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 th

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 stra

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 game..

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 modulat

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 wrote: > On 12/30/12 8:28 PM, Bob Camp wrote: >> Hi >> >

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] 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 recei

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

2012-12-30 Thread Bob Camp
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…. Bob On Dec 30, 2012, at 11:16 PM, Jim Lux wrote: > On 12/30/

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

2012-12-30 Thread Jim Lux
On 12/30/12 8:03 PM, Bob Camp wrote: Hi They are using some pretty major fields in that paper. As they point out, high level tests likely do not extrapolate well to low level performance. Their data shows the impact diminishing quickly as the field drops. If you accept their 1x10^-11 per gaus

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

2012-12-30 Thread Jim Lux
On 12/30/12 11:35 AM, Attila Kinali wrote: On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 09:53:51 -0800 Said Jackson wrote: Volker, I wonder if you also see fan-induced spurs in the phase noise from 1Hz to 100Hz. I would not be surprised if the fan vibration adds significant spurs to the 10811A crystal. How susceptib

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

2012-12-30 Thread Bob Camp
Hi They are using some pretty major fields in that paper. As they point out, high level tests likely do not extrapolate well to low level performance. Their data shows the impact diminishing quickly as the field drops. If you accept their 1x10^-11 per gauss number as correct, your OCXO might s

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

2012-12-30 Thread Arthur Dent
Bob Camp- "A quartz crystal in insensitive to magnetic field. This being Time Nut's that's not the whole story. Ferrite core inductors can indeed exhibit a bit of static mag field sensitivity. Your OCXO may or may not have some in it." "Precision crystals have clips made from nickel. The posts

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

2012-12-30 Thread Bob Camp
Hi …. sorry for the previous blank message…. A lot depends on what kind of inductors they are. If it's a static field, then you have to saturate the core. That's pretty hard unless the core is ferrite. Most powdered iron and (of course) air are fairly immune to static field. If it's an AC fiel

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

2012-12-30 Thread Bob Camp
On Dec 30, 2012, at 9:25 PM, Said Jackson wrote: > Bob, > > But all those inductors surrounding the crystal will be sensitive to magnetic > flux variations and could cause spurs and jitter.. > > Bye > Said > > Sent From iPhone > > On Dec 30, 2012, at 18:04, Bob Camp wrote: > >> Hi >> >>

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

2012-12-30 Thread Said Jackson
Bob, But all those inductors surrounding the crystal will be sensitive to magnetic flux variations and could cause spurs and jitter.. Bye Said Sent From iPhone On Dec 30, 2012, at 18:04, Bob Camp wrote: > Hi > > Precision crystals have clips made from nickel. The posts are likely Kovar. >

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

2012-12-30 Thread Bob Camp
Hi Precision crystals have clips made from nickel. The posts are likely Kovar. That's been true for a *long* time. Neither one is very magnetic. Both likely are hard enough to be even less magnetic than they might be. Bob On Dec 30, 2012, at 6:27 PM, Magnus Danielson wrote: > Bob, > > On 3

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

2012-12-30 Thread Said Jackson
Hi Attila, Makes a big difference if there are AC magnetic fields in the system, they can create spurs through mutual inductance. Our Fury GPSDO is designed completely without any switching regulators for that reason. One customer used it on helicopters for measuring magnetic field variations

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

2012-12-30 Thread Magnus Danielson
Bob, On 30/12/12 23:27, Bob Camp wrote: Hi A quartz crystal in insensitive to magnetic field. This being Time Nut's that's not the whole story. As I recall it, the steel clips sometimes used to hold the resonators is claimed to be one of the sources for static magnetic field sensitivity. Th

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

2012-12-30 Thread Bob Camp
Hi A quartz crystal in insensitive to magnetic field. This being Time Nut's that's not the whole story. Ferrite core inductors can indeed exhibit a bit of static mag field sensitivity. Your OCXO may or may not have some in it. In the case of AC fields you can always have induction. There will b

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

2012-12-30 Thread Attila Kinali
On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 09:53:51 -0800 Said Jackson wrote: > Volker, I wonder if you also see fan-induced spurs in the phase > noise from 1Hz to 100Hz. I would not be surprised if the fan > vibration adds significant spurs to the 10811A crystal. How susceptible are OCXOs on magnetic fields? Most fan

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

2012-12-22 Thread Volker Esper
ker Esper" To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2012 8:44 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 101, Issue 152 Plot 1: MDEV of the time interval reported by GPSDO Yes, Said, that are important issues. By the way: I&#x

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

2012-12-22 Thread Alan Melia
12 8:44 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 101, Issue 152 Plot 1: MDEV of the time interval reported by GPSDO Yes, Said, that are important issues. By the way: I'm now writing in two threads, I don't know, why the original thread ("Z3805A cooling requirements

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

2012-12-22 Thread Volker Esper
Plot 1: MDEV of the time interval reported by GPSDO Yes, Said, that are important issues. By the way: I'm now writing in two threads, I don't know, why the original thread ("Z3805A cooling requirements?") was splitted... Can we please move to the original thread? I am sure, that the noise of

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

2012-12-21 Thread Said Jackson
Hi Volker, What is being plotted here? Efc? Time interval as reported by the GPSDO? External counter versus a stable reference? It looks like the resolution is approaching 10ns/s (1E-08 at 1s), and that the short term effects may be hidden in this noise? The effects are clearly visible in your

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

2012-12-21 Thread Volker Esper
Vibration: interesting consideration. In my experiment the fan is very softly coupled to the case (since it is lying on some soft cables), furthermore the power supply is a different one - not the one that powers the Z3805. I've tried to avoid those effects. I send some ADEV plots in an hour.

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

2012-12-21 Thread Said Jackson
Mark, Your plot still shows excursions of +/-1E-010, about 100x higher base noise than the Z3801A/Z3805A are capable of achieving. Wonder where that noise is coming from? This noise is probably much higher than the thermal effects. The original post was the question "does my Z380xA have reduced