Even small deviations from the nominal frequency value would damage synchronous machines and other appliances.
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In practice the nominal frequency is raised or lowered by a specific percentage to maintain synchronization.
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Actual transmission is ?17 Hz around the nominal frequency for main line and ?00 Hz for metro.
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For audio equipment, this is nearly always the nominal frequency range of human hearing, 20 Hz to 20 kHz.
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Synchroscopes operate only over a limited range of frequencies, a few per cent above and below the system nominal frequency.
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The frequencies may not vary more than ?.8 % from their nominal frequency, or the switching center will ignore the signal.
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In practice, the exact frequency of the grid varies around the nominal frequency, reducing when the grid is heavily loaded, and speeding up when lightly loaded.
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Most electric systems use alternating current with a nominal frequency of 50 or 60 Hz ( hertz ) to deliver energy produced by electrical generators to the electricity consumers.
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Our article on Utility frequency notes that utilities try to keep quite close to the nominal frequency so that synchronous clocks only deviate a few seconds from actual time.
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The oscillator is assumed to have a nominal frequency of \ nu _ \ mathrm { n }, given in cycles per second ( SI unit : hertz ).