[142416] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Wacky Weekend: NERC to relax power grid frequency strictures
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Sat Jun 25 10:51:01 2011
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 10:49:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110625043241.GF25848@pokute.pelzi.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jussi Peltola" <pelzi@pelzi.net>
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 06:29:14PM -0400, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> > This is gonna be fun, no?
>
> If your definition of fun is spending a year watching an old microwave
> clock lose or gain a few minutes.
>
> I don't see how this has anything to do with syncing two generators.
> The grid is in sync, and if the frequency of the grid changes (as it does
> all the time) it will stay in sync. It has nothing to do with the
> absolute frequency.
Perhaps I read the piece incorrectly, but it certainly sounded to *me* like
the part that was hard was not hitting 60.00, but *staying in sync with
others*...
Cheers,
-- jra
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