Re: [time-nuts] unknown GPSDO

2017-07-18 Thread Tim Shoppa
The original Brooks Shera unit was 20 years ago and is pretty well documented in QST and his website. In the original the loop filter timeconstant was set by jumpers or DIPswitches. And I think the EFC gain factor was set somewhere else (DIPswitch? Resistor network? Both?) Shera's webpage

Re: [time-nuts] unknown GPSDO

2017-07-18 Thread David C. Partridge
ISTR that you started it with a short time constant to get locked, and once you had lock you would increase the time constant in a few steps to a final value of (say) 1000s or so. Dave -Original Message- From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Volker Esper

Re: [time-nuts] unknown GPSDO

2017-07-18 Thread Volker Esper
Thanks so far. I will have a look at the docs. The machine is running well, particularly the OCXO is performing very good when free running (without GPS signal). It is stable and its ADEV looks good (2E-10 at 10s). Not so the overall ADEV (when GPS locked) (1E-5 at 10s). It seems to not having

Re: [time-nuts] RS232 output on a 53181A

2017-07-18 Thread Angus
Hi, Also, since it's a p rather than any other character, my guess is that it probably was deliberate - although whether it was meant to be shipped like that is another question. Angus. On Wed, 12 Jul 2017 11:56:24 -0400, you wrote: >Well ASCII * is 2a in Hex, p is 70 so that seems an

[time-nuts] 5370B Input Board Repair [WAS: 5370B Question / help needed]

2017-07-18 Thread Thomas Allgeier
Hello All Again, I’ve got my 5370B going now and in the process made a “discovery” which I thought might be worth sharing: The A3 input board is a through-hole PCB with a few SMD capacitors and resistors on the reverse of the “switch area”. It turns out that on my 5370 (2410A00777) these