[GTALUG] mysterious restarts

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 07:58:10PM -0400, Michael Galea wrote:
> You know of course that the grid frequency is only approximately 60.00 hz.
> For example, it was 59.97 hz on Friday at around 5 PM.  I have heard rumors
> that the generators spin the grid up to above 60 hz in the early morning
> hours to compensate for the drift, but I don't know if thats a fact.  I
> often see the grid at 60.01 hz, in the middle of the day though.

Hmm, my APC SmartUPS just reports 60.0 or 60.2Hz all the time, so I
don't think I believe it to be accurate. :)

What gismo are you using to measure that?

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Len Sorensen