Stuart Wheaton wrote:

I know about that. I lived in Japan once. 100vac and 200vac power distribution, half the
country was 50 cycle and the other 60 cycle back then.


Wes

A japanese physicist I know always said that failing to unitize the
power grid is the biggest thing that the Japanese people have against
the US occupation forces.


I always wondered why they even started out using to different frequencies.

Just dags and found it is still messed up. I was there in the late 70's.

http://www.geni.org/globalenergy/lib...citygrid.shtml

Wes