[Jukebox-list] Grounding Issue

[Crispin Murray]

I think you¹ll find it was Tesla who came up with 60 Hz 117 v, whilst Edison
was  still persevering with 50 v DC - which unfortunately doesn't go very
far, is lossy in cables, awkward to generate and distribute. This is why
Tesla and Edison fell out, and why (I believe) Tesla's Power Station at
Niagra Falls is still there and Edison's isn't.
50 v DC is also just enough to kill you, which is unfortunate because I
think that was one of Edison main reason's for it.
I'm NOT having a knock at Edison btw (I know he is a US national hero),
after all it was him who started the whole record business off in the first
place, and where would we all be without that!

Crispin Murray



From: Ron Rich <ronnnrich at yahoo.com>
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Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 17:44:33 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: [Jukebox-list] Grounding Issue

Don't know if this is true--was once told that 60 Hz was chosen because at
anything less, humans can see it in an incandesent light (I know I can sense
it anytime I'm somewhere that uses 50 Hz). What I was told  was that
Westinghouse, who "invented" (while one of Edsion's "tinker-ers") the  60 Hz
AC that we use today,   hated the "flicker" of less than 60Hz.
  Ron Rich