[SML] 60Hz gear in a 50Hz World

Jerry Durand jdurand at interstellar.com
Fri Mar 2 02:11:47 UTC 2018


The 100V actually makes sense in an older time...

If you have a 120V, 60Hz induction motor that you want to run on 50Hz,
you need to lower the voltage to about 100V.

On 03/01/2018 05:18 PM, Bill Nelson via Stagecraft wrote:
>
> Eastern Japan, including Tokyo, is 50 Hz. Western Japan is 60 Hz. I suspect it
> is due to the same cause as in the early days of electricity in NYC -
> competing power companies. Edison's system was DC while Westinghouse used
> Tesla's 60 Hz AC system.
>
> Bill
>
>

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