[time-nuts] Digital Scopes - suggestions

2007-10-24 Thread Hal Murray
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY I'm looking for a digital scope. Is there some obvious model(s) that I should keep an eye out for? I don't need one, so I'm willing to wait and I'm flexible on parameters. Mostly what I'm looking for is: reasonable

Re: [time-nuts] Digital Scopes - suggestions

2007-10-24 Thread swingbyte
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY Hal Murray wrote: ); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY I'm looking for a digital scope. Is there some obvious model(s) that I should keep an eye out for? I don't need one, so I'm

[time-nuts] QCM

2007-10-24 Thread Ulrich Bangert
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY Gentlemen, again my question is a bit OT: Has anyone of you personal experience with QCMs (Quarz Crystal Microbalances) and give me a recommendation on a) what surface coating is suggested if the aim is to measure small

Re: [time-nuts] Digital Scopes - suggestions

2007-10-24 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY Hal Murray said the following on 10/24/2007 03:47 AM: ); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY I'm looking for a digital scope. Is there some obvious model(s) that I should keep an eye out

Re: [time-nuts] Digital Scopes - suggestions

2007-10-24 Thread Patrick
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY Hi John I think I have the perfect suggestion for you. I spent 200+ hours researching scopes before I started my business, primarily because I am a cheap bastard. I finally found what I wanted, at the price I wanted. Please

Re: [time-nuts] Digital Scopes - suggestions

2007-10-24 Thread Patrick
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY Hi Brooke I am not exactly sure. You can go into the uS range but I had better check with the Bitscope people about the exact details. I will forward this email. I am sure you will have an answer tomorrow. -Patrick

Re: [time-nuts] Digital Scopes - suggestions

2007-10-24 Thread Patrick
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY I was wondering about that! :-) Patrick Brooke Clarke wrote: Hi Patrick: That should be 10 us not 0 us. Thanks Have Fun, Brooke Clarke http://www.PRC68.com http://www.precisionclock.com

Re: [time-nuts] Parallel voltage regulators

2007-10-24 Thread Alan Melia
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY Hi Tom I dont think you need the resistors these are current limited and the sense is inside the chip so the resistors dont do anything (you are thinking of a negative feedback effect). All that happens in paralled operation is

Re: [time-nuts] Parallel voltage regulators

2007-10-24 Thread Bruce Griffiths
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY Alan Melia wrote: Hi Tom I dont think you need the resistors these are current limited and the sense is inside the chip so the resistors dont do anything (you are thinking of a negative feedback effect). All that happens in

Re: [time-nuts] Parallel voltage regulators

2007-10-24 Thread Bruce Griffiths
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY Magnus Danielson wrote: It is not that hard to acheive 2 A at 24 V after all. The old uA723 and variants would probably do the trick good enought for you with external transitor(s). I recommend to at least include

[time-nuts] Parallel voltage regulators

2007-10-24 Thread Kit Scally
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY Tom C, As Bruce notes below, the LM338K is a 5 amp job with a 35v max DC input rating. Just allow adequate heatsinking otherwise the 338 will foldback due to over temperature. There's plenty of on-line help to select the

Re: [time-nuts] Scopes and 1 PPS signals?

2007-10-24 Thread Dave Brown
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY But he knows the period already to parts in 10e-9 or better. His email sez it's a PPS signal ex an Rb source. Not much point in trying to measure that with a scope timebase! So I still think he wanted to measure the ~10uS

Re: [time-nuts] Parallel voltage regulators

2007-10-24 Thread christopher hoover
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY Tom Clifton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A question for those that might know (or have an opinion)... I have in hand an LPRO rubidium reference that requires 1.7 amps at 24 volts while the oven warms, dropping to 500ma while

Re: [time-nuts] Scopes and 1 PPS signals?

2007-10-24 Thread Brooke Clarke
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY Hi Dave: The problem is I don't have any documentation on the O-1814. The label does not say Frequency Standard or anything else about what it does. There is a very nice Rb source (M-100) inside and front panel connectors

Re: [time-nuts] Scopes and 1 PPS signals?

2007-10-24 Thread Tom Van Baak
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY I tried the SR620. It's bouncing around a 32 Hz period. Brooke, You have a house standard, right? (GPSDO or cesium). Use your SR620 to take a set of N (10 or 100) TI measurements between your local reference and the O-1814

Re: [time-nuts] Parallel voltage regulators

2007-10-24 Thread Tom Clifton
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY Thanks for all the good feedback! Looks like the LM388 is the way I'm to go. Got to toddle off to the local surplus shop in the morning to see what they have in the goodie bin. If they don't have it eBay is full of them. Tom

Re: [time-nuts] Parallel voltage regulators

2007-10-24 Thread Bruce Griffiths
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY christopher hoover wrote: Tom, Most of the oven circuits will tolerate a significant sag in potential during warm-up as long as the supply doesn't cut out. I've often run OCXO's and Rb's off a wimpy bench supply when my

Re: [time-nuts] Parallel voltage regulators

2007-10-24 Thread Brooke Clarke
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY Hi Tom: When I had that problem a work around was to parallel a battery with the power supply (using a diode). The battery supplies the extra current while the oven warms up. If the power supply voltage is a little higher

Re: [time-nuts] Parallel voltage regulators

2007-10-24 Thread Don Collie
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY Hi Tom, If you really want to regulate the oven`s supply voltage, my National Voltage Regulator handbook shows that the LM317T will supply over 2 Amps, with an input/output differential of between 5, and 12.5 Volts. A

Re: [time-nuts] Parallel voltage regulators

2007-10-24 Thread Bruce Griffiths
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY Don Collie wrote: Hi Tom, If you really want to regulate the oven`s supply voltage, my National Voltage Regulator handbook shows that the LM317T will supply over 2 Amps, with an input/output differential of between 5,

Re: [time-nuts] QCM

2007-10-24 Thread Bernd T-Online
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY Hi Ulrich, Ulrich Bangert wrote: Has anyone of you personal experience with QCMs (Quarz Crystal Microbalances) and give me a recommendation on a) what surface coating is suggested if the aim is to measure small amounts of

Re: [time-nuts] Parallel voltage regulators

2007-10-24 Thread Don Collie
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY Bollocs, Bruce! If National say it will do it, you can bet that it will. An LM338K will do the job too, but in my opinion it`s overkill, and in the event of a short circuit on the output of the regulator the current for the