[time-nuts] Timing Distribution in Mountainous Terrain

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <8459B572-1428-4F6A-8375-AFB4F7225945 at cox.net>, "Thomas A. Frank" wr
ites:

>If so, being within 300 miles of each other suggests that they are  
>most likely all on the SAME section of the grid, in which case the  
>phase time of arrival of the electric power waveform should be  
>constant between them (the zero crossing may not be perfectly  
>aligned, but it should always be the same differential).

Won't work.  Utility transformers have load-dependent parasitics
which mess this up.   It is one of the biggest challenges in
doing "autonomous cell based grid control" and similar schemes.

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