On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 21:42:51 +0000, Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 01:16:24AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 21:52:57 +0000, > > Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > with), as long as you're in the right country; at least in the UK, > > > the frequency is legally required to average out to exactly 50Hz > > > in a 24-hour period. ..url to this? I curious about the wording of these regulations. > > ..huh? I thought the idea was to stick as close to 50Hz as > > possible? On having some heavy gear hop onto the grid, the load > > slows it to say 49.99Hz, so promptly feeding more power onto the > > grid to bring it back up to 50Hz, is done. But you brits have to > > hike it up to say 50.01Hz for a while "to catch up lost clock > > time"??? That too, is outside the 50Hz ideal. > > It's wider than that... a +/-1% variation is allowed, ie. > 49.5Hz-50.5Hz. Nothing really bothers about such a variation... except > in the bad old days when record companies' mastering turntables were > mains-locked, so you could end up with LPs whose pitch was up to 1% > out (a semitone is about 5.9%). ..oh yeah, the virtuos saw blade violinist effect. ;-) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
