Hold the Up arrow down for >3 sec and put your counter into the 10 sec
range.
That will give you another digit of resolution. Now the LS Digit will be
1e-10 / count enough to test short term delta stability of many things.
ws
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Howard" <ch...@elfpen.com>
To: "WarrenS" <warrensjmail-...@yahoo.com>
Cc: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement"
<time-nuts@febo.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] getting a grip on 10811 drift (trying to read my
instruments)
You all were right, my targeting of the 50 ohm resistor
across the oscillator output does not seem to have solved the
problem. A good thing to do, probably, but not the answer.
While I was all excited about the resistor change I also
mapped out the control voltage (EFC) vs frequency change.
I wrote it out but didn't pay much attention. Now
I've been pondering over that a bit. My next theory
is that my EFC maybe isn't really doing very much.
First I need to know if I am reading this right.
My frequency counter is a Racal 1992 It reads
9.99999997^6 as I write. A total of 9 digits
with a smaller "6" to the right.
If I read this correctly, I'm looking at
9,999,999.97 Hz ? If so, then I've got an EFC problem.
My EFC mapping looks like this (this was done before
I adjusted the coarse control)
-4.94 VDC 9,999,999.95
-3.70 9,999,999.95
-1.24 9.999.999.93
0 VDC 9,999,999.93
+1.21 9,999,999.92
+2.44 9,999,999.92
+3.67 9,999,999.91
+4.90 VDC 9,999,999.90
It doesn't look to me like I am getting anything
like 1/2 hertz range using the EFC. If that's
the case than my controller card is frantically
steering but not getting the desired result.
Or, if I'm reading it wrong, maybe that last digit
is 0-5 meaning 1/2 a hertz and I am all wet (again).
This particular oscillator came out of an old HP counter
and I believe the EFC was wired to ground. So maybe
the thing has never been exercised. Are there versions
of the 10811 that don't have EFC guts inside?
Hope I'm not boring you all to death.
Chris
w0ep
On 11/9/2012 11:26 PM, WarrenS wrote:
Chris
HP 10811 can't drift that much that fast unless something is near broken,
or being connected wrong like gnds or PS voltage.
Check the operation of the oven.
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