I believe the primary reasons for GPS receivers for the power industry is power line fault location. They use time tagging to measure disturbances to locate a fault and it's accuracy directly determines its resolution.

On 9/11/2010 7:33 PM, jimlux wrote:
Stan, W1LE wrote:
If the odd harmonics were filtered out, would the zero crossing of the
60 (50) Hz fundamental
be stable enough ?


not to 30 ns <grin>


Interestingly, one of the markets that Symmetricom/TrueTime/Datum sells
into is GPS disciplined receivers used for power control. Power
transmission is managed by controlling relative phases in the system,
not to mention things like synchronizing generators.


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