Are you sure you are right? Run an amplifier in bridge mode and you
basically have 2 electonic generators connected in antiphase and you will
get lots of power without one side trying to catch up with the other.

I always thought that the national grid machines synced up because a
generator can also act as a motor and any out of phaseness with the grid
means the grid will drive the generator till it goes back in phase.

Gareth.



"Robin Graham" wrote in message
...
You can't really put two AC supplies in parallel because if they get
out of phase they'll start eating each other's power as fast as they
possibly can and will blow up

Are you sure you're right, here? After all, the National Grid is supplied
by
no end of alternators all in parallel. Once an alternator has been put on
line it remains in phase automatically because it can't do anything else.
It's getting it on in the first place that's the trick (but not a big
one).
Lamps across each pair of phases will go out when the phases are in phase,
so to speak, and the alternators can then be switched together.

Rob Graham