At 11:54 PM 5/1/2008, Hal Murray wrote:
I assume that this would have to be locked to the grid frequency
somehow - can't see all that power being rectified then sent out
through a grid-locked inverter.
Why not?
Diesel-electric locomotives do electrical conversions because it's more
Van Baak
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 12:06 AM
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Optical time sync
Now these are quite impressive but what really caught my eye was one
with a Garmin hockey puck GPS antenna on top of it, I thought 'what's
this?' I
Quoth Tom Van Baak at 2008-05-02 14:36...
I wonder if the blades also are in sync, either amongst
themselves, or with GPS, or with the power grid frequency.
Those that I have seen in Denmark appear rotate in sync with each other;
I assume that this would have to be locked to the grid frequency
I assume that this would have to be locked to the grid frequency
somehow - can't see all that power being rectified then sent out
through a grid-locked inverter.
Why not?
Diesel-electric locomotives do electrical conversions because it's more
efficient than mechanical gears.
Some high
Hal Murray wrote:
Why not?
Diesel-electric locomotives do electrical conversions because it's more
efficient than mechanical gears.
Some high voltage transmission lines are DC. The conversion sites on each
end must be interesting.
Especially when they use mercury arc rectifiers.
Now these are quite impressive but what really caught my eye was one
with a Garmin hockey puck GPS antenna on top of it, I thought 'what's
this?' I inquired of the sales rep lady at the booth and she informed
me that beacons for wind farms are required to have sychronized beacon
lights.
Now these are quite impressive but what really caught my eye was one
with a Garmin hockey puck GPS antenna on top of it, I thought 'what's
this?' I inquired of the sales rep lady at the booth and she informed
me that beacons for wind farms are required to have sychronized beacon
lights.
