sherryl wrote:
> But in the spoken word I still hear people refer to it as cycle as in
> "sixty cycle". People don't call it Hertz.
Says who? I hear it being called Hertz all the time. Besides being
more universal, Hertz is easier and faster to say than cycles per
second.
>
> Just for the hell of it a checked a very old amp that I have. It states
> "60~" So at one time "~" meant cycle.
It is still used as shorthand, and it means Hertz now.
>
Jim Coon
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