Re: [time-nuts] SRS SR620 counter problem

2010-10-25 Thread Robert Atkinson
I'd change the CMOS RAM next.   Robert G8RPI. --- On Mon, 25/10/10, Corby Dawson wrote: From: Corby Dawson Subject: [time-nuts] SRS SR620 counter problem To: time-nuts@febo.com Date: Monday, 25 October, 2010, 23:39 Hi everyone! My SR620 is giving me an error 3 on power up. The manual says i

Re: [time-nuts] SR 620 problem

2010-10-25 Thread J. Forster
OK, that eliminates that issue. -John == > John, > > The battery nominal voltage is 3.0VDC it's a BR-2/3A > > Corby > > $13/Month Car Insurance? > Insurance deal just passed now allows you to get car insurance for $13 > http://t

[time-nuts] SR 620 problem

2010-10-25 Thread Corby Dawson
John, The battery nominal voltage is 3.0VDC it's a BR-2/3A Corby $13/Month Car Insurance? Insurance deal just passed now allows you to get car insurance for $13 http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4cc63f087da675b930m04duc

Re: [time-nuts] SRS SR620 counter problem/Battery

2010-10-25 Thread paul swed
Oh I did not realize it had batteries in it. I need to check mine or whats left of it. Always seemed to take a while to come up. On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Brian Kirby wrote: > I had a problem with a Z3801A GPSDO. I added a backup battery to the > Motorola Oncore VP receiver, so it could s

Re: [time-nuts] SRS SR620 counter problem/Battery

2010-10-25 Thread Brian Kirby
I had a problem with a Z3801A GPSDO. I added a backup battery to the Motorola Oncore VP receiver, so it could store GPS satellite almanacs (makes the unit come up a lot faster from an unpowered state). I used common 1.5 volt AA alkaline batteries, two in series to the receiver. Worked great.

Re: [time-nuts] Distribution Amp suggestions

2010-10-25 Thread Richard W. Solomon
You might want to look at the Downeast Microwave Distribution Amp. 73, Dick, W1KSZ -Original Message- >From: Murray Greenman >Sent: Oct 25, 2010 6:01 PM >To: time-nuts@febo.com >Subject: [time-nuts] Distribution Amp suggestions > >Hi, >We have more expensive distribution amps around th

[time-nuts] Distribution Amp suggestions

2010-10-25 Thread Murray Greenman
Hi, We have more expensive distribution amps around the production facility here at RAKON than I'd care to count, and always seem to need more. I am looking for additional units as the requirements expand, something like the Symmetricom 4036B which we already use. Our need is for 10MHz distribution

Re: [time-nuts] SRS SR620 counter problem

2010-10-25 Thread paul swed
Suggest a 100K thats 33 ua and at least 10 to 60 X more then the memory draws. Memories in standby draw 1 ua or even far less these days. The fact that the battery is at 3.44 and 3.2 suggests it may be fine. I just repaired the front panel of a sig gen and the diode was shorted draining the battery

Re: [time-nuts] SRS SR620 counter problem

2010-10-25 Thread J. Forster
Certainly could be, but it seems a reasonable first thing to check before tearing into the unit. FWIW, -John ==bv > I expect that it is a Lithium cell, so the voltage is correct. Although, > testing it with a 1K load may not be fair as in real service I believe > they > only provide

Re: [time-nuts] SRS SR620 counter problem

2010-10-25 Thread Mike Feher
I expect that it is a Lithium cell, so the voltage is correct. Although, testing it with a 1K load may not be fair as in real service I believe they only provide microamps. Regards - Mike Mike B. Feher, EOZ Inc. 89 Arnold Blvd. Howell, NJ, 07731 732-886-5960 office 908-901-9193 cell -Original

Re: [time-nuts] SRS SR620 counter problem

2010-10-25 Thread J. Forster
What's the battery nominal voltage supposed to be? -John == > Hi everyone! > > My SR620 is giving me an error 3 on power up. The manual says it's most > likely a dead backup battery. > > I can clear it if I hold down the reset button while powering up. (This > loads the factory defaults

Re: [time-nuts] Determining Time-Nut infection severity

2010-10-25 Thread Ed, k1ggi
-Original Message- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of William H. Fite So.I see no way in which one could determine with precision when life ends. At least not with the precision that this group would consider even minimally acceptable.

[time-nuts] SRS SR620 counter problem

2010-10-25 Thread Corby Dawson
Hi everyone! My SR620 is giving me an error 3 on power up. The manual says it's most likely a dead backup battery. I can clear it if I hold down the reset button while powering up. (This loads the factory defaults into the RAM.) However if I cycle power the error 3 comes back! The battery read

Re: [time-nuts] Determining Time-Nut infection severity

2010-10-25 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Oct 25, 2010, at 12:49 PM, Bill Hawkins wrote: > Normally, the brain dies from lack of oxygen to maintain cellular > activity. Not only is this not instantaneous, it is the cause of > stories of seeing a light at the end of a tunnel that are told by > those who have been brought back from lega

Re: [time-nuts] Maintaining boatanchors

2010-10-25 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <29c74a478f474f33a04876e50c6cf...@inspiron>, "Jason Rabel" writes: >I wish Symmetricom would release source to the old TrueTime / Datum >products... But I'm sure most of that source code has been lost Once I become supreme ruler, to sell any product costing more than a months work on m

Re: [time-nuts] Maintaining boatanchors

2010-10-25 Thread J. Forster
Actually, you are very lucky Nortel is even still answering the phone. The stockholders were a lot less fortunate. -John > This is slightly off on a tangent, but has to do with licenses... > > I had some old Alteon equipment which I needed a firmware update for. > Nortel bought

Re: [time-nuts] Maintaining boatanchors

2010-10-25 Thread Jason Rabel
I wish Symmetricom would release source to the old TrueTime / Datum products... But I'm sure most of that source code has been lost / thrown away. For instance, the older network time servers are much cooler to me than the new models. The old stuff was custom designed and specifically written /

Re: [time-nuts] Maintaining boatanchors

2010-10-25 Thread Jason Rabel
This is slightly off on a tangent, but has to do with licenses... I had some old Alteon equipment which I needed a firmware update for. Nortel bought Alteon, but they continued the products and updates (for a while). Most the products were EOL (including the one I had), we're talking past upda

Re: [time-nuts] Maintaining boatanchors (was Capacitor Failures)

2010-10-25 Thread Joseph Gray
> +1 for the Willem Programmer's I had an older model (serial port > connection), but I used it TONS of times fixing corrupt BIOSes > on computers back in the days... I keep meaning to get me one of the newer > USB models... Like you said, they have various adapters > to support just about ever

Re: [time-nuts] Maintaining boatanchors (was Capacitor Failures)

2010-10-25 Thread J. Forster
I just Googled "bluefeather" EPROM and it took me right to the Time-Nuts post with the full address in milliseconds. FWIW, -John == > +1 for the Willem Programmer's I had an older model (serial port > connection), but I used it TONS of times fixing corrupt BIOSes > on computers

Re: [time-nuts] Maintaining boatanchors (was Capacitor Failures)

2010-10-25 Thread Jason Rabel
+1 for the Willem Programmer's I had an older model (serial port connection), but I used it TONS of times fixing corrupt BIOSes on computers back in the days... I keep meaning to get me one of the newer USB models... Like you said, they have various adapters to support just about every popula

Re: [time-nuts] Determining Time-Nut infection severity

2010-10-25 Thread William H. Fite
For him we will make an exception [?] On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 12:28 PM, wrote: > "I suspect that at time of death, brain activity doesn't instantly cease, > but decays." > > I suspect that was not the case for the guy who was sucked into the jet > engine :) > > Or it was a pretty fast dec

Re: [time-nuts] Determining Time-Nut infection severity

2010-10-25 Thread Oz-in-DFW
On 10/25/2010 11:49 AM, Bill Hawkins wrote: > It would take an extraordinary ego to believe that anyone would > care about your exact time of death. or be sufficiently obsessive-compulsive... Oh. Wait. -- mailto:o...@ozindfw.net Oz POB 93167 Southlake, TX 76092 (Near DFW Airport) __

Re: [time-nuts] Determining Time-Nut infection severity

2010-10-25 Thread J. Forster
It started as a joke! -John > Normally, the brain dies from lack of oxygen to maintain cellular > activity. Not only is this not instantaneous, it is the cause of > stories of seeing a light at the end of a tunnel that are told by > those who have been brought back from legal d

Re: [time-nuts] RAPCO 1882M-2 autochangeover distribution amplifier

2010-10-25 Thread GandalfG8
In a message dated 25/10/2010 14:09:08 GMT Daylight Time, luciano.paramithio...@hp.com writes: I have two distributors of frequency, one to be mounted in a rack where I have all my frequency reference and the other one in my laboratory to distribute the FX to the measuring instruments. ---

Re: [time-nuts] Determining Time-Nut infection severity

2010-10-25 Thread Bill Hawkins
Normally, the brain dies from lack of oxygen to maintain cellular activity. Not only is this not instantaneous, it is the cause of stories of seeing a light at the end of a tunnel that are told by those who have been brought back from legal death. Two observations: You can't have everything. Wher

Re: [time-nuts] Determining Time-Nut infection severity

2010-10-25 Thread shalimr9
"I suspect that at time of death, brain activity doesn't instantly cease, but decays." I suspect that was not the case for the guy who was sucked into the jet engine :) Or it was a pretty fast decay... Didier Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Mike Naru

Re: [time-nuts] SatStat Software Whereabouts

2010-10-25 Thread shalimr9
Joe, Could you upload it to my site? Thanks Didier KO4BB Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: "J. L. Trantham" Sender: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 07:37:45 To: 'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement' Reply-To: Discussion

Re: [time-nuts] Determining Time-Nut infection severity

2010-10-25 Thread William H. Fite
Mike is correct. Brain activity does not screech to a halt but peters out over a period of minutes once the heart stops beating. When we (I'm in the medical field and not, by any stretch of the imagination an engineer) speak of someone being "brain dead" or "flat line EEG," we don't really mean t

Re: [time-nuts] Determining Time-Nut infection severity.

2010-10-25 Thread Steve Rooke
As usual, it seems I was incorrect. At least in the US legal system, clinical death is considered to be the cessation of blood flow due to heart failure and similar due to breathing having stopped. This, apparently, means one can be brain dead but still considered to be alive. Thinking about it now

Re: [time-nuts] RAPCO 1882M-2 autochangeover distribution amplifier

2010-10-25 Thread Paramithiotti, Luciano Paolo S
Hi Nigel, I have two distributors of frequency, one to be mounted in a rack where I have all my frequency reference and the other one in my laboratory to distribute the FX to the measuring instruments. I will limit myself to the described modification for the laboratory one, while in the ra

[time-nuts] RS Cesium

2010-10-25 Thread EWKehren
Does any one know which Oscilloquartz OCXO is in the RS XCS 299.4011.02 Cesium standard which looks similar to HP 5062C but uses a FTS tube and the actual CS module is from Oscilloquartz? Bert Kehren ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To

Re: [time-nuts] SatStat Software Whereabouts

2010-10-25 Thread J. L. Trantham
The answer is YES. Several people have it 'stashed'. I now have two versions, one from HP and the other from Symmetricom. I only had the HP version that I got several years ago. Thanks to Richard, Kit, and Nigel. Kit, sorry for the email bounce. Not sure why AT&T did not originally like your

Re: [time-nuts] Determining Time-Nut infection severity.

2010-10-25 Thread Robert Atkinson
One example I saw the report of recently had a fairly well defined TOD. It was a Continental Arilines engineer looking for an oil leak on a 737 at El Paso. He was beside the starboard engine and told the pilot to set the power at 70%. He then stood up and was sucked into the engine. TOD was dete

Re: [time-nuts] Determining Time-Nut infection severity

2010-10-25 Thread GandalfG8
In a message dated 25/10/2010 13:02:49 GMT Daylight Time, paul_gr...@greenrover.demon.co.uk writes: As indeed care would need to be taken to ensure that the measuring instrument doesn't affect the DUT DUT.Death Under Test? :-) ___

Re: [time-nuts] Determining Time-Nut infection severity

2010-10-25 Thread Paul_group
course, careful planning and design needs to be taken in the choice of circuitry and construction so as to all the hat to be cleaned. There is, of course, the faint possibility of death during the swapping of but some careful planning of how to do the hat swap may alleviate this window. As ind

Re: [time-nuts] Determining Time-Nut infection severity

2010-10-25 Thread Mike Naruta AA8K
I suspect that at time of death, brain activity doesn't instantly cease, but decays. Unless we would be able to monitor all brain activity, we are stuck with a bald man paradox, perhaps calculating the half-life of brain activity. Maybe we could attempt to measure the weight of the departing sou

Re: [time-nuts] Determining Time-Nut infection severity

2010-10-25 Thread xaos
Only to die and in a split second the mysteries of the universe will open to you and you will realize that "time" was relative and subjective and can be varied by certain "jokers". And, most importantly, your grandfather's "grandfather clock" (you know, the one in the living room with the gargoyl

Re: [time-nuts] Determining Time-Nut infection severity

2010-10-25 Thread Bill Hawkins
OK, this is an interesting problem, but don't take anything I say seriously, unless, of course, the shoe fits. Consider the end stages of TNI. You have acquired everything that can be acquired. Nothing holds any secrets from you, and so there are no challenges left. Agreed, some of us will run out