Power Grid Experiment

[Mike O'Dell]

too bad the article is full of factual errors

the bit about "everything that blinks "12:00"
after a power fail running fast or slow?
that's mostly bogus these days. the digital clocks
almost all use a crystal for the timebase. 
they can mark seconds accurately but they
don't keep ticking during a power flop
(unless they have a battery like good clocks do),
so the time skews and it resets to 1200 so people
know it's wrong.

out there somewhere are still some 60Hz synchronous
motor clocks, and they might lose.

more interesting will be record turntables which
rely on synchronous motors. and since the cheap
strobe is an NE2, the speed will *appear* correct
while it's wrong! 

this may have *very* interesting results for
grid-tied inverters of various flavors.

	  -mo