Re: [time-nuts] PRS10 schematic or part identification help

2012-12-31 Thread Nathaniel Bezanson
Charles P. Steinmetz  wrote: For schematics, see http://www.ko4bb.com/manuals/.  Search for prs10. Aha, I don't know why I didn't see that when I searched around. Bookmarked! The response from this list, to a newbie with a probably-obvious problem, is incredibly helpful and welcoming. Thank

Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 101, Issue 152

2012-12-31 Thread Hal Murray
jim...@earthlink.net said: When designing the system to do coherent two way ranging to the Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter, we found that the rotating magnetic field (because the spacecraft spins at 2RPM in Jupiter's magnetic field) was enough to modulate the circuits that track the received

[time-nuts] FE5682A inside pics

2012-12-31 Thread Fabio Eboli
Hello, in the last day of this ugly year I received a pair of FE5682A. The two have visibly different tags, probably are from differen age, and one has the word FAIL written on it. The pinut is similar to LPRO-101 see: http://www.febo.com/pipermail/time-nuts/2012-November/071937.html but the

Re: [time-nuts] FE5682A inside pics

2012-12-31 Thread Fabio Eboli
By the way, about the psu the unit contains this module: http://www.farnell.com/datasheets/14431.pdf so probably internally it works at 12V. Fabio. Il 2012-12-31 14:44 Fabio Eboli ha scritto: Hello, in the last day of this ugly year I received a pair of FE5682A. ...

[time-nuts] ...question ...

2012-12-31 Thread Pete M
Are any of the Time Nut members also watch ( wrist and pocket) nuts like I am? Pete WA2ODO -- ++CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE++ The information in this email may be confidential and/or privileged. This email is intended to be reviewed by only the individual or organization named above. If

Re: [time-nuts] ...question ...

2012-12-31 Thread Tom Van Baak
Are any of the Time Nut members also watch ( wrist and pocket) nuts like I am? Pete WA2ODO Hello Pete, It's about time you joined time-nuts. How are all those HP 5334B frequency counter's working? To answer your question -- yes, there may be some cross-over between the

Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 101, Issue 152

2012-12-31 Thread Jim Lux
On 12/30/12 8:28 PM, Bob Camp wrote: Hi Indeed, there will always be some EMF into the EFC from some field. You can never really get rid of a loop with some cross section in the EFC circuit. Most of us don't get to worry about 1x10^-16 at 1,000 seconds on our OCXO's…. Yes. I think it's not

Re: [time-nuts] FE5682A inside pics

2012-12-31 Thread Fabio Eboli
Positive update, in the broken unit the pin 10 goes to power module input, while the pin 8 goes to power module ground, and there is grounded. I powered the good unit and it locked in few minutes, wothout driving the EFC, the frequency seem very near the FE5680 I set against the GPS. The output

Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 101, Issue 152

2012-12-31 Thread Bob Camp
Hi I suspect that your ion standard will have some issues from magnetic field. Quartz it's self has no magnetic sensitivity. Most atomic gizmos have sensitivity as part of their basic physics. Bob On Dec 31, 2012, at 10:41 AM, Jim Lux jim...@earthlink.net wrote: On 12/30/12 8:28 PM, Bob

Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 101, Issue 152

2012-12-31 Thread Jim Lux
On 12/31/12 12:55 AM, Hal Murray wrote: jim...@earthlink.net said: When designing the system to do coherent two way ranging to the Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter, we found that the rotating magnetic field (because the spacecraft spins at 2RPM in Jupiter's magnetic field) was enough to

Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 101, Issue 152

2012-12-31 Thread Jim Lux
On 12/31/12 7:56 AM, Bob Camp wrote: Hi I suspect that your ion standard will have some issues from magnetic field. Quartz it's self has no magnetic sensitivity. Most atomic gizmos have sensitivity as part of their basic physics. yes.. shielding of the physics package is part of the

Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 101, Issue 152

2012-12-31 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 31/12/12 16:56, Bob Camp wrote: Hi I suspect that your ion standard will have some issues from magnetic field. Quartz it's self has no magnetic sensitivity. Most atomic gizmos have sensitivity as part of their basic physics. All atomic clocks that I know of have this sensitivity. One

Re: [time-nuts] FE5682A inside pics

2012-12-31 Thread Ed Palmer
Hi Fabio, A few years ago I got one of the programmable FE5680 units. It included the same small, square board that I can see in your pictures. Only 3 wires: red, black, and orange. My unit didn't have any EFC control. On a hunch, I checked the orange wire and found that it was the EFC

Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 101, Issue 152

2012-12-31 Thread Jim Lux
On 12/31/12 8:13 AM, Magnus Danielson wrote: On 31/12/12 16:56, Bob Camp wrote: Hi I suspect that your ion standard will have some issues from magnetic field. Quartz it's self has no magnetic sensitivity. Most atomic gizmos have sensitivity as part of their basic physics. All atomic clocks

Re: [time-nuts] An embedded NTP server

2012-12-31 Thread Michael Tharp
On 12/28/2012 12:34 PM, Chris Albertson wrote: One idea that I like is to first get a large FPGA. Then you load in a soft CPU and then you run an OS and NTP on the soft CPU. Inside the softCPU the counter is implemented like it is in a real CPU but you can add the ability for a PPS to latch