Re: [time-nuts] Help improving impedance measurement by having a better clock

2018-04-08 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi I believe we are talking about material impedances here rather than electrical impedance. One of the weird things about this is that frequency (as in frequency accuracy) *can* be a contributor to the resultant error. Thus my original question about just what the concern actually is….. Bob

Re: [time-nuts] Help improving impedance measurement by having a better clock

2018-04-08 Thread Brooke Clarke
Hi Daniel: If you're concerned with accuracy of impedance measurements you might want to spent a lot of time studying "The Impedance Measurement Handbook", it's the bible for this.  The way the measurement is made has a huge impact on the accuracy.  For example using a vector network analyzer t

Re: [time-nuts] Help improving impedance measurement by having a better clock

2018-04-08 Thread Attila Kinali
On Sat, 7 Apr 2018 22:54:42 -0300 Daniel Mendes wrote: > I´m a long time time-nuts lurker (I posted here just a dozen times). I make > a few impedance measurement systems for material analysis (i´m a single man > shop doing custom hardware for clients). Usually they´re based around a > STM32F4 /

Re: [time-nuts] Help improving impedance measurement by having a better clock

2018-04-07 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi I’m not at all sure that the clocks will really get into the measurements. The PLL does have jitter, but it has zero frequency error. One way to get around the whole issue is to use an outboard device with its own clock. 400 KHz is a bit high for the integrated audio ADC / DAC parts. Drop

[time-nuts] Help improving impedance measurement by having a better clock

2018-04-07 Thread Daniel Mendes
I´m a long time time-nuts lurker (I posted here just a dozen times). I make a few impedance measurement systems for material analysis (i´m a single man shop doing custom hardware for clients). Usually they´re based around a STM32F4 / F7 microprocessor: DAC generates sine signal (1-400KHz), ADCs mea