Bob Absolutely lots of ways to die. Such as bad caps, bad variable cap, resistors that are cooked..... I am pretty good with all of those and have experienced most of them. But then comes the point of the dirty bulb and it doesn't have to be the blob. Though you will find the blob most likely with the dirty bulb. The darkened window cause a loss in signal and ultimately loss of lock. The heat gun clears both up. Regards Paul WB8TSL
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:41 PM, Alex Pummer <a...@pcscons.com> wrote: > but there was a description; how to rejuvenate the rubidium bulb by > cautiously warning it up, to "remelt " the rubidium.... > 73 > Alex > > On 11/20/2014 7:31 PM, paul swed wrote: > >> I do agree its subjective. But my gut says bad is 2-3V I know they seem to >> run above 3. But whatever. When the blinkOmeter counts I am screwed. :-) >> Time to get the heatgun. >> Regards >> Paul. >> >> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Bob Camp <kb...@n1k.org> wrote: >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > 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.
