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		emiliobumachar on March 7, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Continuing frequency deviation in the Continental ... Additionally, it will be a region-locked clock by its very nature. We use 60Hz here in Brazil.

rowyourboat on March 7, 2018 [–]

When moving from the US to Europe, I had the opposite problem. I had brought along a number of devices that I powered off a transformer (230V -> 115V) here, among them an alarm clock. Which worked off the AC frequency and thus was losing 10 minutes every hour on 50Hz.

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