On March 24, 2015 4:24:31 PM EDT, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 10:36:10AM -0400, Stewart C. Russell wrote:
Absolutely. At the solar plant I audited the other week, I was amused to see that the great big huge expensive grid protection and control box was controlled via GPS sync. It's the cheapest way to maintain grid frequency at the far end of the grid. And I mean /far/; 5 hours west of Thunder Bay
Sort of timing related; here's a neat desktop demonstration video of time honored lightbulb syncing of a polyphase AC grid. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RGPCIypib5Q
My finance client's use ptp not ntp.
Is PTP particularly hard to use? It looks like an ISO standard, so
will
likely be fiddly but complete.
IEEE 1588 I believe. No idea if there is an ISO standard for it.
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