I believe you'll find the procedure detailed here, and as always use proper care when taking AC power measurements. Hope this helps!
Hi Hi-FiGuy.Verifying/measuring your home electrical phase and the phase of your equipment are two VERY different things and are measured separately.
Once you figure that out, there is very little risk of ending your life in finding true phase.
That article is alarming, please don't do that.
Well over 99.99% of all US homes have single phase power. It's industrial and commercial locations that have three phase power.
The word that you are looking for is polarity. Same thing goes for loudspeaker cable connections.
(...) Stereophonic: The plug style doesn't matter, in your country the transformer simple puts out a different voltage. You still have L, N, and SG. But I don't know if you have 2 poles per residence from a single phase. I'm sure you're on single phase, but couldn't speak for whether you have 1 or 2 poles. It may be different from country to country, but 1 pole looks to be a common thing in some other countries besides US.
There are several fundamental differences in mains distribution in Europe from the US practice. A grounded neutral wire is supplied by the mains company and we frequently have three separate phases (poles) 230V 50Hz in houses. Ground is local and separated from neutral - if you touch them it triggers the differential protection. Although we can have three phase sockets (5 wires, including ground) they are reserved to power appliances, such as cookers or three phase motors. In many countries in Europe (not the UK) sockets are not polarized, neutral and phase are not marked. Socket and plug insertion position is reversible, it is very simple to swap polarities. It is why I always test polarity for minimum current leakage to ground.
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