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Re:Baltic countries disconnect from the Russian power grid by cf100clunk on Friday February 07, 2025 @01:03PM (#42975570)
Yep, the government had to go house-by-house, building-by-building replacing all electrically powered devices that could not be adapted. Thankfully it also happened early in the era of electronic devices.
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Re:Baltic countries disconnect from the Russian power grid by sidewndr46 on Friday February 07, 2025 @03:24PM (#42977057)
it's substantially easier to run modern electronics off random frequency power than other stuff like an induction motor. A typical power supply is rated for 47 Hz- 63 Hz. But it'll happily run off almost anything higher than 10 hz and lower than 1000 hz.

universal motors in particular do not care at all about frequency

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