[time-nuts] Antenna Supply voltage

2018-01-08 Thread Neville Michie
never thought of before. Cheers, Neville Michie ___ 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.

Re: [time-nuts] Room temperature control (was: Holdover, RTC for Pi as NTP GPS source)

2017-11-01 Thread Neville Michie
of a degree as the AC cycles. If anything, the service life (10 years or more) of the AC unit is longer than conventional hysteresis sensor dominated chuggers. All of this occurs because you stirred the air in the room! cheers, Neville Michie > On 2 Nov 2017, at 6:32 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp

Re: [time-nuts] backfill

2017-06-09 Thread Neville Michie
would try using a reactive metal getter in the package to pick up any mobile water molecules. cheers, Neville Michie > On 10 Jun 2017, at 9:52 AM, Bob kb8tq <kb...@n1k.org> wrote: > > Hi > > You can’t quite process a crystal at 300C, but you can get close. > > Bob

Re: [time-nuts] backfill

2017-06-09 Thread Neville Michie
My memory of high vacuum work is that you need to pump for 4 hours at 300C to remove the water monolayer from glass. On top of the that water monolayer is another water monolayer that comes off more easily, and on top of that another……….. cheers, Neville Michie > On 9 Jun 2017, at 10:57

Re: [time-nuts] Next Aug 21 eclipse and time flow

2017-05-29 Thread Neville Michie
to make these observations again for a long time. A good OCXO will keep time for half an hour, will the apparent GPS time show a deviation? cheers, Neville Michie ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com

Re: [time-nuts] Vintage Frequency Measurement

2017-02-12 Thread Neville Michie
oscillators running together, and we could establish almost any frequency with precision. Calibting an oscillator would not have been difficult. Cheers, Neville Michie > On 12 Feb 2017, at 5:08 PM, Scott Stobbe <scott.j.sto...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I was inspired recently coming a

Re: [time-nuts] Temp/Humidity control systems?

2016-10-27 Thread Neville Michie
to convenience. cheers, Neville Michie > On 28 Oct 2016, at 11:05 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <p...@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: > > > In message <20161027134312.ga18...@panix.com>, Ron Bean writes: > >> And since this is time-nuts: Measuring humidity accurately i

Re: [time-nuts] Temp/Humidity control systems?

2016-10-27 Thread Neville Michie
You are correct to question commercial humidity sensors. It seems to have come about because no-one can make a dollar by selling humidity. Manufacturers do not tell the truth, they think ours is as good as theirs so we should claim the same accuracy. People buy these sensors, believe them, and

Re: [time-nuts] Temp/Humidity control systems?

2016-10-27 Thread Neville Michie
temperature fluctuation if you are going to control relative humidity. cheers, Neville Michie > On 27 Oct 2016, at 8:17 PM, David J Taylor <david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk> > wrote: > > From: jimlux > > You can buy the smallest "window" airconditioner and &q

Re: [time-nuts] Temp/Humidity control systems?

2016-10-26 Thread Neville Michie
they were started under the right conditions. I did publish this 30 or 40 years ago in an Australian electronics magazine. cheers, Neville Michie > On 27 Oct 2016, at 2:59 AM, John Ackermann N8UR <j...@febo.com> wrote: > > I may have the opportunity to build a small "clock room

Re: [time-nuts] Hobbyist grade or homebrew temperature testing chamber?

2016-09-06 Thread Neville Michie
but ensures low temperature gradients. The trick is to have fast response in heater and measurement and no hysteresis in the controller. cheers, Neville Michie > On 6 Sep 2016, at 12:48 PM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist <rich...@karlquist.com> > wrote: > > As we all know,

Re: [time-nuts] Q/noise of Earth as an oscillator

2016-07-27 Thread Neville Michie
depending whether is swings clockwise or anticlockwise due to the earths rotation. What do you think? Cheers, Neville Michie ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts

[time-nuts] How to run Lady Heather under Windows10

2016-03-18 Thread Neville Michie
Hi, a new laptop and a new problem, I can not find COM1, and the slash command on Lady Heather provokes a response that spaces and slash marks are illegal in file names. Any ideas? thanks, Neville Michie ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts

Re: [time-nuts] quartz thermometers

2016-03-12 Thread Neville Michie
of the physical system by the use of the thermometer. cheers, Neville Michie > On 12 Mar 2016, at 8:21 pm, ken hartman <k...@hartmans.org> wrote: > > Interestingly, the use of AC-cut crystals (high linear tempco of frequency) > is found in the development of OCXOs. Using

Re: [time-nuts] PRS10 Heatsink Temperature

2015-11-24 Thread Neville Michie
and how much harm escaping from thermostasis for an hour or two does to your task. Cheers, Neville Michie ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow

Re: [time-nuts] FLL errors

2015-08-29 Thread Neville Michie
object you would want Earth’s rotation to be phase or sidereal Time locked. I realise that for such a task far more complex computation would be required. So is a time locked loop a valid concept? Cheers, Neville Michie ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time

Re: [time-nuts] OXCO insulation

2015-02-26 Thread Neville Michie
Consider the problems of small detached crumbs of this material upsetting the interelectrode capacitances of the oscillator. Fibre material may be more stable. Just a thought, Neville Michie On 26/02/2015, at 6:05 AM, Dave M wrote: Great find, Arthur. I had already convinced myself to use

Re: [time-nuts] Current state of optical clocks and the definition of the second

2015-01-13 Thread Neville Michie
THe stability /accuracy of lasers is entirely dependent on the cavity length. Materials used are usually invar or silica, so you are no better off than with a quartz crystals. They are just a resonant cavity. cheers, Neville Michie ___ time-nuts

Re: [time-nuts] Mechanical 1PPS Oscillator Disciplining

2015-01-10 Thread Neville Michie
, Neville Michie ___ 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.

Re: [time-nuts] Practical considerations making a lab standard with an LTE lite

2014-11-23 Thread Neville Michie
for double glazing, katharometers and generally all devices. The suppression of turbulent heat transfer may provide more insulation but also less noise and instability. So it may be a good idea to use a relatively close fitting box with thick walls. Cheers, Neville Michie On 23/11/2014, at 11:37 PM

Re: [time-nuts] Price of LTE Lite GPSDO vs Trimble Thunderbolt.

2014-10-18 Thread Neville Michie
Hi, I am interested in your new GPSDO. How do I find out more about buying the kit? Is this a USA only deal? cheers, Neville Michie Sydney, Australia On 18/10/2014, at 9:35 AM, S. Jackson via time-nuts wrote: LTE Lite GPSDO ___ time-nuts mailing

Re: [time-nuts] OT Gel Cell question

2014-07-28 Thread Neville Michie
months guarantee. cheers, Neville Michie On 28/07/2014, at 1:59 PM, Chuck Harris wrote: A small disagreement on a couple of points Lead sulfate does not dissolve (in the normal battery chemistry), and does not go all over the place. It forms at the lead and the lead oxide plates, during

Re: [time-nuts] OT Gel Cell question

2014-07-27 Thread Neville Michie
they are also very efficient (99.9% +) electrically. cheers, Neville Michie ___ 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.

Re: [time-nuts] temperature sensor

2014-07-23 Thread Neville Michie
site. cheers, Neville Michie On 23/07/2014, at 5:11 AM, Attila Kinali wrote: On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 01:17:03 +0100 Brian D gro...@planet3.freeuk.co.uk wrote: Saturated steam at standard pressure will be exactly 212F, or 100C. Stupid question: How to you ensure that the steam is saturated

Re: [time-nuts] new clock

2014-07-23 Thread Neville Michie
water. Admittedly a deep cellar made a good clock vault, but a thermistor, a computer fan and a 100 watt filament lamp in a wooden box can give far more accurate temperature control. cheers, Neville Michie On 23/07/2014, at 10:17 PM, Alexander Pummer wrote: it does need a different design

Re: [time-nuts] temperature sensor

2014-07-21 Thread Neville Michie
drilled into aluminium plate edge wise to measure the plate temperature. You only have to do a few experiments to find that this is necessary. cheers, Neville Michie ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https

Re: [time-nuts] National Standards labs worldwide - specifically Australia

2014-06-29 Thread Neville Michie
Hi, it used to be called NSL, National Standards Laboratory, part of the CSIRO. Now it appears to be called National Measurement Institute, (NSI) and seems to be located mainly at Lindfield NSW. http://www.measurement.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx See if that works, Cheers, Neville Michie On 29/06

Re: [time-nuts] Loran, GPS, Lightning, Timing

2014-06-28 Thread Neville Michie
for protection. cheers, Neville Michie ___ 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.

Re: [time-nuts] Loran, GPS, Lightning, Timing

2014-06-28 Thread Neville Michie
Use a local solar cell and battery power supply. If it is self contained it should not attract lightning. Cheers, Neville Michie On 29/06/2014, at 1:13 PM, Hal Murray wrote: namic...@gmail.com said: Fibre optic would seem to be the answer for protection. Assuming I use fibers

Re: [time-nuts] Loran, GPS, Lightning, Timing

2014-06-26 Thread Neville Michie
as magnitude. cheers, Neville Michie On 27/06/2014, at 1:59 AM, Max Robinson wrote: How fast does the maltese cross turn? Regards. Max. K 4 O DS. Email: m...@maxsmusicplace.com Transistor site http://www.funwithtransistors.net Vacuum tube site: http://www.funwithtubes.net

Re: [time-nuts] Loran, GPS, Lightning, Timing

2014-06-25 Thread Neville Michie
field on the mill. cheers, Neville Michie I know you are talking about measuring lightning strikes but if you get the impedance high enough, you can actually measure the earth's electric field. (It is about 200V/m if I recall properly.) Interestingly it is affected by the solar flux and solar

Re: [time-nuts] Weather/units question for European members

2014-05-23 Thread Neville Michie
-locked loop and alternately uses the sensors for transmitter and receiver, swapping ends at about 74 Hz, to get a two way signal. This method cancels most errors. It has temperature and velocity outputs. cheers, Neville Michie On 24/05/2014, at 11:16 AM, Mark Sims wrote: I am building a weather

Re: [time-nuts] Equinox and sidereal time

2014-03-24 Thread Neville Michie
as the sites appear to be available to everyone else. I bought the Nautical Almanac but it does not have such information. It is very hard to find alternate sources of the data. cheers, Neville Michie On 24/03/2014, at 11:06 AM, Paul wrote: On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Neville Michie namic

[time-nuts] Equinox and sidereal time

2014-03-23 Thread Neville Michie
resolution. There is probably more to this than meets the eye, but where does one find out about it? cheers, Neville Michie ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts

Re: [time-nuts] New WWVB modulation format receivers (NOT)

2014-02-20 Thread Neville Michie
Hi Paul, could you give a hint how long ago you released the front end to T_N? thanks Neville Michie (Sydney) On 21/02/2014, at 8:29 AM, paul swed wrote: Chuck thats easy. Because I could make it work. :-) That said there was a post on time-nuts about LORAN C receiver in software. I

Re: [time-nuts] Local Solar Time Clock

2014-01-19 Thread Neville Michie
certain stepping without pole-ing. The clock originally used 1.2 volt pulses, alternate polarity about 20 mS long. You can trade off these values and still get smooth certain operation. Cheers, Neville Michie ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com

Re: [time-nuts] temperature

2013-12-08 Thread Neville Michie
in a bridge circuit with a voltmeter, so they are many orders of magnitude easier to use than a 100 ohm PRT. They are made small enough to get them in close contact with the object to be measured. If you want to know about humidity measurement I can tell you much about that, cheers, Neville Michie

Re: [time-nuts] Crude Survey Technique

2013-11-21 Thread Neville Michie
they do does not seem possible from just a series of position fixes. cheers, Neville Michie On 22/11/2013, at 7:45 AM, tmil...@skylinenet.net wrote: If you want true north, set up a camera that has time or bulb shutter at the south end of your property. Put in a marker stake. take a time

Re: [time-nuts] Time stamping with a PICPET

2013-10-26 Thread Neville Michie
to test and adjust each element of the system, so I need to log timestamps. cheers, thanks for the input, Neville Michie On 26/10/2013, at 4:48 PM, Hal Murray wrote: namic...@gmail.com said: There used to be all sorts of Monitor programs for PCs but I can not see any on recent machines. I want

[time-nuts] Time stamping with a PICPET

2013-10-25 Thread Neville Michie
. The device looks ideal for this task. thanks, Neville Michie ___ 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.

Re: [time-nuts] de Witte's Experiment

2013-08-29 Thread Neville Michie
be an effect. Cheers, Neville Michie ___ 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] Sidereal Time and Lady Heather.

2012-12-19 Thread Neville Michie
to sidereal seconds, but how do you synch. the seconds? This is where the Lady helps. But I do not know how I can get really accurate seconds markers as convenient as the PPS from my Thunderbolt. cheers, Neville Michie ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time

Re: [time-nuts] MesoAmerican calendars, Solstice, etc.

2012-12-18 Thread Neville Michie
would show sidereal time! It is now just a matter of watching the screen and listening to the ticks of the clock. thanks Mark, and the others, cheers, Neville Michie On 18/12/2012, at 2:33 PM, Mark Sims wrote: Yes, you can have a GPSDMC (GPS disciplined Mayan calendar). You can also

Re: [time-nuts] MesoAmerican calendars, Solstice, etc.

2012-12-17 Thread Neville Michie
But does it have an output of Sidereal Time? cheers, Neville Michie A Merry Season to all. On 18/12/2012, at 11:02 AM, Mark Sims wrote: BTW, Lady Heather has support for several versions of the Mayan and Aztec calendars. Also Druid, Herbrew, Islamic, Indian, and many others

Re: [time-nuts] getting a grip on 10811 drift (trying to read my instruments)

2012-11-16 Thread Neville Michie
. A soldering iron fixed them very quickly. The serial numbers were widely separated, so it was not an unlucky batch problem. cheers, Neville Michie On 16/11/2012, at 1:57 PM, Chris Howard wrote: You all were right, my targeting of the 50 ohm resistor across the oscillator output does not seem to have

Re: [time-nuts] getting a grip on 10811 drift (trying to read my instruments)

2012-11-16 Thread Neville Michie
I have found a pic of the dry joint, this one was just a dry joint with resin insulating the connection, the other never had any solder applied. cheers, Neville Michie On 17/11/2012, at 11:09 AM, Chris Howard wrote: Maybe that is my problem. I definitely have a problem. I am able

Re: [time-nuts] Low power timekeeping

2012-09-26 Thread Neville Michie
get a delayed history of the surface temperature. A good oven runs rings around deep earth stability. cheers, Neville Michie On 26/09/2012, at 3:32 PM, Tom Van Baak wrote: How good a clock could you get at much lower power? I guess I'm looking for something (logarithmically) between a watch

Re: [time-nuts] oscillators

2012-08-29 Thread Neville Michie
Does anyone know about what technology is used in Swiss watches to get much better performance from their xtals than you might expect? I assumed that they had look up lists to insert extra counts to compensate for ambient variations, but I have never heard any details. cheers, Neville Michie

Re: [time-nuts] Thunderbolt mounting

2012-07-13 Thread Neville Michie
changes. cheers, Neville Michie ___ 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.

Re: [time-nuts] Leap second? Yay or nay?

2012-07-01 Thread Neville Michie
not make a system reliable enough to insert a leap second it probably cannot handle any other unexpected insult, and that may have far worse consequences. Just my 2p worth, Neville Michie ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe

Re: [time-nuts] Sidereal time

2012-06-16 Thread Neville Michie
the longterm record of the sidereal long case will have no phase jumps. Also it seemed like a good idea, and the more it seems difficult, the more it needs to be done. cheers, Neville Michie On 16/06/2012, at 5:51 PM, Ken Duffill wrote: Hi, First of all why would you want Sidereal Time

[time-nuts] Sidereal time

2012-06-15 Thread Neville Michie
of one of those. How you would find ST to a microsecond is not obvious. How do radio astronomers do it? cheers, Neville Michie ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts

Re: [time-nuts] Sidereal seconds

2012-03-02 Thread Neville Michie
, Neville Michie On 02/03/2012, at 10:14 PM, mike cook wrote: Le 02/03/2012 05:13, Neville Michie a écrit : A possible solution is to take mean time (from a TBolt 10MHz) and divide it by 9,972,695.7 to give a PPS(sid) signal that can run a digital clock dial and give one second(sid) ticks

[time-nuts] Sidereal seconds

2012-03-01 Thread Neville Michie
to check time against the stars. cheers, Neville Michie Sydney Australia ___ 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.

Re: [time-nuts] Morion MV89A Repair

2012-02-25 Thread Neville Michie
Hi, I have two of Morion MV89A, one is prominently marked (RoHS 5). I assume that means lead-less solder. Pure tin solder is much more prone to crystallised joints which break later. Are these the dodgy units ? cheers, Neville Michie On 26/02/2012, at 11:02 AM, John Miles wrote

Re: [time-nuts] nanoseconds in the news

2012-02-16 Thread Neville Michie
response. Would that not be great for huge spikes! cheers, Neville Michie On 17/02/2012, at 9:07 AM, Peter Monta wrote: Time is money... I wonder if long-distance neutrino links might be attractive to the financial community. The SNRs are currently way too low, but with aggressive engineering

Re: [time-nuts] science projects

2012-02-09 Thread Neville Michie
. Maxwell did not hypothesise about radio waves. He just followed his genius nose developing one mathematical expression from another. In this case the time had not come, it took four other scientists years to discover what he had done. cheers, Neville Michie On 10/02/2012, at 3:23 AM, Chris

Re: [time-nuts] telling time without a clock

2012-01-28 Thread Neville Michie
clock to a second or better, and reach the limit of stability of the atomic clock. cheers, Neville Michie On 29/01/2012, at 3:46 AM, aartmol...@comcast.net wrote: The star catalog specifically designed for lunar occultations is the XZ (I'm guessing it stands for eXtended Zodiacal) Catalog

Re: [time-nuts] establishing your position w/o gps

2012-01-25 Thread Neville Michie
around, the position of the sun on the horizon is rock steady and is adjusted by the thimble for coincidence. The elevation is then read off the vernier. A theodolite needs a solid base to work from and would be useless on a ship. cheers, Neville Michie On 25/01/2012, at 12:52 PM, Jim

Re: [time-nuts] establishing your position w/o gps

2012-01-25 Thread Neville Michie
, Neville Michie On 25/01/2012, at 12:52 PM, Jim Lux wrote: On 1/24/12 3:19 PM, J. Forster wrote: Is the USNO almana/ephemeris still published in hard copy every year? That had moon timing, etc. You can download pieces from the Astronomical Applications website at USNO. Or you can buy a copy

Re: [time-nuts] finding time astronomically.

2012-01-23 Thread Neville Michie
allows a mean time clock to show the time of noon each day (passage of the Sun through the meridian) cheers, Neville Michie On 24/01/2012, at 3:59 PM, J. Forster wrote: At the solstices, the derivative of the declination goes through just about to zero, just like a sine wave. -John

Re: [time-nuts] Thermal insulation choice?

2012-01-06 Thread Neville Michie
it is mainly air. I wonder if TVB knows what the brown foam in 10811 is? Does it have a radiation absorbing powder in it? cheers, Neville Michie ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman

Re: [time-nuts] FE-5680A Rb Questions

2011-12-16 Thread Neville Michie
Does the FE-5680A have a similar Rb cell to the LPRO-101? If so do they have finite lamp life, (can you find the one you buy has little life left?) Or by not reporting the status of the lamp no-one worries about it? cheers, Neville Michie ___ time

Re: [time-nuts] metric / English

2011-12-16 Thread Neville Michie
are not metric but imperial, 19 threads per inch? Incidently the Whitworth threads, with included angle of 55 degrees and coarse pitch are ideal for soft materials like Plexiglass (perspex, methyl methacrylate). cheers, Neville Michie On 17/12/2011, at 5:48 AM, J. Forster wrote

[time-nuts] Solstice Puzzle

2011-12-16 Thread Neville Michie
be a nearby box containing a Rb or GPS time standard.) A second or two may be needed for them to reorganise if they are moved. It must be possible to design them, but an elegant design has eluded me. Merry Solstice, Neville Michie ___ time-nuts mailing

Re: [time-nuts] gravity controlled pendulumn clock?

2011-12-13 Thread Neville Michie
from first principles. At least with metric you can keep looking until you find 5 books that agree, you can see the value with the slipped decimal, and then you may have values that may be reliable or at least stolen from the same source. And you get your answer in Watts. cheers, Neville Michie

Re: [time-nuts] synch for pendulum clock....

2011-12-11 Thread Neville Michie
that added or subtracted from the force of gravity on the bob. The field was applied for several cycles until the observed error was corrected. A PLL could use this to correct a pendulum. cheers, Neville Michie On 12/12/2011, at 8:32 AM, Brian, WA1ZMS wrote: This was talked about several years

Re: [time-nuts] Those pesky Neutrinos again...

2011-11-21 Thread Neville Michie
Has anyone thought about the fact that verticals converge towards the centre of the earth? The surface distance is greater than the distance at a depth. A map distance is made less, a few hundred metres underground. Just another thought, Cheers, Neville Michie

Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather

2011-10-29 Thread Neville Michie
Thanks John, I should be able to sort it out now. thanks, Neville Michie On 29/10/2011, at 7:57 PM, John Miles wrote: -Original Message- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts- boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Neville Michie Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 9:30 PM

[time-nuts] Lady Heather

2011-10-28 Thread Neville Michie
obvious that I am missing, cheers, Neville Michie ___ 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.

Re: [time-nuts] Speedy neutrino puzzle solved

2011-10-15 Thread Neville Michie
Now if tvb had loaded up his van with caesium clocks and driven back and forth between the two stations several times, then corrected for altitude/gravity effects, would he not have revealed the timing problem? cheers, Neville Michie On 16/10/2011, at 8:46 AM, Jim Palfreyman wrote: http

Re: [time-nuts] the end of light bulbs as we know it was Re: Safe power-up. was (Solartron 7075 ...)

2011-10-11 Thread Neville Michie
press, runs with full revs but stops when the drill jams. It will be a pity to see them turn to unobtainium. cheers, Neville Michie On 12/10/2011, at 9:05 AM, Mark Sims wrote: I now have my house converted over completely to LED bulbs... over 300 of them (mostly PAR16/PAR20/PAR30/PAR38

Re: [time-nuts] [Solved] Looking for multiple PPS timestamp logging

2011-10-03 Thread Neville Michie
That looks like a great solution for monitoring oscillators/GPSDOs. Where to find an application that inputs RS232 and writes a file? cheers, Neville Michie On 04/10/2011, at 6:54 AM, Tom Van Baak wrote: Hal, Don, I too have tried all the PC-based (serial/parallel port) solutions. As we

Re: [time-nuts] Fast than light neutrino

2011-09-25 Thread Neville Michie
I may be a bit naive, but how would physically carrying several caesium clocks back and forth compare to these fibre optic methods? cheers, Neville Michie ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi

Re: [time-nuts] HP 10811 Response I Replies

2011-09-22 Thread Neville Michie
seem to me to be a problem of the measurement system rather than the item being tested. Cheers, Neville Michie On 23/09/2011, at 9:07 AM, Rick Karlquist wrote: Perry Sandeen wrote: Wrote: Doing what you describe will result in a very sensitive humidity sensor, having eliminated

Re: [time-nuts] From Sundials to Atomic Clocks

2011-09-08 Thread Neville Michie
Thanks Randall, It downloaded from you OK, I too could not get it directly in Sydney. cheers, Neville Michie On 09/09/2011, at 8:32 AM, Randall Prentice wrote: Have uploaded a copy in NZ. http://prento.homelinux.net/1796.pdf Couldn't download off TelstraClear, had to use Actrix links

Re: [time-nuts] GPSDO for my rubber duckie

2011-08-01 Thread Neville Michie
or so. cheers, Neville Michie ___ 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.

Re: [time-nuts] Rb cooling

2011-07-17 Thread Neville Michie
expected life. cheers, Neville Michie On 18/07/2011, at 1:59 PM, Chuck Harris wrote: For all of this attention to cooling the oven on the Rb standards, has anyone seen any failures that are attributable to heat? I sort of doubt it. -Chuck Harris ewkeh...@aol.com wrote: I monitor and fan cool

Re: [time-nuts] 60 Hz measurement party

2011-06-26 Thread Neville Michie
because few homes have 3 phases. cheers, Neville Michie ___ 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.

Re: [time-nuts] No more 60Hz, How do I discipline 120VAC 60Hz from a UPS

2011-06-25 Thread Neville Michie
An interesting question about making a 50/60 hertz source, Does a 120 to 12 volt transformer have enough inductance to use as a 12 to 120 volt transformer? Remember, the inductance is proportional to the square of the no of turns, where as voltage is proportional. cheers, Neville Michie

Re: [time-nuts] Bob Pease

2011-06-20 Thread Neville Michie
Mine did! Sad to hear of his departure, Neville Michie On 21/06/2011, at 1:05 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message 4dff5c52.4070...@erols.com, Chuck Harris writes: One important thing to note is he wasn't wearing his seat belts. Does a 1969 VW Beetle even have them ? -- Poul

Re: [time-nuts] locate 6 digit digital clock

2011-06-11 Thread Neville Michie
TRY http://www.vk7krj.com/ham_stuff.htm Neville On 12/06/2011, at 6:58 AM, Ken , VK7KRJ wrote: Aarghh- it's too early in the morning for thinking- here is the url!! http://www.vk7krj.com/ham_stuff.html On 2011-06-12 06:55, Ken , VK7KRJ wrote: It's not up to time-nuts standard, but here is

Re: [time-nuts] Sidereal timekeeping

2011-05-19 Thread Neville Michie
that were in the original. cheers, Neville Michie On 19/05/2011, at 9:35 PM, Chuck Harris wrote: An actual quartz analog wristwatch wouldn't do something so mundane as to use a 50uf capacitor to drive the coils. They do this: DRIVER-A-COIL

Re: [time-nuts] Sidereal timekeeping

2011-05-18 Thread Neville Michie
on at least 4 different types of quartz clock, usually from a 5 volt logic signal. Cheers, Neville Michie ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow

Re: [time-nuts] Sidereal timekeeping

2011-05-16 Thread Neville Michie
polarity quartz clock motor?) It can also be done with a micro if you have the skills. cheers, Neville Michie On 16/05/2011, at 8:02 PM, iov...@inwind.it wrote: The background of my request is an OT story. Just to mention briefly, I already have an ordinary (non-radio-controlled) clock machine

Re: [time-nuts] Sidereal timekeeping

2011-05-16 Thread Neville Michie
pulse is added to the count chain. The output is thus shifted to a higher frequency. If you are interested I can try to design the circuit for you, I have intend to build a Siderial clock dial for my TBolt. cheers, Neville Michie On 17/05/2011, at 7:58 AM, iov...@inwind.it wrote: Neville

Re: [time-nuts] Tbolt LCD Monitor - No DAC reading

2011-05-12 Thread Neville Michie
? I have inserted the 3 silicon diodes into the 5V supply line to suit the micro. I hope answers to my questions will help many other TBolt users. Cheers, Neville Michie On 12/05/2011, at 4:40 PM, David Bobbett wrote: Both myself and a few other time-nuts have had a problem with the LCD

[time-nuts] Proton Precession Magnetometer

2011-04-05 Thread Neville Michie
in a laboratory, as the AC magnetic field drives them crazy. I am thinking of lock in amplifiers and phase locked loops. Also toroidal coil or paired coils. Can anyone in this group point me to an easy to construct and fiercely accurate design to build? cheers, Neville Michie

Re: [time-nuts] Result of Earth Quake speeds up earth?

2011-03-15 Thread Neville Michie
in the planets rotation, i.e. the rate of rotation stays the same but the time of sunrise has shifted slightly. Maybe that someone who knows about these things will tell us more. cheers, Neville Michie On 16/03/2011, at 12:29 AM, jimlux wrote: On 3/15/11 6:20 AM, jimlux wrote: On 3/15/11 1

Re: [time-nuts] Thunderbolt Supply

2011-02-11 Thread Neville Michie
supply. A 20 AH battery gives more than 2 days backup. As the 12Volt is the sensitive input, the linear regulator should keep the noise down. The whole setup is designed to use minimum power. cheers, Neville Michie On 11/02/2011, at 10:16 AM, Larry McDavid wrote: Greetings! I am a new member

Re: [time-nuts] Clock Calibration

2011-01-29 Thread Neville Michie
into a homebrew BCD DAC which is recorded by a HOBO logger to give very accurate logging of phase for whichever clock the proximity is clipped to. It is all low power, saves serious frequency counters, PC et. al. so you can log continuously for years without a major power bill. cheers, Neville Michie

Re: [time-nuts] Symmetricom CSAC is Cs acting like a Rb unit

2011-01-19 Thread Neville Michie
by by changing the side arm temperature. cheers, Neville Michie On 20/01/2011, at 6:55 AM, Magnus Danielson wrote: On 01/19/2011 06:44 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In messagedbb70463b9d04f6589fbf97b2e4be...@vectron.com, Bob Camp writes: Conventional gas cells have a finite lifetime

Re: [time-nuts] Completely OT: Removing electrolytics of leaking capacitors from a pcb

2011-01-19 Thread Neville Michie
. cheers, Neville Michie On 20/01/2011, at 12:37 PM, Philip Pemberton wrote: On 19/01/11 14:57, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Try a mild acid like citric (lemon-) or citric (vinegar). Vinegar would be acetic acid, the same stuff that's used in photographic stop bath (although there are some 'non

Re: [time-nuts] CS reservoir depletion

2011-01-13 Thread Neville Michie
to migrate through the glass into the bulb. Sodium accumulated in the bulb. It is obviously a slow process, but then you did not need to put much Cs in the bulb. Why not use it to recharge an alkali metal lamp? cheers, Neville Michie On 12/01/2011, at 11:06 AM, scmcgr...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [time-nuts] CS reservoir depletion

2011-01-13 Thread Neville Michie
It sounds like you need to dip a corner of the device in liquid nitrogen and allow the metal to evaporate and condense in the cold corner. Or is it sublimation. I do not know how long it would take. cheers, Neville Michie On 13/01/2011, at 11:31 PM, Chuck Harris wrote: I suppose that would

Re: [time-nuts] OT: Rustrak Strip Chart Recorder

2011-01-03 Thread Neville Michie
have been using off the shelf data loggers instead of the Rustraks. cheers, Neville Michie On 03/01/2011, at 7:14 AM, asma...@fc.up.pt wrote: Hello! I need to change the 60 Hz motors of my recorders for using them here in Europe. I found a suitable replacement for 230 V/ 50 Hz but I need to re

Re: [time-nuts] Got 60HZ?

2010-12-09 Thread Neville Michie
or 60kHz) which will then divide down to 60Hz with very little phase noise. The only difficulty is the need for a reset that is synchronised with the PPS signal. (use a D latch or two) cheers, Neville Michie Recently I bought a Efratom Ru frequency standard from eBay and a frequency

Re: [time-nuts] temperature stability basics

2010-11-26 Thread Neville Michie
that the foil is always normal to the thermal gradient. The project is not finished yet but the thermal insulation is now going to be many times better than with just thick slabs of foam. cheers, Neville Michie On 26/11/2010, at 6:24 PM, beale wrote: In an attempt to educate myself about temperature

Re: [time-nuts] temperature stability basics

2010-11-26 Thread Neville Michie
. If you make a sandwich with N layers of metal foil, the radiation transmission is reduced by 1/N. Cheers, Neville Michie ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts

Re: [time-nuts] OT loosing things

2010-11-12 Thread Neville Michie
but no straight blade screw drivers. cheers, Neville Michie ___ 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.

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