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[AMPS] 50hz? 25Hz???

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Subject: [AMPS] 50hz? 25Hz???
From: Peter_Chadwick@mitel.com (Peter Chadwick)
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 14:46:47 +0100
Bob says:

>Who knows when and where in USA 25Hz was so common that 
>'consumer electronics' was manufactured to operate on it.

Don't know about 'consumer', but the latest Washington DC - Boston railway
electrification  has some 25 Hz over part of its length, if I remember the
article in IEEE VTS News correctly. That line has 3 or 4 different
electrification systems, requiring automatic switching in the trains.


73

Peter G3RZP

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