Re: [time-nuts] Power glitch - Sat morning

2020-04-01 Thread Thierry MUSEUX
20 19:15 À : Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Objet : Re: [time-nuts] Power glitch - Sat morning Would a time nut in Europe in a typical single family home have access to all three phases ? If so would there be any benefit to monitoring the frequency of each phase ? Mark Sp

Re: [time-nuts] Power glitch - Sat morning

2020-04-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
> (I recall that correct wiring of the phases / phase rotation was very > important vis a vis backup power sources for data centres.) For anything but resitive heating, you 100% want to have the order of your three phases under tight control (said the 14 year old kid who fixed the fraye

Re: [time-nuts] Power glitch - Sat morning

2020-04-01 Thread Mark Spencer
Yes that makes sense. I suppose from a power quality perspective there might be some benefit in monitoring all three phases but probably not from a time nuts point of view. (I recall that correct wiring of the phases / phase rotation was very important vis a vis backup power sources for data

Re: [time-nuts] Power glitch - Sat morning

2020-04-01 Thread Adrian Godwin
On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 6:49 PM Arnold Tibus wrote: > > If so would there be any benefit to monitoring the frequency of each > phase ? > > No, because the 3 phases are generated and provided via 3phase > transformers in the village together (fixed 120°)! > > The effect on a large machine if the 3

Re: [time-nuts] Power glitch - Sat morning

2020-04-01 Thread Arnold Tibus
Hello timenuts, just a quick answer from a standard user in DL (living in private house): Am 01.04.2020 um 19:14 schrieb Mark Spencer: Would a time nut in Europe in a typical single family home have access to all three phases ? In general, Yes! At the house entry there are always the 3 phases

Re: [time-nuts] Power glitch - Sat morning

2020-04-01 Thread Adrian Godwin
Here in UK, no. It's available at extra installation cost and some people with a big lathe or other machinery have it as do farms and industrial locations. But the typical domestic house doesn't : phases are commonly distributed down the street with progressive phases on each property. On Wed, A

Re: [time-nuts] Power glitch - Sat morning

2020-04-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <29d5bd66-0d7e-4961-8532-6e4a0e361...@alignedsolutions.com>, Mark Spencer writes: >Would a time nut in Europe in a typical single family home have access to all >three phases ? At least here in Denmark: Yes. Small houses which got electrified 100 years ago may only have

Re: [time-nuts] Power glitch - Sat morning

2020-04-01 Thread Mark Spencer
Would a time nut in Europe in a typical single family home have access to all three phases ? If so would there be any benefit to monitoring the frequency of each phase ? Mark Spencer m...@alignedsolutions.com 604 762 4099 > On Apr 1, 2020, at 9:50 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >

Re: [time-nuts] Power glitch - Sat morning

2020-04-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <3b7684a9-2702-295b-4935-33a9b3f47...@earthlink.net>, jimlux writes: >In EU, where 240V is the default line voltage, I wonder what the 3 phase >distribution is? Is it 415 delta / 240 star 230V actually, and yes, it is universally 400 delta / 230 star. That's also why you on

Re: [time-nuts] Power glitch - Sat morning

2020-04-01 Thread jimlux
On 4/1/20 8:13 AM, Didier Juges wrote: When you feed an electrical moteur with that, it sounds like a Harley Davidson :) It's a feature! Only if the motor is 2 phase, also. 208 delta/120 star(wye) is a very common distribution scheme in "light industrial/office" applications. Most of the lo

Re: [time-nuts] Power glitch - Sat morning

2020-04-01 Thread Didier Juges
When you feed an electrical moteur with that, it sounds like a Harley Davidson :) It's a feature! On Tue, Mar 31, 2020, 10:58 AM Mark Spencer wrote: > A few decades ago I was chatting with an electrical engineer during some > down time during a long project in Canada. We started talking about >

Re: [time-nuts] Power glitch - Sat morning

2020-03-31 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi At some point the rational question would be - how does this relate to timing? Getting a sound card so that it will do a reasonable job of time tagging edges can be “fun”. My approach was always to feed a “known” signal into that second channel ….. Bob > On Mar 31, 2020, at 8:46 PM, Hal Mur

Re: [time-nuts] Power glitch - Sat morning

2020-03-31 Thread Hal Murray
azelio.bori...@gmail.com said: > It helps to have a digitizer on the line, a 'scope to sample the line, say, > 20 seconds before and 20 second after a glitch. This way you can surely tell > what happened without any speculation. There are a number of ready made > digitizers (red-pitaya, digilent

Re: [time-nuts] Power glitch - Sat morning

2020-03-31 Thread Mark Spencer
A few decades ago I was chatting with an electrical engineer during some down time during a long project in Canada. We started talking about residential AC power. Reportedly in some multi tenant buildings in Canada the individual suites may be supplied with two phases from a 208 / 120 volt

Re: [time-nuts] Power glitch - Sat morning

2020-03-31 Thread Robert LaJeunesse
aged appliances. > Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 at 11:26 AM > From: "Bob kb8tq" > To: ch...@chriscaudle.org, "Discussion of precise time and frequency > measurement" > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Power glitch - Sat morning > > Hi > > I agree that it

Re: [time-nuts] Power glitch - Sat morning

2020-03-31 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi I agree that it shouldn’t be something that happens. That’s why half the house going dark was a bit weird ….. Bob > On Mar 31, 2020, at 10:53 AM, Chris Caudle wrote: > > On Tue, March 31, 2020 8:28 am, Bob kb8tq wrote: >> If you have a two phase circuit, are both phases of interest? > > If

Re: [time-nuts] Power glitch - Sat morning

2020-03-31 Thread Chris Caudle
On Tue, March 31, 2020 8:28 am, Bob kb8tq wrote: > If you have a two phase circuit, are both phases of interest? If you are referring to residential power, a single how would be single phase center-tapped, as far as I know you never get two phases to a single residence. The houses in a neighborho

Re: [time-nuts] Power glitch - Sat morning

2020-03-31 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi One minor point: If you *do* decide to digitize the line, think about how much headroom you want on the digitizer. That applies both in the amplitude and time domains. On a 120V 60 Hz line, is an 800V 300 us pulse of interest? How about a half cycle at 2X or (1/4) line voltage? If you hav

Re: [time-nuts] Power glitch - Sat morning

2020-03-31 Thread Tim Shoppa
Hal, were there any storms or maybe just drenching rain in your area Saturday AM? Fallen trees, drooping branches, and line crosses all go together. 5 seconds is a very common value for circuit breaker reclosers as faults either clear themselves or are isolated. Tim N3QE On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at

Re: [time-nuts] Power glitch - Sat morning

2020-03-31 Thread Azelio Boriani
It helps to have a digitizer on the line, a 'scope to sample the line, say, 20 seconds before and 20 second after a glitch. This way you can surely tell what happened without any speculation. There are a number of ready made digitizers (red-pitaya, digilent analog discovery, ...) if you don't want

[time-nuts] Power glitch - Sat morning

2020-03-30 Thread Hal Murray
A while ago, I clean things up so that my system that monitors the line frequency was running off a UPS while watching the non-UPS line. I looked at some graphs. It seemed to be working. I moved on to other things. Last Sat morning, it got tested. Here is the graph of that area: http://us