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 ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
