Comment on Does the 50Hz & 60Hz difference matter at all or not?
farmgineer@nord.pub 3 days ago
Japan is split and has both 50 and 60hz grids. Modern products don’t have any issues with this (voltage is 100v typically). In the older days, this was an issue for things with clocks and motors from what I understand, but I didn’t move here u til the 2010s
kELAL@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
It helps a lot that appliances for the Japanese domestic were designed to cope with different frequencies (for better or worse) from day one, as it’s cheaper than having two almost identical product ranges. Motor and transformer windings designed to tolerate the extra current when running @ 50Hz, or switchable winding taps if efficiency mattered. Different pulleys / switchable gears for things where speed matters, like record players and electro-mechanical clocks.