electro-Physics: 17.3409 volts

[Tore S Bekkedal]

On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 18:03 -0500, shoppa_classiccmp at trailing-edge.com
wrote:

> For not-so-heavy transformers, higher frequencies are desirable, thus
> the 400 Hz AC power on military aircraft.
> 
> The classic way of converting from AC at one frequency to another was
> motor-generator sets,  (And to convert AC to DC you used rotary
> converters...)  Modern implemenations use solid-state electronics.

Twisting this back on topic, the IBM 650 had a power distribution that
made something like 133Hz AC or even higher.
-- 
Tore S Bekkedal <toresbe at ifi.uio.no>