American manufacturers are importing European and Asian industrial equipment at an accelerating pace. The problem: that equipment is designed for 50Hz power grids, while the US operates at 60Hz.

I was recently contacted by Steve Ensign, a design engineer at Ensign Corporation, designers and manufacturers of transformers and power supplies. Steve wanted to point out the importance of ...

Sony’s newly-launched PS Plus service includes PSOne games as part of its Premium tier, but reports have come in that some of them run at PAL 50Hz. If you’re wondering what that all means, well, back ...

The disparity is a holdover from the days of standard definition TVs which typically used the 50Hz PAL standard in Europe, but the 60Hz NTSC standard in the US. It meant that footage shown on European ...