In message <[email protected]>, cook michael writes:

>I don't buy it. Makes a nice urban myth though. Incandescent sources 
>don't flicker like fluorescent sources and the Skyhawk user manual does 
>not recommend charging in front of flouresecent tubes to maintain accuracy.

Not to mention that grid frequency is nowhere near as stable in the
claimed tau as a 32.768kHz xtal...

Now, if they averaged for a month, then maybe...

And before anybody claims they do:  You do realize that mains may
have the same frequency, but not the same phase from one 3-phase
transformer to the next ?


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