Re: [time-nuts] Dual Mixer

2010-05-12 Thread WarrenS
Bruce Good, It does seem like we are finally making some good progress. You now seem to acknowledge that my tester could work if I integrate. You now seem to acknowledge that I am integrating by using a filter. I acknowledge that my integration method is not perfect, BUT it is simple and good

[time-nuts] synchronizing a large number of weakly coupled oscillators

2010-05-12 Thread Eugen Leitl
Has anyone utilized a network of locally, weakly coupled oscillator synchronization (a la http://www.projectcomputing.com/resources/sync/index.html ) for precise timekeeping purposes? -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org

Re: [time-nuts] Dual Mixer

2010-05-12 Thread Bruce Griffiths
WarrenS wrote: Bruce Good, It does seem like we are finally making some good progress. You now seem to acknowledge that my tester could work if I integrate. You now seem to acknowledge that I am integrating by using a filter. In a sampled data system integration is equivalent to a filter but

Re: [time-nuts] Dual Mixer

2010-05-12 Thread Steve Rooke
Sounds like someone is grandstanding to me! Steve On 12 May 2010 22:26, Bruce Griffiths bruce.griffi...@xtra.co.nz wrote: WarrenS wrote: Bruce Good, It does seem like we are finally making some good progress. You now seem to acknowledge that my tester could work if I integrate. You now

Re: [time-nuts] synchronizing a large number of weakly coupled oscillators

2010-05-12 Thread Bob Camp
Hi The tendency of clocks to self synchronize dates back at least to the days of pendulum clocks. It may date to the era of water clocks, but if so it's undocumented. It has been observed on a wide range of modern clock designs. If you look into injection locking you'll get a pretty good

Re: [time-nuts] synchronizing a large number of weakly coupled oscillators

2010-05-12 Thread jimlux
Eugen Leitl wrote: Has anyone utilized a network of locally, weakly coupled oscillator synchronization (a la http://www.projectcomputing.com/resources/sync/index.html ) for precise timekeeping purposes? There was a discussion on this list about doing something like filling a cavern with

Re: [time-nuts] synchronizing a large number of weakly coupled oscillators

2010-05-12 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 06:03:11AM -0700, jimlux wrote: Eugen Leitl wrote: Has anyone utilized a network of locally, weakly coupled oscillator synchronization (a la http://www.projectcomputing.com/resources/sync/index.html ) for precise timekeeping purposes? There was a discussion on this

Re: [time-nuts] synchronizing a large number of weakly coupled oscillators

2010-05-12 Thread jimlux
Bob Camp wrote: Hi The tendency of clocks to self synchronize dates back at least to the days of pendulum clocks. It may date to the era of water clocks, but if so it's undocumented. It has been observed on a wide range of modern clock designs. If you look into injection locking you'll get a

Re: [time-nuts] synchronizing a large number of weakly coupled oscillators

2010-05-12 Thread jimlux
Eugen Leitl wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 06:03:11AM -0700, jimlux wrote: Allan had a paper where he had 8 inexpensive crystals coupled with mixers and a microcontroller. I think it's called the Clever Temperature Compensated XO or something like that. Presumably, a large population of

Re: [time-nuts] synchronizing a large number of weaklycoupled oscillators

2010-05-12 Thread Bob Camp
Hi My *guess* would be that you would need to setup a situation that favored the lock. Simple outflow clocks probably aren't going to lock. Any of the escarpment designs have the potential to lock. Past that, sounds like a good reason to build up some on a flimsy shelf and see what happens.

Re: [time-nuts] synchronizing a large number of weaklycoupled oscillators

2010-05-12 Thread Bob Camp
Hi If the oscillators all lock to each other, then multiple oscillators don't have any particular advantage. Let's assume you can isolate them so they don't lock to each other. If they are all of similar construction in a similar environment, there is a very real limit to the advantage you

Re: [time-nuts] Fluke monitor

2010-05-12 Thread Leigh L. Klotz, Jr WA5ZNU
On 05/06/2010 12:29 PM, Arthur Dent wrote: But now here is the finding. The monitor board has the 7805 SMD version and I was feeding from +12Volt and after a while the SMD voltage regulator overheated and started to drop the voltage and it was the reason to receive/display garbled

Re: [time-nuts] Fluke monitor

2010-05-12 Thread Brooke Clarke
Hi Leigh: Is the wiring to the monitor exposed such that you can touch it? I think mine died because of static zap to the exposed wiring. http://www.prc68.com/I/ThunderBolt.shtml#iCruze Have Fun, Brooke Clarke http://www.PRC68.com Leigh L. Klotz, Jr WA5ZNU wrote: On 05/06/2010 12:29 PM,

Re: [time-nuts] Fluke monitor

2010-05-12 Thread msproul
My fluke.l monitor stopped working today ... Mine stopped yesterday The monitor is a recent model and has the regulator. So does mine and I run the board from a 9V regulator. The display is built into the same box as the gpsdo I left it on overnight, Mine has been on continuously for

Re: [time-nuts] Fluke monitor

2010-05-12 Thread GandalfG8
In a message dated 12/05/2010 17:45:16 GMT Daylight Time, le...@wa5znu.org writes: The monitor is a recent model and has the regulator. I left it on overnight, in its original case and out in the open, hooked to a 13.5V supply. I had it on a ammeter the whole time, and it never draws

Re: [time-nuts] Fluke monitor

2010-05-12 Thread Didier Juges
Must be the Y2.01K bug... Sorry about the problems being reported recently. While I have no association with Bob of Fluke.l, he is using my design and he was kind enough to send me one demo model, which I have yet to turn on. In general, if the processor is not fried, there is very little that

Re: [time-nuts] synchronizing a large number ofweaklycoupled oscillators

2010-05-12 Thread Tom Van Baak
Hi If the oscillators all lock to each other, then multiple oscillators don't have any particular advantage. Let's assume you can isolate them so they don't lock to each other. If they are all of similar construction in a similar environment, there is a very real limit to the advantage you

[time-nuts] Time nuttiness at Dayton!

2010-05-12 Thread normn3ykf
Who is headed to Dayton?? Any vendors with junk? cu there! 73 de Norm n3ykf ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.

Re: [time-nuts] synchronizing a large number of weakly coupled oscillators

2010-05-12 Thread Hal Murray
Presumably, a large population of cheap coupled oscillators could be rather accurate collectively. Why? There are 2 main sources of error in inexpensive crystal oscillators. The first is the initial manufacturing error. I'd expect crystals made from the same batch to have similar errors.

Re: [time-nuts] Time nuttiness at Dayton!

2010-05-12 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Stop by the TAPR booth! I'll be there most of the time (when I'm not out snooping around in the flea market). John normn3...@stny.rr.com said the following on 05/12/2010 06:08 PM: Who is headed to Dayton?? Any vendors with junk? cu there! 73 de Norm n3ykf

Re: [time-nuts] synchronizing a large number of weakly coupled oscillators

2010-05-12 Thread Alan Melia
Well I guess no because accuracy is the deviation from a known standard (I think) Stability repeatability might be better but you need to consider what the variables might be. Variations in thickness (basically frequency), cut angle (temp coeficient and maybe others), crystal purity (aging, ESR

Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 70, Issue 31

2010-05-12 Thread Christopher Hoover
On 5/12/2010 10:41 AM, Jim Lux wrote: It never occurred to me that they might couple, although almost every other mechanical clock does. What would the mechanism be? Perhaps if all of them run off the same reservoir ___ time-nuts mailing

Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 70, Issue 31

2010-05-12 Thread Alan Melia
Is it possible that mechanical (pendulum) clocks could couple not due to energy transfer between the clocks but external mechanical events such as seismic events of a very low level ?? or even gravitational or lunar gravitational effects.?? Maybe the same for water clocks ?? Alan G3NYK -

Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 70, Issue 31

2010-05-12 Thread Stanley Reynolds
That would not explain the lessing of the effect as the clocks are movedĀ  father from each other or arranged as sides of a triangle. Maybe gravity between the pendulums or more likely vibrations. http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Synchronization http://www.siam.org/pdf/news/481.pdf