Hi I certainly agree that, say potting the circuit board, would be a lot easier than some of the stuff we have been talking about.
My main concern about tearing up the unit is impacting the magnetic shielding. I assume that the outer enclosure forms part of the magnetic shield (at least that's what the data sheets say ...). Bob On Dec 24, 2009, at 7:51 PM, Magnus Danielson wrote: > Bob Camp wrote: >> Hi >> The original intent was to simply take an existing "cheap" rubidium and do >> simple things to it. Tearing it into pieces and redesigning parts of it was >> not anything I originally contemplated. The tight integration of the physics >> package to the electronics would make this a fairly involved process. > > Well, the main point with that was that while passive temperature stability > craze have been raving high here, and into more and more expensive and > elaborate propositions, relative simple changes (not without its challenges) > would change the equation (amount of heat to cool of) quite noticeably. If > money was no object, building no-compromise/prisoners temperature > stabilization scehemes around used commercial rubidiums should not be the > optimum way to go. Building a Rubidum or Cesium fointain would probably be > way better use of the money. Quite a different project thought. > > Maybe we need to get back to doable levels, and also consider what changes Rb > frequency, why and what can we do to avoid it. > > I have been dipping my nose into the literature, to refresh myself on the > complex interactions. Lamp intensity in itself is a fashinating topic, while > the filtering cells temperature to intensity dependence is another little > complex field of its own and that (as I suspected) intensity too pulls the > frequency. Oh, and after a quick glaze, I found that the necessary side-peaks > needed for servo of C-field exists for Rb-87, so it can be done similar to > that of Cesium. > > Cheers, > Magnus > > _______________________________________________ > 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.