[time-nuts] Re: Power line timing -- setting a clock

[Peter Reilley]

What is described here is an independent system not a local utility 
connected
to a larger grid.
As part of a large grid, imagine that you are an operator at a power plant.
Your generator is capable of X watts.   The total capacity of the grid may
be 10,000X watts.   If you open the throttle of the generator fully then 
you
can output X watts and the grid will have 10,001X watts total.   If you
bring your plant to idle you will put out 0 watts.

In either case your effect on the grid is extremely small but not 
zero.   The only
way to change the frequency of the grid is if the central dispatcher orders
enough of the grid capacity to increase or decrease their output. In 
this way
the grid frequency and phase can be brought back to align all the clocks to
the correct time.

On 3/24/2024 7:20 AM, Rsec Van der leij via time-nuts wrote:
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>> On 23 Mar 2024, at 01:47, Clive Blackledge via time-nuts <time-nuts at lists.febo.com> wrote:
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>> It's fun stuff. I'm glad someone brought it up so I can geek out for a
>> minute :)
> If you want to geek a bit more: here is the European view on things. You’ve seen the 2018 incident come along, this guy talks mostly about his own observations and the rules pertaining to them.
>
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> https://wwwhome.ewi.utwente.nl/~ptdeboer/misc/mains.html
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> Ruben van der Leij
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