----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jason Roysdon" <nanog.20110...@jason.roysdon.net>
> That's what they're doing here, opting to skip "patching" the time > error. They're not ignoring frequency altogether, but rather only > minding that aspects that have to do with grid stability, not your alarm > clock. This is for the better anyway, and NTP/GPS/WWV/WWVH is the way > to go to keep clocks accurate and hopefully will be the outcome of any > consumer complaints. > > I've seen conversation in various forums and lists I read that they are > going to ignore or not care about the 60Hz standard. This is incorrect. > They just aren't going to purposely deviate from the scheduled > frequency to perform manual TEC. > > Mind you, that they still care about why the frequency is off, and when > things are not able to quickly compensate, they want to know and be able > to pinpoint it and fix it: > http://www.nerc.com/filez/standards/Frequency_Response.html > > Specifically, read this PDF: > http://www.nerc.com/docs/oc/rfwg/NERC%20Balancing%20and%20Frequency%20Control%20July%205%202009.pdf Thank you, Jason. I did some searching before I posted that, to see if I could locate better information, but clearly, I didn't search hard enough. Cheers, -- jr 'my google-fu requires 60.01Hz :-)' a -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274
