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Originally posted by Sir Krustin:
I suspect you just crossed both "sides" of your house line. One black was probably 180 degrees out of phase with the other - resulting a dead short at 240v instead of 120v (this is how you get 240 for the stove and dryer)
You also see this kind of arrangement in kitchen split circuits.
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how are the waveform phases altered? i didn't realise that was possible... well in a simple device like UPS.