Now we're all going to need to GPS or use an atomic time standard to discipline our mechanical flip clocks like http://leapsecond.com/pages/atomic-nixie/
On 2011 Jun 25, at 19:14 , neutron spin wrote: > I think the original idea of grid frequency maintenance is when clocks were > purely mechanical before the digital era. They of course were just > synchronous A.C. motors that were terribly inaccurate without the > synchonization to the power grid's frequency. This also was before GPS and > sophisticated devices to reference to. The only concern to electric > utilities today is synchronizing the generators when bringing them online to > avoid motoring...but that does not require any great frequency tolerance > since it is all relative.... > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB.
