As for monitoring 60 Hz, I was doing some on line research, and found some
interesting power line frequency meters at:
http://www.laurels.com/frequency.htm
Surprisingly affordable (less than $300).
Tom Frank
For this experiment you want an [accumulated] phase error meter,
not a line frequency meter. Remember, NERC is not dramatically
changing the 60 Hz frequency; the proposal is simply to eliminate
the steering that used to keep the cycles roughly aligned with UTC.
So a 3 or 4 or 5 digit sampling frequency counter will not reveal
the change. But over hours or days a mains connected kitchen
clock compared with your cell phone, will. In general, to see the
effect, you want something that faithfully tracks the phase and
compares it to a reference that's at least 1 ppm accurate.
Another approach, the one I use, is to continuously compare
60 Hz phase against UTC using a TIC, handling rollovers, etc.
/tvb
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