'neutral' as the second hot from the breaker. Keep in mind this wil only be safe provided your breaker only changes from 1 pole to 2 pole and the actual breaker amperage doesn't change. So you could get a 15 amp or 20 amp 220v circuit in this manner. For anything larger than that, you would need to actually replace the wire with a larger size.

Answer 3

The only way is to have a 2 pole breaker installed in the main panel, Your main panel consist of 2 120 volt hot legs and a 2 pole breaker will catch 1 of each. You cannot get 220 volts off the same leg.

Answer 4

It could be done electronically but true two-phase supplies have not been used for around 100 years. A two-phase supply consists of two single-phase supplies with a phase-difference of a quarter-cycle between them.

Two-phase can provide a rotating magnetic field in an induction motor. Two-phase was replaced by three-phase in the early 20th century, and it also provides a rotating field, an advantage that is combined with other big advantages that two-phase does not provide.

A split-phse system, sometimes loosely described as two-phase, is a single-phase supply from a transformer with a centre-tapped secondary. The 220 v secondary has the centre-tap connected to neutral, and the two ends of the secondary supply two independent live 110 v supplies in opposite phase.

Split-phase is popular in the USA to provide a dual-voltage supply to houses, with 240 v between the two live wires and 120 v between either live wire and neutral.

Split-phase 240/480 v is used in rural locations in the UK for small groups of properties.

Answer 5

I think you need a step-up transformer to make 110 volt line into 220 volts.