For the radio frequency device, see Frequency mixer.
The Sakuma frequency converter station is one of the stations that links Japan's two grids (see Electricity sector in Japan § Transmission).
A frequency changer or frequency converter is an electronic or electromechanical device that converts alternating current (AC) of one frequency to alternating current of another frequency. The device may also change the voltage, but if it does, that is incidental to its principal purpose, since voltage conversion of alternating current is much easier to achieve than frequency conversion.
Traditionally, these devices were electromechanical machines called a motor-generator set.[1] Also devices with mercury arc rectifiers or vacuum tubes were in use. With the advent of solid state electronics, it has become possible to build completely electronic frequency changers. These devices usually consist of a rectifier stage (producing direct current) which is then inverted to produce AC of the desired frequency. The inverter may use thyristors, IGCTs or IGBTs. If voltage conversion is desired, a transformer will usually be included in either the AC input or output circuitry and this transformer may also provide galvanic isolation between the input and output AC circuits. A battery may also be added to the DC circuitry to improve the converter's ride-through of brief outages in the input power.
Frequency changers vary in power-handling capability from a few watts to megawatts.
^Blalock, Thomas J., "The Frequency Changer Era: Interconnecting Systems of Varying Cycles Archived 2007-06-07 at the Wayback Machine". The history of various frequencies and interconversion schemes in the US at the beginning of the 20th century.
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