Voltage too high - customers lamps go very bright then fail etc.
Frequency too low (voltage normal, or worse, high) - customers' transformers overheat. Most motors run slower in proportion to frequency.
Frequency too high (voltage normal, or worse, low) - Motor driven loads like fans and pumps run faster (% increase in load is twice increase in frequency e.g 5% frequency increase causes 10% load increase) and can be overloaded.
Everything "AC mains" electrical you buy is designed to work at nameplate voltages and frequencies with small variation from them. If distribution voltage/frequency were not coordinated with that, many would not work well or fail quickly.
Adjusted to be relevant to "power distribution system", meaning the ENTIRE transmission system used by utilities.
Voltage too low - Nothing works, everything eventually burns up
Voltage too high - Everything explodes, then nothing works
Frequency too low (voltage normal, or worse, high) - ALL
transformers overheat. AC motors run slower in proportion to
frequency, DC power supplies may not care.
Frequency too high (voltage normal, or worse, low) - Motor
driven loads like fans and pumps run faster (% increase in load is twice
increase in frequency e.g 5% frequency increase causes 10% load
increase) and can be overloaded.
Everything "AC mains" electrical you buy is designed to work at
nameplate voltages and frequencies with small variation from them. If
distribution voltage/frequency were not coordinated with that, many
would not work well or fail quickly.
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