[time-nuts] Not Vectron GPSDO Oscillator stranges...

2013-01-12 Thread Burt I. Weiner
SATURDAY EVENING Gang, More update and good news... I removed the Caritronics switcher supply module and connected the Cisco ADP-30RB supply in its place. I'm pleased to announce that my DATUM 9390 is happy. The power supply noise is less than 5 mV on all three rails under load. I'm letti

Re: [time-nuts] Z3801A trouble

2013-01-12 Thread bownes
That is exactly what mine does when it has marginal power on the 48v input. You may find that 50-52vdc works. On Jan 13, 2013, at 0:14, Joseph Gray wrote: > After many years of faithful service, my Z3801A has stopped working. > It seems to be going through a loop at powerup. All of the LEDs bl

Re: [time-nuts] Z3801A trouble

2013-01-12 Thread J. L. Trantham
Suspicious of a power supply issue. Good luck. Joe -Original Message- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Joseph Gray Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2013 11:14 PM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: [time-nuts] Z380

[time-nuts] Z3801A trouble

2013-01-12 Thread Joseph Gray
After many years of faithful service, my Z3801A has stopped working. It seems to be going through a loop at powerup. All of the LEDs blink at once, then they blink in order, left to right. After several seconds, this is repeated. I'll have to clear the bench of the project I was working on so I can

Re: [time-nuts] Interval Timer Recommendation

2013-01-12 Thread Chris Howard
On 1/12/2013 7:40 AM, Magnus Danielson wrote: > > At 250 ps you use interpolators. The typical coarse counter would be 100 MHz > and that means 10 ns in raw resolution, but you would then use an > interpolator to get higher resolution. By getting a start and stop measure, > roughly tau time in

[time-nuts] A timely, but _very_ boring job...

2013-01-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In Bell Systems Technical Journal, v9:i1 January 1930, p78: Time Service Arrangements have been made in many parts of the country to furnish subscribers who desire it, accurate information as to the time of day. A subscriber wishing the information asks for or di

Re: [time-nuts] GPS Patch Antenna Electrode Tarnish

2013-01-12 Thread Bob Camp
Hi There can be many interesting variations in air quality. I've worked several places where they found that the stock room wasn't the right place to keep silver plated stuff. Being down wind of this or that can be all it takes. Bob On Jan 12, 2013, at 2:56 AM, Attila Kinali wrote: > On Fri,

Re: [time-nuts] Interval Timer Recommendation

2013-01-12 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 01/12/2013 01:37 PM, Azelio Boriani wrote: OK, but I wasn't able to find a single shot resolution specification in its datasheet. Looking at the formulas to determine the accuracy, it looks like the minimum resolution is 250pS... anyway, by reading the user and service manual I found out that

Re: [time-nuts] Interval Timer Recommendation

2013-01-12 Thread Azelio Boriani
OK, but I wasn't able to find a single shot resolution specification in its datasheet. Looking at the formulas to determine the accuracy, it looks like the minimum resolution is 250pS... anyway, by reading the user and service manual I found out that the PM6685 has an EEPROM memory and no battery i

Re: [time-nuts] OT - USB to LPT Adapter - Does it exist?

2013-01-12 Thread ct1dmk
My impression is that old software that make their own timings and devices depend on those timings may have issues due to the fact that there is a delay from write to LPT to bits really appearing on the DB25, albeit small but not that much predictable as it has Windows plus USB in between. That be

Re: [time-nuts] OT - USB to LPT Adapter - Does it exist?

2013-01-12 Thread Hal Murray
rich...@karlquist.com said: > I have an HP laptop with docking station and the docking station provides > serial and parallel ports. The question is: are these "real" ports (just > like built ins) or do they behave as USB dongle versions? One could easily > imagine that the docking station did