What do you, mean with small divisions ? Should a devide by 10 be a to great
step (from 4Mhz to 400kHz)? 400 kHz should be 'easy' for an EZ10B and is
practical formy design...
John,
 
If you think it is usefull information for me, I would be glad with a PDF
copy of the pages in question.

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Morris used it in his timebase, as a divide-by-5 stage, and a dekatron, for
a total of divide-by-50. That clicked a relay at 1 pps, to increment his
stepper relay nixie clock. It was all mounted vertically on a pole, IIRC. 

I bought a bunch of 6AS6 pentodes shortly afterward, and ran a few
phantastron experiments. For a divider, it works like a one-shot, that needs
its cycle to stop just short of the intended time. Say your using 50Hz as
your syncing signal, and you want 10Hz out. Setup your RC timing of the
phantastron to between no less than 80mS+ (say 81mS), and no more than
100mS- (say 99mS). That is adjust it to between 81 to 99mS. Split the
difference, and put it at 90mS. As long as it stays in that range, it will
output a sync'd signal at 100mS (10Hz). If you are using 60Hz, instead, then
that 80mS+ (4 cycles plus) becomes 87mS+ (5 cycles plus). Keep the divisions
small, since they're dependent on the RC component tolerances, and drift
factors.

On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 4:47:08 AM UTC-8, johnk wrote: 

I seem to remember Morris posting that he had used a Phantastron in
something of his?

 

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On 2/10/2014 12:44 PM, Tidak Ada wrote:
> Hmm could be, but despite I have heard about it, I am not familiar with
the
> Phamtastron circuit. Does it deliver a sine or an block/pulse at the
output?
> I have to look for some clear theory.
>
> eric

Eric,

Google does not help with the Phantastron, as someone borrowed the name for
a 
product.

The circuit is also called a Miller sweep circuit. It is used in
oscilloscopes, 
and in old digital pulse circuits as a frequency divider. A pentode tube 
generates a sawtooth wave, and is triggered to reset by a synchronizing
signal 
only when near the end of the sweep.

Look at any old HP frequency counter for a decimal divider using the 
Phantastron. They were also used in early television sync generators. This
is 
why the old television line count was a product of small numbers such as the
US 525 line TV: 525 = 5 * 5 * 7 * 3.

--David Forbes

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