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Article #21846Re: 50 Hz in Europe... Was the decision political?
From: Per Troelsen
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1989 16:24
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1989 16:24
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In article <2332@ektools.UUCP> kinsman@ektools.UUCP (Andrew A. Kinsman) writes: > > I was wondering if anybody on the net had any historical > information on why Europe is 50Hz? Did the standards > >Andrew Kinsman rutgers!rochester!kodak!ektools!kinsman When I studied Electrical Engineering I was told that the 50 Hz was chosen to make life easier for us engineers, because the term 2 * pi * f is so much easier to calculate for f=50 than for f=60 (everybody knows the value of 100 * pi, right ? ;-) Per Troelsen NCR Systems Engineering Per.Troelsen@Copenhagen.NCR.dk Copenhagen, Denmark ...!mcvax!dkuug!ncrsecp!per.troelsen Telephone: +45 38 330022 Telefax: +45 31 102362 -- Per Troelsen NCR Systems Engineering Per.Troelsen@Copenhagen.NCR.dk Copenhagen, Denmark ...!mcvax!dkuug!ncrsecp!per.troelsen Telephone: +45 38 330022 Telefax: +45 31 102362
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!sunic!dkuug!ncrsecp!pt From: pt@ncrsecp.Copenhagen.NCR.dk (Per Troelsen) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: 50 Hz in Europe... Was the decision political? Message-ID: <2278@ncrsecp.Copenhagen.NCR.dk> Date: 21 Dec 89 16:24:05 GMT References: <2332@ektools.UUCP> Sender: news@slyrf.dkuug.dk Reply-To: pt@ncrsecp.Copenhagen.NCR.dk (Per Troelsen) Organization: NCR Systems Engineering Copenhagen Lines: 22