Re: [time-nuts] Improving the stability of crystal oscillators

2007-10-11 Thread Neville Michie
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY Hi All, I am not trying to start an argument, but I would like to point out that PID controllers are only good at controlling a certain class of system. For a system that has a coal truck that must dump its coal down a

Re: [time-nuts] Improving the stability of crystal oscillators

2007-10-11 Thread Tom Van Baak
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY Maybe because it was written back in 1930's, but one of the better discussions of quartz temperature control, including considerations of insulation and isothermal layers (attenuation and conduction) are in the patents for the

Re: [time-nuts] Improving the stability of crystal oscillators

2007-10-11 Thread Bruce Griffiths
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY Neville Michie wrote: Hi All, I am not trying to start an argument, but I would like to point out that PID controllers are only good at controlling a certain class of system. For a system that has a coal truck that must

Re: [time-nuts] Improving the stability of crystal oscillators

2007-10-11 Thread Richard (Rick) Karlquist
Neville Michie wrote: I am not trying to start an argument, but I would like to point out that PID controllers are only good at controlling a certain class of system. The thermal block controllers work well because of the dominant integrating effect of the block, the time delay for a

Re: [time-nuts] Improving the stability of crystal oscillators

2007-10-11 Thread Richard (Rick) Karlquist
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY The 10811 has an ANALOG oven control loop. The gain is set to be just below the oscillation point. This is due to the stability limits dictated by the oven mass and (believe it or not) the size of integrator capacitor that

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2007-10-11 Thread Tom Duckworth
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY Dear Time-Nuts members, A member of your list, Pete Rawson, suggested I let your members know about our company, and its products, that has a relatively new US presence. We design, manufacturer, and market a complete

Re: [time-nuts] Improving the stability of crystal oscillators

2007-10-11 Thread Rick Karlquist
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY At HP, in the 90's, we did a lot of brainstorming about vacuum ovens. This never seemed to make sense to us. If you actually achieve high amounts of thermal resistance, then you can't get the heat out of the oven. And if you

Re: [time-nuts] Improving the stability of crystal oscillators

2007-10-11 Thread Brooke Clarke
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY Hi Tom: Very interesting. How about building a circuit to drive those GR crystals? The same man is the inventor of all four of the early GR patents, James Kilton Clapp, of Clapp Oscillator fame.

Re: [time-nuts] Improving the stability of crystal oscillators

2007-10-11 Thread Neville Michie
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY On 11/10/2007, at 10:23 PM, Bruce Griffiths wrote: If one uses resistive heating then some linearisation improves the performance as the heat from the heating element is proportional to the square of the voltage across

Re: [time-nuts] Improving the stability of crystal oscillators

2007-10-11 Thread Bruce Griffiths
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY Neville Michie wrote: If you use a transistor as a heater, the full supply voltage is across the element all the time, so heating is proportional to the current flowing. Neville Neville However using a transistor

Re: [time-nuts] Improving the stability of crystal oscillators

2007-10-11 Thread Bruce Griffiths
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Rick, thanks for the pointers to the E1938A oven quality. Today there are some interesting new technologies which allow small double, or even tripple (not sure if that makes sense) ovens

Re: [time-nuts] Improving the stability of crystal oscillators

2007-10-11 Thread Rick Karlquist
We went through this tradeoff on the E1938A. Resistive heaters can be distributed. However, it is very inefficient to drive them with transistors, because then you waste a lot of power heating the transistors, which is waste heat if resistive heating is used. Prior to the 10544, they just put

Re: [time-nuts] Improving the stability of crystal oscillators

2007-10-11 Thread christopher hoover
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY Rick Karlquist N6RK wrote: If you want to soup up at 10811 oven, externally wire in a larger capacitor in parallel and change the resistors to increase the gain. The 10811 designers did the best they could with what they

Re: [time-nuts] Improving the stability of crystal oscillators

2007-10-11 Thread Magnus Danielson
From: Bruce Griffiths [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Improving the stability of crystal oscillators Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:08:34 +1300 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hej Bruce and Neville, Neville Michie wrote: If you use a transistor as a heater, the full supply voltage is

Re: [time-nuts] Improving the stability of crystal oscillators

2007-10-11 Thread SAIDJACK
In a message dated 10/11/2007 14:31:04 Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The lack of radiation shields and an isothermal block enclosing the oscillator components within the vacuum will surely reduce the performance somewhat. Bruce Hi Bruce, yes I would agree, the spec

Re: [time-nuts] Improving the stability of crystal oscillators

2007-10-11 Thread SAIDJACK
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY In a message dated 10/11/2007 11:52:37 Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe Vectron has figured out something we didn't think of or has sufficiently difference constraints that a vacuum makes sense for

Re: [time-nuts] TV sync

2007-10-11 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY Jeffrey Pawlan said the following on 10/07/2007 12:03 PM: All larger TV stations use Cs standards. What you don't know is that the FCC assigns SLIGHTLY different scan frequencies to each station on the same channel in a