> Thanks for the two references for affordable 10 turn precision pots.
Don't forget All Electronics, they have a few for much less than new prices:
https://www.allelectronics.com/category/470750/potentiometers/precision-potentiometers/1.html
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> You can't test a server for smearieness. It wouldn't surprise me if some of
> them turn out to be getting time from google servers or something similar.
True, but you *can* see which upstream time source has been selected
for a NTP server. Ask went through the pool servers last leap-second
and
Eric,
As many others have mentioned, Meinberg has an excellent Windows port
of NTPD that replaces the (horrible) default SNTP client. Linux & Mac
should both have the standard NTPD distributions available.
Since you mentioned internet outages (without mentioning frequency or
duration), adding in
