Visit our 50 60 hz products to explore frequency and voltage converters up to watts. Synchronous clocks the vast majority of mechanical electric clocks depend critically on the mains power line frequency. A 60Hz clock operated at 50Hz will lose 10 minutes per hour!
The converse is also true. A 50Hz clock say, from England operating on 60Hz mains power line will run 12 minutes fast per hour. Either way, if the mains power line frequency used to power a clock is not the frequency it was designed for, the clock will be of no use.
The answer is the super high-precision frequency and voltage conversion provided by compact and affordable Chronos. Audio turntables and tape players — anything with an AC operated synchronous motor. A turntable designed for use in Germany, for example, where mains frequency is 50Hz, will operate too fast if brought over to the USA and powered by 60Hz mains power.
For demanding audio applications, most folks prefer either Thor or Hercules. But we have other products as well, for lower and higher power applications.
Hammond organs — used in professional bands will run out of tune if the frequency is not exactly 60Hz. Can you imagine how far off it would be if operated at 50Hz? Many are operated on stages constructed for a particular performance, away from a mains power line source, where portable generators are used to create the power for the stage equipment.
The frequency depends on the speed of the engine driving the generator, and this will invariably drift. It drives musicians crazy. Model railroad train s transformer designed for use in the United States typically have a V AC 60Hz power requirement.
Unfortunately, this leaves insufficient power to drive the locomotive and accessories, leading to numerous malfunctions.
If this recommendation is ignored, eventually the transformer may overheat due to operating at 50Hz instead of 60Hz. The step-down transformer alone, which only converts voltage, will be insufficient. For the above model railroad example, consider Thor for systems under watts, and Hercules for systems up to watts. There are other issues to worry about when operating equipment at the wrong frequency other than the speed issue.
Useful tool: Units Conversion. Of the over countries listed below, most use VAC. Others use between VAC. Some countries, including the United States, use dual voltages. The voltage and frequency of AC electricity varies from country to country throughout the world. Convert v, v, v 50Hz to v, UK, Australia, Electric motors, both single and three phase, are designed for running on a specified power frequency. But sometimes we may use a Get a Price Sitemap. It is helpful to remember that a current is a flow of electrons and electrons have mass therefore current is a mass of flowing electrons!
The higher the voltage, the more work an electric current can do. If no voltage exists, a current will not flow and work cannot be done. The current produced by sources of electricity comes in two main forms: direct current DC and alternating current AC. Direct current is current that flows in one direction through a circuit. For example, a battery produces direct current because the battery's terminals always remain the same; the negative terminal does not change to a positive terminal, and vice versa.
Hence, the current will always flow from the negative terminal of the battery toward the positive terminal. Alternating current is current whose flow in a circuit periodically reverses direction. It is produced by a source of electricity whose positive and negative terminals switch or alternate back and forth.
In other words, one terminal will switch from positive to negative and back to positive, while the other terminal will switch from negative to positive to negative. Alternating the terminals from positive to negative cause the current to flow in one direction, then in the reverse direction, and back to its original direction, and so on. Electrical generators in power plants throughout the United States produce alternating current that reverses direction 60 times per second.
The unit used to describe the rate at which current alternates is the cycle per second, or hertz HZ. In general, power is defined as the rate at which work is done, or energy is used, per unit of time. Electric power specifically refers to the rate in which a source of electricity produces energy, or refers to the rate in which an electrical device, appliance, or piece of equipment converts electrical energy into other forms of energy.
The faster a source of electricity such as a generator produces electrical energy, the greater its power output. The faster an electrical device such as a light bulb converts electrical energy in light and heat energy, the greater its power consumption.
0コメント