Andrew Mawson wrote:

OK it's going back a few years, but when the CEGB had their National
Grid Control Centre at Park ST London SE1 the number of cycles per day
was very accurately ensured to be correct (A pair of Ferranti Argus
500 Process Control computers each had an ultra accurate crystal
clocks in them feeding displays in the control room) and the Control
Enginners could let the frequency drift a tad hour by hour but had to
get it right over 24. They dispersed the control to various regional
centres (Winnersh, St Albans and three others I cannot remember but I
think that the principle remains the same.

AWEM
(who in a past life occassionally sweated blood over those computers!)


If all those areas are connected to a single power grid they still
have to stay in sync, even if the control system is broken into regional
centers.


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