It will be burning up motors,transformers,electronics etc...
Especially large power users like manufacturing...
Thank you. That is my thought too. Most, if not all, electric motors are 'optimized' for 60hz (Back in my day we said 60 cycle) are they not?
That means your refrigerator and other such appliances will cease to operate properly.
It will be burning up motors,transformers,electronics etc...
A few years ago I was trying to figure out why the air conditioning motor outside would make howling (bearings) sounds at certain times of the day (between 4PM-8PM). My theory was that the voltage or the frequency was off standard and it would cause the motor to heat up because it was operating outside of its design specifications. The heating up would swell the metal parts so that they are mismatched and the bearings would begin to seize.
My neighbor, a master electrician, confirmed certain aspects of that thinking in that A/C motors are designed to operate at certain frequencies and become inefficient creating more heat when pushed outside its comfort zone in voltage.
The bottom line is, yes it will damage equipment, but what is even more puzzling to me is that it causes equipment to run far less efficiently using more energy to perform the same amount of work. Why would the government advocate a useless policy that only produces less efficiency and more failures? Then I realized that we are talking about the united States government and the Malevolent Kakistocracy that it has devolved into.