Time Nuts, I have a nice new-to-me 5372A that I'd like to use as part of a DMTD stability analysis system. After getting a few odd glitches from a very stable source spaced 2 ns above or below the main time interval reading, I decided to run the performance verification checkout from the service manual. The checkout calls for a BNC-T from the rear 10 MHz timebase output split to both A and B channels. The spec is 100 ns +/- 200 ps but I am consistently getting either 101.6 or 101.4 ns in Time Interval mode on either channel. So it seems to be high/off by exactly 1.4 ns. The standard dev is very low (typically 0-60 ps over several 100 point runs). Curiously, in Continuous Time Interval mode, it reads dead on (100.0 ns). I've run the sensitivity cal because I got the 160 error (dead battery), but not the interpolator cal (I don't have the appropriate riser card and the manual calls for a specific cable). Has anyone seen this? I suspect maybe the interpolator board needs to be ca librated, but maybe something else? Has anyone had experience trying to adjust the board without a riser? Any other tests I might run to shed light on what might be causing this?
Thanks,Adam MacDonaldShalimar, FL _______________________________________________ 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.
