A cyclo converter works at a higher frequency than the final output frequency.
When you are pumping energy into an AC system you must do it with as little harmonic distortion as possible, these converters are 3 phase devices and the load can not just be regarded as simple, it appears as a very active load.
The current requirements being resistive or capacitive or inductive at anytime the cylco inverter can cope and still produce a relatively clean output and keep in sync.
The switching components used to be SCR but these days IGBT are used as they are easier to control.
Countrywide or continental wide power distribution with AC is a major industry and is not as easy as turning up a generator here and turning another down there to adjust load sharing across the distribution area.
Tesla and Edison both were inventors of that time. But Tesla was more of humanitarian, he did not value money as much as Edison did.
Tesla was constantly experimenting his ideas and machineries to simplfy and improvise the life of mankind with his technology.
Edison had his own sets of engineers working under him .
Tesla had few assistants as well to work with him in the laboratory.
But what is that makes Tesla more special is that his he can remember any complex say a device , principle , theory, solutions , equations , derivations , drawings etc in his head without a notebook or piece of paper.
He could even remember the pages and paragraphs of the books he read along with context.
Boardburner2:
Ther used to be a dc link between england and france to make best use of nuclear plants i think.
As far as I know, it still exists and is is in daily use.
It's used to help with peak loads, which are at different times in the UK and France (France is 1 hour ahead of the UK).
Henry_Best:
As far as I know, it still exists and is is in daily use.
It's used to help with peak loads, which are at different times in the UK and France (France is 1 hour ahead of the UK).
60 cycle AC can start heart fibrillation. That's usually what kills when a radio falls in the tub and a fuse blows, the heart getting knocked off its beat. The same is not true of 50 cycle AC.
12V can kill if the electrodes get under the epidermis and current flows like from one arm to the next.
Low DC volts at high current through the head is what the humane livestock killers use. I've seen a pig killed with one on TV (IIRC, on The F-Word) and it was fast and the pig didn't even squeak, just collapsed.
With static electricity I've seen the figure 10 Joules as enough to kill a human. Don't think I'd want to try a 1 Joule spark.
