Re:System separation in the Continental Europe Synchronous A...
by iSnow on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @08:38AM
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At a $100 price point, I'd expected a DCF77 receiver tbh, not a crystal oscillator.
Re:System separation in the Continental Europe Synchronous A...
by laurent92 on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @09:16AM
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As an industry, it requires a special customs declaration + fire safety measures on boats and planes when you transport an oven with a battery inside. That may be the reason for not using battery-backed ovens, and relying on the power supply.
Re:System separation in the Continental Europe Synchronous A...
by fuzzer37 on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @10:41AM
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Just curious what kind of alarm clock costs $100
Re:System separation in the Continental Europe Synchronous A...
by ficklepickle on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @12:07PM
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One that plays soothing sounds, like dogs barking or seagulls fighting over trash, probably.
It might even project the moon phase on the ceiling.
Re:System separation in the Continental Europe Synchronous A...
by sltkr on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @01:42PM
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Something like this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B008LR3KD8/
The idea is that it wakes you up gently by flooding the room with light resembling a natural sunrise. One reason that it might be expensive is that it needs a lot of high luminance hue shifting LEDs, and possibly I overpaid a bit (there do seem to be much cheaper competitors) but it was still a good investment because it does make my mornings a lot more pleasant.
A similar event happened in Europe a year ago (also due to problems in former Yugoslavia) and all electric clocks in my house (microwave, oven, alarm clocks) went out of sync temporarily. I was just as surprised as you.
Basically, it's exactly the devices that lose track of time in case of a power outage, and that you need to manually adjust for daylight savings time, that are synchronized to the grid. Devices that use a battery (such as laptops, mobile phones, and CMOS clocks in PCs) must necessarily use some other means.
It doesn't seem to be much correlated with price either: my alarm clock cost over $100 and it was still affected. Surely at that price point they could have afforded a crystal oscillator in the design, if they wanted to, but it seems this just isn't typically done.