Re: [time-nuts] ADEV test setup [was GPSDO TC Damping]

2009-01-10 Thread Magnus Danielson
Tom Van Baak skrev: I'd like to see a similar test conducted against a local Cs clock (and/or maser), just to get everything on one graph. -- john, KE5FX It's on the list. One earlier idea was to measure tc=1 10 100 1000 10k simultaneously with 5 Thunderbolts, but I suspected that unit

Re: [time-nuts] ADEV test setup [was GPSDO TC Damping]

2009-01-10 Thread Steve Rooke
Bruce, thanks, I'm soaking it all up. 73, Steve 2009/1/10 Bruce Griffiths bruce.griffi...@xtra.co.nz: Steve Steve Rooke wrote: Bruce, Thanks for the detailed rundown. Looking at the picket-fence method, this looks possible for me but I will have to get hold of the reference standard. I

Re: [time-nuts] GPSDO TC Damping

2009-01-10 Thread Magnus Danielson
Dick, Sorry, Magnus, I didn't mean to put words in your mouth. No worries, I just did not want it to be raised to truth. I was remembering last Fall, when you suggested that people look at your ADEV plot and to be mindful of the of the bounding slopes of the curves. If I've

Re: [time-nuts] Standards sought for immunity of shielded cable links to power-frequency ground loops

2009-01-10 Thread Magnus Danielson
Joseph, time-nuts-boun...@febo.com wrote on 01/07/2009 10:47:46 PM: Joseph, Could be a differential TX and RX. I recall that they send a RS422 signal. Depending on the speed, RS422 works fine with transformers. Yes. It would be 10 MHz or 20 MHz, depending on coding. Or 5 MHz, so

Re: [time-nuts] GPSDO TC

2009-01-10 Thread Magnus Danielson
Bruce, Yes, but the bump comes from the increase gain around the resonance and spoils the OCXO/GPS cross-over. The simplified noise-bandwidth measure does not really comply here since they usually build on a simplified model of noise type (white noise - gaussian). A simple check in

Re: [time-nuts] GPSDO TC

2009-01-10 Thread Bruce Griffiths
Hej Magnus Magnus Danielson wrote: Bruce, Yes, but the bump comes from the increase gain around the resonance and spoils the OCXO/GPS cross-over. The simplified noise-bandwidth measure does not really comply here since they usually build on a simplified model of noise type (white

Re: [time-nuts] GPSDO TC

2009-01-10 Thread Magnus Danielson
Hej Bruce, As the PLL filters the noise of the OCXO and passes noise from the input side and the noise have several different components to it from either source. You can't really extrapolate direction the results of an asynchronous reciever such as the M12+T to that of a synchronous

Re: [time-nuts] Standards sought for immunity of shielded cable links to power-frequency ground loops

2009-01-10 Thread Joe Gwinn
Magnus, At 10:31 AM + 1/10/09, time-nuts-requ...@febo.com wrote: Message: 5 Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:06:39 +0100 From: Magnus Danielson mag...@rubidium.dyndns.org Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Standards sought for immunity of shielded cable links to power-frequency ground loops To:

Re: [time-nuts] Standards sought for immunity of shielded cable links to power-frequency ground loops

2009-01-10 Thread Magnus Danielson
Joe, For digital signals (1PPS, various triggers), it's RS422 over 100 ohm twinax (fancy shielded twisted pair). The 10 MHz sinewave is sent over a pair of 50 ohm coax links, with the signals 180 degrees out of phase. This is acheived with a pair of hybrid transformers which convert

Re: [time-nuts] Standards sought for immunity of shielded cable links to power-frequency ground loops

2009-01-10 Thread David C. Partridge
Get 'em to use twin-ax (twisted pair inside screen) like the IBM AS/400 terminals (5250?) send differential signal down the cable. Dave -Original Message- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Joe Gwinn Sent: 10 January 2009 15:23 To:

[time-nuts] Frequency Electronics FE-5602B

2009-01-10 Thread EWKehren
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Re: [time-nuts] ADEV test setup [was GPSDO TC Damping]

2009-01-10 Thread Bill Janssen
WarrenS wrote: Bruce said: The critical requirement is that the 2 standards being compared are statistically independent. Comparing a pair of Thunderbolts GPSDOs with similar time constants and damping will give optimistic results for Tau comparable with or greater than the loop time

Re: [time-nuts] Standards sought for immunity of shielded cable links to power-frequency ground loops

2009-01-10 Thread Lux, James P
Or 1553, for that matter -Original Message- From: David C. Partridge david.partri...@dsl.pipex.com Get 'em to use twin-ax (twisted pair inside screen) like the IBM AS/400 terminals (5250?) send differential signal down the cable. Dave ___

Re: [time-nuts] Standards sought for immunity of shielded cable links to power-frequency ground loops

2009-01-10 Thread Joe Gwinn
Magnus, At 6:02 PM + 1/10/09, time-nuts-requ...@febo.com wrote: Message: 4 Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:02:09 +0100 From: Magnus Danielson mag...@rubidium.dyndns.org Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Standards sought for immunity of shielded cable links to power-frequency ground loops To:

Re: [time-nuts] GPSDO TC

2009-01-10 Thread Bruce Griffiths
Magnus Danielson wrote: Hej Bruce, As the PLL filters the noise of the OCXO and passes noise from the input side and the noise have several different components to it from either source. You can't really extrapolate direction the results of an asynchronous reciever such as the M12+T

Re: [time-nuts] ADEV test setup [was GPSDO TC Damping]

2009-01-10 Thread Bruce Griffiths
Bill Janssen wrote: WarrenS wrote: Bruce said: The critical requirement is that the 2 standards being compared are statistically independent. Comparing a pair of Thunderbolts GPSDOs with similar time constants and damping will give optimistic results for Tau comparable with or greater

[time-nuts] ADEV values of Thunderbolt PPS and OSC error estimates

2009-01-10 Thread Mark Sims
Here is two sets of ADEV/OADEV data generated from the PPS and OSC error estimates produced by the Thunderbolt. There is a set from a run where the oscillator was disciplined by GPS and a set where the oscillator was undisciplined. The PPS numbers are probably the best ones to use. Trimble's

[time-nuts] ADEV values of Thunderbolt PPS and OSC error estimates

2009-01-10 Thread Mark Sims
Another try to see if I can get some stinkin' CR/LF spacing out of hotmail this week. Here is two sets of ADEV/OADEV data generated from the PPS and OSC error estimates produced by the Thunderbolt. There is a set from a run where the oscillator was disciplined by GPS and a set where

[time-nuts] ADEV values of Thunderbolt PPS and OSC error estimates

2009-01-10 Thread Mark Sims
I just noticed that the ADEV values that I posted for the disciplined oscillator were for a unit fresh off the boat from China. It had not been used for several years. It had just completed the self survey right before the run/log was started. Note the rather bad short term ADEVS that just