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One more thought: We've discussed 25Hz AC for railroads and the like.
I believe I recall hearing somewhere that when Edison finally understood
that Westinghouse/Tesla had won, he began producing 16Hz AC. Talk about
power supplies with iron!
Mike Freeman < K 7 U I J >
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 [log in to unmask] wrote:
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> Martin wrote:
> >As for why aircraft use 400 HZ, you are all right but there is
> >even one more reason. While I don't know why the exact number of
> >400 Hertz, the biggest reason for using a higher frequency is the
> >size of inductors such as what you have in motors and transformers.
> <snip>
> >I think that we'd get pretty tired of hearing that mosquito
> >whine everywhere very quickly.
> I get my share of aeronautical mobiles check in with me when I'm ncs
> for the Maritime mobile service net and you always hear a hint of that
> 400 hz and its harmonics.
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> Also note that on hf a lot of the aero comms sound like there's a
> little rf feedback into the audio. Harder to get a good ground up
> there <grin>.
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> 73 de nf5b
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> Richard Webb
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