Bruce Griffiths wrote:
Not surprising, given that there is typically about 30ns clock to output
delay per HC390 (divide by 2 and divide by 5 asynchronously cascaded)
with 7 asynchronously cascaded 390's between the 10MHz clock input and a
1PPS output having a typical total clock to output delay of 210ns with a
tempco of around 880ps/C. The observed variation could be produced by a
change of around 0.6C in the HC390 chip temperature.
Put the divider in a small box for isolation?
AC?
Regardless, the periodic wander needs to be traced to the phenomen.
A couple of students doing work at the company was quite supprised about
the periodic noise they saw... that suddently stopped during a long
measurement. Since I knew the house AC stopped running the fans at 18:00
and it matched their stop an environmental effect was expected. Using a
pair of strips of foam-tape over the oscillator (flimsy "Stratum 3")
they removed the effect almost entierly. That a little tape and a few
minutes of work could make such a difference was new to them. I think
they learned something.
Cheers,
Magnus
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