[Jukebox-list] Grounding Issue

[Jens Hultgren]

Just curious - how would I die from 50V DC?

     ;o) Jens

On 5/6/06, Crispin Murray <crispin at guilde.co.uk> wrote:
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>
> 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
>
>
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