Re: [time-nuts] live 50 Hz measurements

2011-07-02 Thread Pieter-Tjerk de Boer
On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 01:06:31PM -0700, Chris Albertson wrote: > On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Will Matney wrote: > > > > . For accuracy sake, > > I'd still compare the line freq. to a standard, but that's just me. > > If the computer used for this is also running "ntpd" the computer's > clo

Re: [time-nuts] live 50 Hz measurements

2011-07-01 Thread Joe Gwinn
From digest vol 84 issue 7: Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 13:06:31 -0700 From: Chris Albertson To: xfor...@citynet.net, Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] live 50 Hz measurements Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Fri

Re: [time-nuts] live 50 Hz measurements

2011-07-01 Thread Chris Albertson
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Will Matney wrote: > > . For accuracy sake, > I'd still compare the line freq. to a standard, but that's just me. If the computer used for this is also running "ntpd" the computer's clock is disciplined. How well depends on what ntpd is using as a reference clock

Re: [time-nuts] live 50 Hz measurements

2011-07-01 Thread Will Matney
Pieter-Tjerk, Now that is exactly what I had pictured in my head yesterday, and the day before. The chart will give a comparison, over a long time period, of any deviation. We do the same with calibrations, when we're looking for the deviation on voltage and resistance, over a month to a year. It'

[time-nuts] live 50 Hz measurements

2011-07-01 Thread Pieter-Tjerk de Boer
Hello 50 & 60 Hz nuts, The recent discussions here on measuring the mains frequency and phase prompted me to revive an experiment I set up some 3 years ago. Live data about the phase and frequency of the 50 Hz mains here in the Netherlands can now be viewed at: http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/