I once heard a story about the electric companies constantly adjusting the generators so they would average 60 Hz over the long term.
If for any reason the generators slowed down, clocks all over town lost time. The clocks had AC motors inside. Therefore the electric company would speed up the generators for a while until everyone's clock regained the correct time. A good story to entertain dinner guests with.
However someone in the know told me that's no longer necessary in the US. Today power companies are able to maintain 60 Hz exactly.
There's a pressing reason. We have a nationwide grid that absolutely must be kept in synch. Any power plant that departed the slightest bit from the standard would start producing molten copper instead of kilowatts.
However that story still may be true in smaller communities, although I understand electric clocks have been transitioning to crystal-controlled time, same as our electric wristwatches.
( I think you really meant SPED UP here?)it was a hypothetical time warp bubble or somesuch, that encompassed the entire town unbeknownst, and slowed down all the vibrating crystals in those appliances.
...non motorized clocks, which we know have crystals in them, that have a certain frequency. Now are they going to run faster if the power supplied is of a higher frequency?...Taking into account that IMHO ALL electronic clocks made after 1985 or so use crystals, is it still likely that a whole village will experience speeding up electronic clocks (alarms, vcr, microwave, dvr, etc etc) because of power freq. being too high?...
I wrote:
"it was a hypothetical time warp bubble or somesuch, that encompassed the entire town unbeknownst, and slowed down all the vibrating crystals in those appliances."
( I think you really meant SPED UP here?)
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