Power System in Japan
Although there were synchronous electric clocks “all over the place,” none of them ever told the right time in Japan, comments a New Zealand airman in a letter written from Iwakuni, near Hiroshima, to a friend in Christchurch. “Apparently the universal Japanese power sysJ tern is two-phase 100 volt of 60-60 cycles,” he states. “The low high tension seem to be 3-3.5 k.v., and the .jwerage wiring is lethal. Except on Mw station, where some safety measare taken, one finds the odd 3.5 k.v. line draped casually over a stick down to an enclosed transformer which delivers the 100 volts.”
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 96, 8 July 1946, Page 5
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