[time-nuts] And, for my next trick, 50Hz

Steve Rooke sar10538 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 4 10:37:54 UTC 2008


2008/10/4 Chris Cheney <chris.cheney at tesco.net>:

> I don't have a problem with the page (using either Firefox or IE). FWIW
> here is the whole of the relevant paragraph

I finally have a copy of the document now, thanks.

> BC3.4.3 Electric Time
> NGET will endeavour (in so far as it is able) to control electric clock
> time to within
> plus or minus 10 seconds by specifying changes to Target Frequency, by
> accepting bids and offers in the Balancing Mechanism. Errors greater than
> plus
> or minus 10 seconds may be temporarily accepted at NGET's reasonable
> discretion.
>
> I believe that they are saying that the accumulated phase error will
> normally be less than 10 seconds worth, but that amount of phase error
> may exist indefinitely.

I am not so sure as to what sector this document refers to as it is a
bit out of context but there seems to be no reference to the period
over which these 10 seconds can differ and if that is accumulative or
not.

73
Steve
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