Re: [time-nuts] OT: Basics of voltage calibration?

2009-03-15 Thread Brian Kirby
search LTZ1000, LM399, and LH0070 at www.linear.com , also get app notes AN42, AN82, and AN86 - and by the way, most big parts houses have quit carrying these references - but they can be ordered direct from Linear Technology. The LTZ1000 is used in HP3458A multimeters and a lot of

Re: [time-nuts] OT: Basics of voltage calibration?

2009-03-15 Thread Bruce Griffiths
Brian Kirby wrote: search LTZ1000, LM399, and LH0070 at www.linear.com , also get app notes AN42, AN82, and AN86 - and by the way, most big parts houses have quit carrying these references - but they can be ordered direct from Linear Technology. The LTZ1000 is used in HP3458A

Re: [time-nuts] OT: Basics of voltage calibration?

2009-03-15 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Hi Bruce (and others!) -- Thanks to all for the pointers. No, Bruce, I'm not going quite that far. I've just acquired a couple of pieces of voltage gear and don't really know the first thing about the calibration process. I'm really looking to learn the basics (as they were 20 years ago,

Re: [time-nuts] OT: Basics of voltage calibration?

2009-03-15 Thread Jürg Kögel
A good reference is the old Fluke publication Calibration - Philosophy in Practice by Steve Spang. (1975) Be very carefull with standard cells! Never load a cell. Use the cells only with high ohm null detectors. A loaded cell need a long time for regeneration (or come back never to the old

Re: [time-nuts] Question about specifications for Quartzlock GPS antenna down-converter

2009-03-15 Thread Magnus Danielson
b...@lysator.liu.se skrev: Hi Brooke and Russel, Meinberg does the same thing, but they send a 10MHz - nice choice!! - up the coax to receive an IF of 35.4MHz. http://www.meinberg.de/english/products/gpsant.htm http://www.meinberg.de/download/docs/manuals/english/gpsant.pdf As I

Re: [time-nuts] OT: Basics of voltage calibration?

2009-03-15 Thread Bill Hawkins
Yes, never load a standard cell. It's standard practice to put a jumper across the terminals of a galvanometer for shipping, so the needle (or mirror) doesn't slam around. Some years ago, I got a standard cell from eBay. The terminals had been shorted for shipping. Bill Hawkins -Original

Re: [time-nuts] OT: Basics of voltage calibration?

2009-03-15 Thread Max Robinson
Hi Bill. I could use that DVM if no one else has spoken for it. Let me know and I'll give you my address off list. My email address is after my signature. Regards. One of the lurkers, Max. K 4 O D S. Email: m...@maxsmusicplace.com Transistor site http://www.funwithtransistors.net Vacuum

[time-nuts] Shrinking Atomic Clocks

2009-03-15 Thread Thomas A. Frank
Time to shrink the atomic clock 14 March 2009 by Anil Ananthaswamy Magazine issue 2699. Subscribe and get 4 free issues. ATOMIC clocks, currently the size of fridges, could shrink to the microscale thanks to a new way of measuring the second. The technique could also see aluminium displace

Re: [time-nuts] Shrinking Atomic Clocks

2009-03-15 Thread Mike S
At 05:46 PM 3/15/2009, Thomas A. Frank wrote... 14 March 2009 by Anil Ananthaswamy ATOMIC clocks, currently the size of fridges, A 40 year old HP 5060A is smaller than a small refrigerator. I challenge Anil to tell us what fridge he's thinking of which is the size of an Efratom FRS. (Although

[time-nuts] FEI 5680a status update

2009-03-15 Thread Dan Sawyer
After several weeks of slow evening and hour here and hour there the FEI 5680a is performing on the bench. I was able to get the serial interface to operate for a brief period. The 'S' and 'F' commands worked long enough to change the divisor to produce close to a 10 MHx output, it was 7 Hz

Re: [time-nuts] Shrinking Atomic Clocks

2009-03-15 Thread Lux, James P
On 3/15/09 2:46 PM, Thomas A. Frank ka2...@cox.net wrote: Time to shrink the atomic clock 14 March 2009 by Anil Ananthaswamy Magazine issue 2699. Subscribe and get 4 free issues. ATOMIC clocks, currently the size of fridges, could shrink to the microscale thanks to a new way of

Re: [time-nuts] Shrinking Atomic Clocks

2009-03-15 Thread Eric Garner
this appears to be from the website/magazine New Scientist: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126994.900-time-to-shrink-the-atomic-clock.html after reading several of his(Anil's) other articles: http://www.newscientist.com/search?rbauthors=Anil+Ananthaswamy none of them seem to be

Re: [time-nuts] Shrinking Atomic Clocks

2009-03-15 Thread Mike S
At 07:54 PM 3/15/2009, Eric Garner wrote... this appears to be from the website/magazine New Scientist: Aha. Omni NG (without the credibility of Bob Guccione :-) ). ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to

Re: [time-nuts] OT: Basics of voltage calibration?

2009-03-15 Thread GandalfG8
In a message dated 15/03/2009 15:27:52 GMT Standard Time, j...@febo.com writes: However, I have an old 893A here that I just powered up for the first time in years. It seems to work (at least, the meter zeros properly) so that gives me something to play with. --- Hi

[time-nuts] FEI 5680a status update

2009-03-15 Thread Mark Sims
I spent quite a bit of time poking and prodding FE5680's.A while back, I posted a piece about what I found. It covers some important details about programming these units. The part about setting the frequency is at the end of the piece. Dieder has it available on his site:

Re: [time-nuts] Shrinking Atomic Clocks (Defence of New Scientist)

2009-03-15 Thread Jim Palfreyman
Well I for one am going to wade in and support this magazine. I think it does an excellent job in presenting week after week the discoveries in science. In fact it is sometimes hard to keep up with them. They reference their sources so you can go in-depth if need be and generally do an excellent

Re: [time-nuts] FEI 5680a status update

2009-03-15 Thread Dan Sawyer
Mark, Thank you for your work and your reply, I was able to disconnect the output of the DDS board from the 1 second divider, the DDS board produces a clean sine wave. I thank you for your article, I have a couple of follow up questions: 1. Which pot is the C-field? 2. Did you ever

[time-nuts] FEI 5680a status update

2009-03-15 Thread Mark Sims
Hello Dan, I think the C-field pot is the one accessible through the hole in the outer cover. If you don't have the cover, it is on one side of the physics package can near the top, center. I never messed with the reset pin. The RS-232 interface works just fine. Most of my units are the