On the old telco RBs $25 they all worked, but were down on lamp life. So the first one chosen ran for 3 years and then started blinking out. Replaced it with another. That first one is the one I used the heat gun on and is again operable with what appears could be good lamp life. (Reasonable) Regards Paul WB8TSL
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 7:00 AM, Bob Camp <kb...@n1k.org> wrote: > Hi > > So far, I have not found any of the Rb’s that came out of the KS boxes > with troubles. The ones I got and pulled from boxes myself all have worked > fine. The units that got pulled on the other side of an ocean, not so much. > There have been a couple of them with issues. What ever they go through > getting shipped overseas and salvaged, it’s not doing the parts any good. > That’s one of the reasons getting the newer design KS boxes NIB has a lot > of appeal. There are infant mortality reliability issues to deal with on > new stuff. I’d rather have those issues than end of life and corrosion. > > Bob > > > > On Nov 19, 2014, at 9:05 PM, paul swed <paulsw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > And I am the happy owner of 4 or 5 of the $25 RBs. Hey they are old but > you > > can recover them with the old heatgun trick. That said glowing things > like > > those do tend to wear out. I could see why they moved away from them. > > > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 8:15 PM, Bob Camp <kb...@n1k.org> wrote: > > > >> Hi > >> > >> Lucent has been putting GPS based Radio Frequency Timing Generators > (RFTG) > >> into cell sites for a long time. They all have the 15 MHz and pps > outputs > >> in common. Lucent also seems to like one paint color and an approximate > >> size. For what ever reason (because they can?) the model numbers and > >> internal designs change from time to time. For quite a while they really > >> liked the idea of running Rb’s in cell sites. Looking at the latest > batch > >> of parts, that seems to have changed around 1999. > >> > >> Lots of generations of very similar looking boxes with very different > >> stuff inside each of them. > >> > >> Bob > >> > >>> On Nov 19, 2014, at 7:53 PM, paul swed <paulsw...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> I just saw the picture of the units front panel and it looked the same. > >>> Oh well. > >>> Regards > >>> Paul > >>> WB8TSL > >>> > >>> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Bob Camp <kb...@n1k.org> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Hi > >>>> > >>>> This is a branch thread that never got it’s title changed to drop the > >>>> KS-24361 part of it. More or less it’s “compare the older KS boxes to > >> the > >>>> newer ones”. > >>>> > >>>> Bob > >>>> > >>>>> On Nov 19, 2014, at 6:03 PM, Dan Rae <dan...@verizon.net> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> On 11/19/2014 2:47 PM, paul swed wrote: > >>>>>> Was doing a search for Lucent RFTGm-II-XO looking for alternates to > >> the > >>>>>> $150 solution. > >>>>>> A 10 Mhz mod popped up. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> http://telcodata.us/~myself/Lucent-RFTGm-Modification.pdf > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Looks simple enough and I have not validated anything. > >>>>>> Regards > >>>>>> Paul > >>>>>> WB8TSL > >>>>>> > >>>>> Paul, that has nothing to do with the current ebay offerings that > have > >>>> generated so much traffic recently... > >>>>> > >>>>> Dan > >>>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>>> 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. > >>>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> 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. > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
