[Hallicrafters] vibrator how it works

[Edward B Richards]

Hi Dick et al;

I could not agree more. I refuse to use Hertz except for certain
purposes. The designation "cycles per second" is a description of the
action, like "miles per hour". Hertz is meaningless unless you know what
it stands for......cycles per second. To change from a descriptive name
to some guy's name is the same mindset as changing "miles per hour" to
"Fords" to honor Henry Ford. The road signs would then say " maximum
speed 65 Fords". Again, meaningless unless you know what "Fords" stand
for.........miles per hour.

73 from Ed Richards K6UUZ
Simi Valley, CA. Home of Air 
Force 1 pavallion

On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 15:16:13 -0400 "Dick Blaney" <wb8mhe at bright.net>
writes:
> >From my experience, those old vibrater did not operate at 110-115 
> Hz.  Those 
> vibraters did reverse the current flow at approximately 120 times 
> per 
> second.  This is the approximately the equilivent to 60 CPS, (for 
> you 
> newbies, CPS, or the proper term, cycles per second, is the same as 
> Hz, and 
> since Heinrich Hertz never understood the concept of alternating 
> current, I 
> have no idea why the proper term, (CPS),  was ever replaced with 
> "Hz", since 
> Heinrich had no concept whatever of alternating current.)