[time-nuts] Three subjects.

JayHolovacs jayh6 at verizon.net
Wed Jan 4 07:22:54 EST 2006


Have you seen this

http://www.telechron.com/

Jim Miller wrote:

>On Jan 3, 2006, at 3:32 PM, Dennis O'Keefe wrote:
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>>The Accutron was advertised to be accurate to a minute a month.  
>>Mine was +47
>>1/2 seconds at the end of the month. I no longer have that watch.
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>My father used to work at a small (200 MW) municipal power plant and  
>when I was young (1970s) I would occasionally go along with him to  
>work. They had a Telechron clock and an Accutron right next to each  
>other in the control room next to the synchroscope meter for each  
>boiler/generator unit. The Telechron with its synchronous AC motor  
>was hooked to the generator main output and the Accutron was  
>naturally a "standalone" device.  When off the grid they would trim  
>the steam throttles to adjust the frequency of their generators to  
>make the Telechron stay in agreement with the Accutron. Once it was  
>time to go back on the grid they would use the synchroscope to assure  
>that they were in phase with the grid.  As you can imagine it would  
>be a very, very bad day if they were to close the tie breaker to the  
>grid while out of phase. The accutron / telechron arrangement was to  
>keep the clocks in the town accurate during the off-grid interval.
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>Jim
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