[time-nuts] Fwd: Fwd: HP5061B Versus HP5071 Cesium Line Frequencies

2017-06-04 Thread Donald E. Pauly
I stand by my remark that thermistors have been obsolete for over 40 years. The only exception that I know of is cesium beam tubes that must withstand a 350° C bakeout. Thermistors are unstable and manufactured with a witches brew straight out of MacBeth. Their output voltages are tiny and are t

[time-nuts] Fwd: Fwd: HP5061B Versus HP5071 Cesium Line Frequencies

2017-06-03 Thread Donald E. Pauly
https://www.febo.com/pipermail/time-nuts/2017-June/date.html I am familiar with this effect. My specialty is switching amplifiers and I wrote the classic paper for Motorola on the subject, see http://gonascent.com/papers/an1042.pdf . Ripple in the dc from a switching amplifier is less than a par