CLOCKS “GO SLOW”
POWER STATION TROUBLE. A CURIOUS EFFECT. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, June 10. Trouble in one of the main switches of the combined Waikare-Mangahao electric supply system at 8.41 p.m. cut out Waikare and threw the whole load on the Mangahao station, considerably overloading it and causing a general drop in voltage. One curious effect would be noticed by many users of electric clocks which, in consequence of the drop in frequency, lost four minutes in a halfhour. There is no need to alter the clocks as the engineers at Mangahao are putting them right by the simple method of running the generators a trifle fast until the lost minutes are made up, after which the station will revert to its 50 cycles per second.
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Southland Times, Issue 22039, 12 June 1933, Page 8
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128CLOCKS “GO SLOW” Southland Times, Issue 22039, 12 June 1933, Page 8
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