Hi, I've been lurking on this list for a long time but now it's time to unlurk.
I don't remember if it's appropriate to introduce oneself on this list, but I'll do it anyways. :) I've been tinkering with electronics for some thirty odd years now - mostly just as a hobby but also occasionally semi-professionally. Most of my stuff is microcontroller based (AVR and/or PIC) - mostly in assembly,but C is also ok for some projects - higher level languages are for whimps :). I'm Swedish by birth but living and working in Dubai in the IT/Finance industry since a couple of years. I just bought a Thunderbolt from flyingbest at Ebay to use as a nice timebase for my counters and signal gens. I discovered that it had a bad DS1620 tempsensor that always reported -55 C so I replaced it with a thru-hole version that I happened to have some spares of. I then got a nice 24.xxxxx C temperature readout in Lady Heather. (When I tested the tbolt without the DS1620 it reported a temperature between -0.5 to -1.5 C) Now I'm finally coming to the question: Since I'm using a thru-hole version of the DS1620 and have to use cables between the chip and the circuit board I could possibly extend the cables a bit so I can glue (with a non termo-insulating glue) the chip onto the ocxo itself to have a tighter coupling between them. Would that improve the stability or is it better to just measure the air temperature in the box? /mats _______________________________________________ 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.