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Well, yeah, damage from unbalanced loads IS because a single leg is being overloaded. As for how people do it, on a 5kw especially, it's really easy to overload as you're talking about 22 amps of 120 per leg, which is a couple small space heaters, before you're more than that. So most...

yes, it can be better utilized, but the net cost of the imbalance in fuel usage is extremely minimal compared to a perfectly balanced load, so in practical application, it's not really an issue.

So the example of 10 amps one leg 7 amps the other leg and 3 amps being "wasted"... The loss here is coming in the transformer, stepping down from line voltage to household voltage. The transformer is designed for 240V out, but has a tap in the middle of it for the 120 "split" that is...