I have both an OCXO and an FE-5680 Rb oscillator and I'd like to track their temperatures.
What is the best why to measure? Maybe each has a different best method The OCXO is just a small steel can. Is measuring the steel can temperature the best why to go. Epoxy some kind of sensor to it? The Rb is mounded to a large heat sink and there is a fan. I want to control the fan so as to keep the Rb temperature constant. In both cases I tried using TMP36 three terminal sensors and just got noise. The reported temperature was up and down more than 2C. The fan controller just chases noise. BTW the fan based temperature control is effective. The FE5680 gets very warm in it's box but if I give the 12V fan even 8 volts the heat sink quickly cools. I want to throttle the fan to keep the Rb at constant temperature but the temperature data I'm getting is not very good. The problem I think is that any sensor I have is on the outside of the oscillator and is effected by cooling air What are others doing? What's the best kind of sensor. -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ 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.
