BILL BAUER wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:
 BB> There is one more possibility.
 BB>  
 BB> What would happen if you had power fed in from the grid from 
 BB> two separate locations and from two different transformers with 
 BB> each "source" naturally being metered and you hooked the two 
 BB> sources together and in that manner drew power from both 
 BB> sources simultaneously? Would that change the rate or direction 
 BB> of meter rotation? Assuming that you are welding and the welder 
 BB> is plugged into the "right hand" side of the resulting circuit 
 BB> and nothing was plugged into the "left hand" side would the 
 BB> "left hand" meter be measuring some of the power or would the 
 BB> welder draw from both meters simultaneously or what the dickens 
 BB> would most likely be the result. Seems unlikely that they would 
 BB> both draw current at the same rate if there were say 30 to 50 
 BB> feet or more of separation between the meters due to the 
 BB> greater resistance of one of the runs.  There are a lot of fun 
 BB> and rather perplexing problems in this deal and the results 
 BB> should be kinda interesting.
This reminds me of a situation I encountered some years back...
I had an apartment,  and had been helping the guy downstairs do some wiring 
when he was finishing the basement.  Nothing unusual,  just lights,  and a 
few outlets.
At a point after that,  we went out and got a couple of window A/C units,  
and I had to change the one outlet from 220 to 110.  After running these for 
a short time,  he got *very* irate at me,  and I couldn't understand why.  It 
seems that both of our electric bills took a big jump.
The guy thought I had done something in the breaker box to hook this stuff up 
to his meter!
That place was wired a little strange,  although there were two meters,  
there was only one breaker box.  It seems that the former occupant of the 
upstairs apartment,  his brother-in-law,  since moved to Florida,  had done a 
bunch of the wiring in there,  and that there was a significant amount of 
stuff that was "cross-connected" accorting to the electrician that was called 
in to straighten it out.
Unfortunately the guy blamed *me* for this,  and our relations suffered from 
that point...  :-( 
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