Howdy all. Need some of you guys' expert electrical advice. Just built a new electric brewery in my garage. I had the nema 14-50 outlet installed with 50A GFCI breaker and treated myself to 3 new Spike kettles and the Auber Brewbuddy II. So far couldn't be happier. Runs great, brewed twice without a hitch. But I may have committed a huge blunder! I live in a newer multi-unit building (built 2005) in a townhouse with my own electric meter and panel and my own 2-car garage. I assumed that my house had 240V service since it is newer but after some research it seems each townhouse has 120/208V single phase power. I noticed on the Brewbuddy voltmeter I was only showing between 208-212V when running. I checked my Nema 14-50 outlet and sure enough it reads 208V between the two hot wires. Each hot wire vs. neutral or ground shows the normal 120V.
So since everything seems to function normally I assume the electronics in the control panel will work ok but I'll only get 208V to the heating elements instead of 240V. But I'm no expert when in comes to the inner workings of these panels. I called Auber tech support and they seemed to agree but of course offered no guarantees. They said they don't test their panels with this type of power setup yadda yadda and can't be sure how stable my building power is and so forth.
Yeah my mistake... So I guess the question is: is this going to continue to work or am I looking at some future problems?
I'll enclose a few pics. Thanks for any replies.
So since everything seems to function normally I assume the electronics in the control panel will work ok but I'll only get 208V to the heating elements instead of 240V. But I'm no expert when in comes to the inner workings of these panels. I called Auber tech support and they seemed to agree but of course offered no guarantees. They said they don't test their panels with this type of power setup yadda yadda and can't be sure how stable my building power is and so forth.
Yeah my mistake... So I guess the question is: is this going to continue to work or am I looking at some future problems?
I'll enclose a few pics. Thanks for any replies.
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