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What is a line or phase wire?

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13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Although you may hear the term 'phase wire' used in the field, the correct term* is 'line wire', or more properly, 'line conductor'**, and it is one of the three 'hot' (slang) conductors in a three-phase, three- or four-wire circuit (the fourth conductor being a neutral).

[*Previous editions of BS7671 Requirements for Electrical Installations, used the term 'phase' to describe the 'hot' conductor. With the publication of BS7671:2008, this reference has at last adopted the correct terminology, and now uses the word 'line' throughout.]

[**They are called 'line' conductors, because the voltages measured between them are termed 'line' voltages even though, in the case of a delta-connected source, they are numerically equal to the corresponding 'phase' voltages.]

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