[time-nuts] Homebrew Rubidium oscillator, jitter and other tales :-)

2010-08-07 Thread ulmann
Hello all - first of all, I would like to thank you for the many replies I got regarding my first posting a couple of weeks ago where I described my homebrew Rubidium oscillator based on an LPRO-101. During the last couple of days I found enough spare time to dig deeper into some issues. In

Re: [time-nuts] Homebrew Rubidium oscillator, jitter and other tales :-)

2010-08-07 Thread Richard (Rick) Karlquist
ulm...@vaxman.de wrote: blinked. This problem was eventually solved by driving the LED with a discrete transistor instead of a free 74AC14 gate and decoupling this driver with an RC-combination. CMOS logic gates have a totem pole output that is famous for overlap where both transistors on

Re: [time-nuts] Homebrew Rubidium oscillator, jitter and other tales :-)

2010-08-07 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 08/07/2010 07:31 PM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote: ulm...@vaxman.de wrote: blinked. This problem was eventually solved by driving the LED with a discrete transistor instead of a free 74AC14 gate and decoupling this driver with an RC-combination. CMOS logic gates have a totem pole output