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Imagine you've got two cables coming into your factory. One is 500 meters longer than the other. That would mean that the sine waves are 0.01% out of sync. I'm
by asdfman123 3y ago
Imagine you've got two cables coming into your factory. One is 500 meters longer than the other. That would mean that the sine waves are 0.01% out of sync.
I'm pretty sure for home electronics the phase difference doesn't even matter that much. Everything sensitive seems to be converted to DC anyway.
Maybe it matters in large industrial applications, I have no idea. But I also imagine in their situation it's probably pretty straightforward to clean up the power supply.
- gooseyman 3y agoWould be fun to see this turn up as a case study for two identical assembly lines driven by motors. One on the “fast” frequency and the other on the slow. In my imagination, the specialists are brought in only to learn that the RPMs in one motor were juiced because someone didn’t practice cable management
- asdfman123 3y agoThe electrical phases would be the exact same frequency still, 60 hz.