I wonder if companies don't junk equipment because "electrolytic capacitors last years not decades" Does this make sense?
Ed ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rex" <r...@sonic.net> To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" <time-nuts@febo.com> Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 5:42 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Thunderbolt accuracy...?? > Richard W. Solomon wrote: >> ..."junk GPSDO"... . Are you sure of that statement ? >> The Cal Lab where I retired from had one of those "junk GPSDO's" >> that they used. The only difference between theirs and mine (that >> I built) was the 3 orders of magnitude difference in price !! >> >> 73, Dick, W1KSZ >> >> > > He said, [a] "junk GPSDO that I salvaged from telco equipment." > > A poor choice of words, perhaps, but I think the intention may be that > the telco took it out of service for some reason and "junked" it. Not > necessarily an adjective denoting quality. More than 90 % of my > high-tech equipment is "junk". > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.