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[AMPS] 50hz? 25Hz???

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Subject: [AMPS] 50hz? 25Hz???
From: stevengrant98@yahoo.com (steven grant)
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 08:21:00 -0700 (PDT)
Also  many hydro-electiric dams put out 25 hz.in the
"olden days"
73
               STEVEN GRANT   W4IIV

--- Larry Molitor <w7iuv@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> Downtown Chicago was one such place. Many elevators
> in the "loop" still ran 
> on 25 Hz until sometime in the sixties. I remember
> seeing, at the power 
> station where my father worked, the huge
> motor-generator that was used to 
> convert the locally generated 60 Hz to 25 Hz for
> distribution to select 
> customers. The conversion from 25 Hz to 60 Hz for
> "consumers" was done 
> before I arrived on the scene.
> 
> Larry - W7IUV
> 
> At 09:27 AM 4/9/01 -0400, Bob Duckworth wrote:
> 
> >Have a receiver here and power supply is marked
> 25Hz. USA made for USA
> >market.
> >Who knows when and where in USA 25Hz was so common
> that 'consumer
> >electronics'
> >was manufactured to operate on it.
> >
> >-bob
> >
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