>Bob Ammerman: >I do work with power plants in the US, control systems for major hydro >facilities. I have always been curious whether in a big country with a unified grid centralized timing signalling is used to sync the plants ? Because I think that it is very hard to do it otherwise (plants syncing to what they 'see' on the outgoing lines) on a grid with significant time lags. Peter -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads