I live in a place where the house ac voltage is 220. I have some appliances with 110vs. So to obtain 110vs, I use one line of the 220vs and the other line I supply by connection to a metal rod driven into the garden ground. That gets me a 110vs ac current.
The problem now is that the power from this kind of a 110vs is very limited. When I use two 100 watts bulbs, each has the brilliance of half of using only one: namely, two bulbs do not give you more brilliance than one.
Without using a transformer of the proper wattage, but just with the same approach I have employed, what can be done to have more power from my kind of set-up? Should I rig up the other line by linking it to the metalic plumbing system, to have more metal contact with ground? Is that why my neighbor seems to have more 110vs power with his set-up?
Thanks for any suggestions.
Susma Rio Sep