[time-nuts] Optical time sync
Tom Van Baak
tvb at LeapSecond.com
Fri May 2 05:06:19 UTC 2008
> Now these are quite impressive but what really caught my eye was one
>> with a Garmin hockey puck GPS antenna on top of it, I thought 'what's
>> this?' I inquired of the sales rep lady at the booth and she informed
>> me that beacons for wind farms are required to have sychronized beacon
>> lights.
>
> Neat hack. Thanks.
>
> I assume a GPS on top of a windmill has a great view of the sky. How much
> trouble do they get from multi-path off the blades? Are they metal or
> fiberglass?
I wonder if the blades also are in sync, either amongst
themselves, or with GPS, or with the power grid frequency.
/tvb
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