Re: [time-nuts] getting a grip on 10811 drift (beginner-ishquestion)

2012-11-09 Thread Chris Howard
My perpetually drifting 10811 pretty quickly made it to the negative voltage rail on the control voltage. I was looking at the oscillator output with an O-scope and it looked pretty nasty. My equipment is not so hot, so I first chalked that up to bad probes. But I did some google work on that

Re: [time-nuts] getting a grip on 10811 drift (beginner-ishquestion)

2012-11-09 Thread Azelio Boriani
Unfortunately, experience is a lantern lighting the way already done... and it takes months to forge a good sword: no one should break any sword. On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 10:53 PM, Chris Howard ch...@elfpen.com wrote: My perpetually drifting 10811 pretty quickly made it to the negative voltage

Re: [time-nuts] getting a grip on 10811 drift (beginner-ishquestion)

2012-11-09 Thread WarrenS
receiver. ws * [time-nuts] getting a grip on 10811 drift (beginner-ishquestion) Chris Howard Fri Nov 9 21:53:39 UTC 2012 My perpetually drifting 10811 pretty quickly made it to the negative voltage rail on the control voltage. I was looking at the oscillator output with an O-scope

Re: [time-nuts] getting a grip on 10811 drift (beginner-ishquestion)

2012-11-05 Thread Bob Camp
05, 2012 4:53 PM To: time-nuts@febo.com Subject: Re: [time-nuts] getting a grip on 10811 drift (beginner-ishquestion) On 11/5/2012 3:16 PM, Richard H McCorkle wrote: The EFC specs on a 10811 are a frequency change of 1 Hz over a -5v to +5v EFC span or a sensitivity of roughly 1e-8 per

Re: [time-nuts] getting a grip on 10811 drift (beginner-ishquestion)

2012-11-05 Thread Rick Karlquist
Bob Camp wrote: Hi If you have one of the 10811's out of a Z3801, then it's EFC range is ~ 10X a normal part. There apparently are other odd EFC ranges out there. Bob For example, the 5071A cesium standard has 10X range (modified 10811). I guess in the 5061 you just had to tweak the

Re: [time-nuts] getting a grip on 10811 drift (beginner-ishquestion)

2012-11-05 Thread EWKehren
I have three 5071 10811's all have below 1 E-12 AV from 1 to 100 seconds. Bert Kehren In a message dated 11/5/2012 7:07:52 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, rich...@karlquist.com writes: Bob Camp wrote: Hi If you have one of the 10811's out of a Z3801, then it's EFC range is ~ 10X a