Hi Bert, Thanks for the comments. I did learn today that this was a recent pull, so that explains why it came up well. I hope you'll understand my reluctance to start making adapters and doing direct measurements on the thing. One of my next steps is to get it to talk to me. Unfortunately, I'm out of serial ports, so I've got to wait till this evening until I can rewire my GPSDO to accept a USB adapter to free up my RS-232.
Bob From: Bert Kehren via time-nuts <time-nuts@febo.com> To: time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Tuesday, December 9, 2014 8:20 AM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] PRS-45A is alive! 16 Minutes is normal. First FTS tubes do not leak as much as the old HP tubes. Second the seller most likely did run a test which means the tube was pumped down. Unless there is software that tells beam current the only way I know to get some idea of health of tube is as I mentioned before measure the beam current. I have probably done it at least a hundred times, made a connector adapter. Bert Kehren In a message dated 12/8/2014 10:15:08 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, b...@evoria.net writes: Well, it's alive, and I even have 10MHz coming from it. It took about 16 minutes to go to lock. Is that good, or doesn't matter? Now I've got to put together a serial cable and see if I can talk to it and find out how it thinks it's doing. But, this is good! www.evoria.net/AE6RV/PRS-45A/2014-12-08%2020.51.33.jpg Hope you enjoy the wall decorations. =) Bob - AE6RV _______________________________________________ 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.