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A connection is one or the other, star or delta in a three-phase system. Delta has the three loads connected between the live lines, while star has the loads connected from the live wires to a neutral point.

In the power supply industry delta connections are normally used at high voltage because the circuits are three-phase 3-wire, with equal currents in all three phases.

At low voltage (below 1000 v) the circuits are usually three-phase 4-wire using a star-connected transformer secondary, which allows a lot of separate single-phase loads to be supplied, each one between one of the live lines and the 4th neutral wire.

That is how power is supplied to a group of houses.

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