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I turned off the alarm clock that way once.
Once.
I turned off the alarm clock that way once.
Once.
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Really saggy-looking AC mains sinusoid - the top portion 'clipped' off due to ... extensive use of peak-rectifying power supplies (all kinds of consumer electronics?):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozzp4RW5G54
This is the result of being on kind the long-end of a power distribution line -
- and something that PFC (which draws current during the entire 360 degrees of the AC sinusoid, rather than just during the peak and 'clipping' the incoming AC wave, as peak-detecting or peak-rectifying Power Supplies do using only diodes and caps ...Comment
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Or it might be that a Tektronix 453 is a 1960's design they quit making in the 70's.Mann-Made Global Warming.
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IMO, He's speaking to the age/reliability of the test equipment.veritas odium paritComment
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The age/reliability of the oscilloscope is probably the reason why we see the interference exactly in the place where switching PSU's make it? Or even every other oscilloscope has the same problem thus showing intereference where is actually none?Less jewellery, more gold into electrotech industry!
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You mean that exact place where Voltage regulators on turbine generators make it?
Oh yeah, and an old scope would never clip anything....
Especially when the probes are properly compensated.
I didn't see a sticker. - Has it been cal'ed since the 60's?
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No I mean where switching power supplies without APFC and appropriate transient filtering make it...Less jewellery, more gold into electrotech industry! Half of the computer problems is caused by bad contacts
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Exactly same place.
That trace has more problems than just being clipped which suggest the scope is AFU.
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That thought never entered my mind; everything I've got here indicates a true representation as displayed by the Type 453 O-scope in the video ...
If he would prefer, I think I've got an old Eico or Heathkit that *does* have a dynamic range/compression issue ...
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As I was saying ... I can view the 'signal' six ways from Sunday, swap channels, et cetera, the AC Mains signal always has the peaks clipped:
The 'clean' sinewave (for comparison) was generated by this instrument (note: It too is not currently certified to an NIST-traceable standard, but I have a warm fuzzy feeling it's working okay and would even 'fly' with it):
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GX270_user; As the author of that video you linked himself shows in the comment the reason for the resonance on his powerline was a failed connection, he later found it by radio direction finding a mile down his powerline, and gives a youtube link for this aswell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhaMJD57QwA"The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it."Comment
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I should add, I try to verify proper test equipment operation by either verifying with another instrument - or by cross checking with another type of instrument (perhaps a PC based scope or spectrum analyzer) ... I'm sure everybody does this ... right?
In the case above, swapping between CHs 1 and 2 on the O-scope resulted in the 'distorted' waveform always being associated with the AC Mains signal ...
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I don't quite understand ... but, the issue with the flat-topped mains remains today (see posted image above, for instance), and was not due to the 'arcing' across an 1" air gap on an un-used circuit a mile away (the pole-pig shown fed an unused riser to an empty lot where a house had been removed). Good work hunting that down BTW.
I have a full report how all this was down, BTW, in PDF format if one is interested ...
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The scope isn't showing you what you think it is.
1- The grid has 100's & 1000's of generators running in parallel. They aren't all going to be perfectly in sync, there will be load shifting between generators through the grid, and expecting a clean sine-wave on the grid is nothing less than naive.
2- When you have to send voltage very long distances over wire, in order to have the correct voltage at the distant point from the source you have to crank up the voltage at the source. This means that loads near the source require a means of reducing the voltage is required. They aren't going to use an AC motor to spin another generator just to get a nice clean sine-wave at the correct voltage. They regulate it at the sub-stations and the method is to clip it.
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Right.
I suspect 'out there' on the 14 kV riser off the main 3-phase things are a lot 'cleaner' so to speak; however, it isn't true here near the end of a long residential spur feeder off that line (did I *did* mention being near the end of long spur by any chance?) ... in fact, for some reason this is one of the longer spur lines in this subdivision ... this as they say a "Power Quality" issue but I digress ... I'm going to take this up with out local 'provider' too I think ...
I'm familiar with transmission and distribution too. And generation. I don't guess I mentioned that any where else so it's probably fair to mention it here ... beware how far you might go out on a limb (fair 'warning' notice given) ...
One of my research activities has been to look at the lead-lag action of 'the grid as loads (and generator dispatch) change throughout the day (we here in Texas have our *own* grid; I suspect you know that already) and other assorted oddities ... one of the results of that work is a software app shown in the vid below which displays/logs the number of cycles gained/lost over a period of time ... it's interesting to see how the 'dynamics' of the system reacts over a 24 hr period:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-K35uYV9UI
(Note the 'reference' used is GPS-disciplined/phase-locked 10 MHz timebase)
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I have a ThinkPad T460p that keeps restarting instead of shutting down. The culprit is the LAN: if it is disabled in the BIOS, the problem is solved. I have already replaced the LAN chip (WGI219LM) twice, done CleanME, flashed another BIOS. Unfortunately all without success. What else can I check? -
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