A northern European installation would not have the large number of small single phase motors for air conditioning.
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It is possible that some very fancy three phase motors are internally six-phase motors ( using the same technology as a single phase motor ).
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Unlike a single phase motor, a three phase motor doesn't have a capacitor to rotate the incoming power and create a second phase ( technically, single-phase motors convert the power to 2 phase power internally and are really 2 phase motors ).
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Larger single phase motors are split-phase motors and have a second stator winding fed with out-of-phase current; such currents may be created by feeding the winding through a capacitor or having it receive different values of inductance and resistance from the main winding.
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But, if the polyphase motor was not selected and it was desired to use a single phase motor on polyphase service, then multiple machines had their motor and heater loads'balanced'so that any 2 or 3 machines would appear to the electric utility as a balanced polyphase load; in any event the Linotype company would supply whatever drive was necessary, even using kerosene heaters and line-shaft operated machines, in locales without electricity.