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Now locomotive power engineers can even have fun turning bugs (harmonics in the audio range) into features (solfege):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iLrXDU31Dg



For anyone else wondering what's going on there, certain types of semiconductors have a minimum off time. They have to work around this by varying the frequency of the PWM. Usually it results in a kind of space age sound as they accelerate. In this case they have chosen something more interesting.




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