[time-nuts] Blackout in Europe and power line frequency jump

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <FBCMFE02B11Lf4bg5Xm00109dfb at fbcmfe02b11.fbc.local>, Marco writes:
>At 14.33 09/11/2006, Rusty wrote:
>
>>Thanks for sending this. Those graphs were very interesting. I've certainly
>>never seen a frequency deviation of that magnitude or duration before!
>
>Same here, it has been an absolute exception.

The reason you don't see worse frequency deviations is that most
power producers drop off at the net around .5 Hz error so you loose
power.

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