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Does wire length difference create phase shift?
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[QUOTE="DaveE, post: 6570374, member: 644223"] The short answer is that your sort of paranoid. The concept is absolutely correct, but you're way off in magnitude. If we assume that electricity travels at about 1/3 the speed of light in wires (a crude, but not unreasonable guess). Then the wavelength at 60Hz is roughly 2 million meters. So you can make a 1[SUP]o[/SUP] phase shift if your wire lengths differ by about 5km. That's why you can't find any info about it. No one worries about this at 50/60Hz. Engineers worry a lot about this stuff at very high frequencies. [/QUOTE]
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