Re: The insane progress nobody is talking about

Michael F. Stemper <michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:

On 20/06/2024 11.21, Paul S Person wrote:

On Thu, 20 Jun 2024 02:59:25 GMT, Random <random@who.cares> wrote:
 
I've seen a similar claim about timers that actually count
cycles-per-second: if those vary then the timer misperforms.

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This isn't really an issue in North America. According to NERC[1], frequency in
the Eastern Interconnection (EI) is above 59.972 Hz 95% of the time. This is
99.95% of nominal frequency, or an error of 28 mHz.

Unfortunately it used to be a huge problem for systems in North America that were
not on the grid, like film sets and music festivals running off generators.  Also
lots of people on boats.

These days the increasing use of inverter generators instead of synchronous
types means that we can use Hammond organs at music festivals again and expect
them to stay on pitch.
--scott
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