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Re:How to ramp up a factory consuming a lot of energy? by asdfman123 on Monday June 19, 2023 @01:17PM (#36393732)
Imagine you've got two cables coming into your factory. One is 500 meters longer than the other. That would mean that the sine waves are 0.01% out of sync.

I'm pretty sure for home electronics the phase difference doesn't even matter that much. Everything sensitive seems to be converted to DC anyway.

Maybe it matters in large industrial applications, I have no idea. But I also imagine in their situation it's probably pretty straightforward to clean up the power supply.

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Re:How to ramp up a factory consuming a lot of energy? by gooseyman on Monday June 19, 2023 @11:58PM (#36399530)
Would be fun to see this turn up as a case study for two identical assembly lines driven by motors. One on the “fast” frequency and the other on the slow.

In my imagination, the specialists are brought in only to learn that the RPMs in one motor were juiced because someone didn’t practice cable management

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Re:How to ramp up a factory consuming a lot of energy? by asdfman123 on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @02:38PM (#36408546)
The electrical phases would be the exact same frequency still, 60 hz.
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