Talk:Phase splitter

U.S. patent 5,084,686 is called a phase splitter but 90 degrees apart instead of 180. — Omegatron 02:39, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Why is this article talking about puny guitars, instead of mighty locomotives?

This article has incorrect content. The "phase splitter" is a rotor-electro-mechanical part of pre-WW2 american electric railroad locomotives, which converted the 11kV/25Hz single phase AC input from the overhead wire into lower voltage, 3-phase AC for use by the asynchronous traction motors. The system has gone out of use by circa 1957. 92.52.242.149 (talk) 21:10, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

you've answered your own question. 1957?

in electronics, the technique is very much still (ahem) in current use.

there may well still be a requirement to produce three-phase from single-phase in (say) the context of power tools & whatnot, but it is vastly out-numbered by the applications in signal measurement & amplification, where it can be achieved by transistor, vacuum tube or even a simple transformer, with no moving parts.

duncanrmi (talk) 13:15, 6 November 2025 (UTC)