Re: [time-nuts] homebrew counter new board test result

2015-02-27 Thread Tom Van Baak
2) Does any one have the test data of 12 digit/s counter when DUT=REF? I want to know the gap between mine and a commercial counter. Thanks Li Ang I did a lot of testing of 53132A counters a while back to research how well the interpolators worked and to measure the interference when

Re: [time-nuts] patek phillipe digital clock, sold as curio/antique

2015-02-27 Thread Jim Lux
On 2/27/15 3:23 AM, Flemming Larsen wrote: Check the price here: Patek Philippe Digital Display Clock | | | | | | | | | | | Patek Philippe Digital Display ClockVintage digital display clock by Patek Philippe of Geneva. Made for Abou Watfa of Damascus, circa 1970. Rare Patek

Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 127, Issue 33

2015-02-27 Thread Al Wolfe
I have an XL-DC and it has an internal GPS receiver in it. It supplies and monitors 5 volts to a BNC antenna jack for an external amplified GPS antenna. I don't know what the internal GPS engine is but doubt if it is anything special. The manual describes the down converter system as

[time-nuts] Using NIST ACTS with Datum/Symmetricom TS2100

2015-02-27 Thread Sean Gallagher
Hi all, I was wondering if anyone has ever had any success with the TS2100 and getting the ACTS system to work correctly and adjust the clock. As most of you know there is a bug in the 4.1 firmware version that was putting everything off a second with GPS. So my company purchased another one

Re: [time-nuts] No GPS satellites

2015-02-27 Thread Bob Camp
Hi All of these older rack mount “GPSDO” products had a fairly long lifespan compared to the advances in GPS receivers. When some / most of them first came out, the only practical /proven way to do timing off GPS was with a downconverter. Without things like serial numbers / date codes it’s

Re: [time-nuts] XL-DC was Re: time-nuts Digest, Vol 127, Issue 33

2015-02-27 Thread Russell Rezaian
I can confirm there are at least two common varieties of the XL-DC GPS RX board. One uses a normal GPS antenna (no down-converter, provides DC on the antenna line for an amp in the antenna, the typical antenna provided seems to be an AeroAntenna AT575 variety, but I suspect other antennas

[time-nuts] FS -- Thunderbolt temp sensor chips DS1620S Rev C

2015-02-27 Thread Peter Loron
Hello, all. I have a reel of the good Rev C DS1620S chips as used in the T-bolt. $1 each + shipping. Pic of the chip is at the link below. Please contact me off list if interested. Not sure if anybody needs them anymore, and wanted to check with the list before I get rid of them. Thanks.

Re: [time-nuts] XL-DC was Re: time-nuts Digest, Vol 127, Issue 33

2015-02-27 Thread Bob Camp
Hi One important caution on antennas: The 575 is quite happy with anything from 5 to 18V as a feed voltage and only pulls 35 ma. There are antennas out there that don’t like voltages over 6V. There also are antennas on the market that pull well over 50 ma. If the “original” box sourced 12V

Re: [time-nuts] Recording mains frequency/phase [WAS: No GPSsatellites]

2015-02-27 Thread Tom Van Baak
If we all did this, then I realize that we could identify the different power grids. However, I wonder if there is any interesting variation *within* a grid. As the electricity flows vary throughout the day, it seems possible that the phase difference between two people on the same grid

Re: [time-nuts] Trimble Thunderbolt NMEA ?

2015-02-27 Thread Matthias Brändli
Hi Tim, probably not the answer you are looking for, because it's a piece of software and not a device, and it doesn't output NMEA, but maybe it can still be of some help https://github.com/mpbraendli/trimble-thunderbold Matthias HB9EGM On 26. 02. 15 05:11, Tim wrote: Hi all, Is there a

Re: [time-nuts] XL-DC was Re: time-nuts Digest, Vol 127, Issue 33

2015-02-27 Thread Doug Ronald
In my XL-DC's case, there must have been a downconverter built into the antenna (which I don't have), but there was an upconverter in the chassis which took the IF signal from the cable, and heterodyned it back up to L-Band. I haven't fiddled-around with the upconverter, but I suspect the IF

Re: [time-nuts] Recording mains frequency/phase [WAS: No GPS satellites]

2015-02-27 Thread Bob Camp
HI On Feb 27, 2015, at 10:46 AM, Philip Gladstone pjsg-timen...@nospam.gladstonefamily.net wrote: On 2/26/15 20:39, Charles Steinmetz wrote: ben wrote: I'm going to have to build one of these. Assume you have some sort of circuit that converts low-voltage AC from a transformer secondary

Re: [time-nuts] Measuring frequency rather than tuning crystal

2015-02-27 Thread Paul Alfille
I don't think your TTi TF930 has a GPS input to calibrate against, based on a quick perusal of the data sheet. I would guess that the calibration constants are thus fixed from the factory (including temperature coefficients). On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 3:36 PM, James via time-nuts

Re: [time-nuts] Recording mains frequency/phase [WAS: No GPS satellites]

2015-02-27 Thread Philip Gladstone
On 2/26/15 20:39, Charles Steinmetz wrote: ben wrote: I'm going to have to build one of these. Assume you have some sort of circuit that converts low-voltage AC from a transformer secondary to a pulse train, start a timer, and count x amount of pulses? Here is a zero-cross detector designed

Re: [time-nuts] Measuring frequency rather than tuning crystal

2015-02-27 Thread James via time-nuts
I presume that this is what my TTi TF930 does. Calibration is closed box so I guess the TCXO is free running and the micro inside just uses calibration constants. James -Original Message- From: Paul Alfille paul.alfi...@gmail.com To: Discussion of precise time and frequency

Re: [time-nuts] Measuring frequency rather than tuning crystal

2015-02-27 Thread Dave Martindale
The TF930/960 does have a calibration procedure that is performed from the front panel. Basically, you feed it a stable input from any known source (so both 1 Hz and 10 MHz from a GPSDO should work) and then adjust until the displayed frequency agrees with the known input frequency. The

Re: [time-nuts] XL-DC was Re: time-nuts Digest, Vol 127, Issue 33

2015-02-27 Thread Björn
Hi, AT575-142TTW-TNCF-000-RG-41-NM Not all 575 antennas eat the same power. Its the RG in the part number above that specifies 4.2V to 15V DC power for the internal LNA. This is the most common option - but there are others. --        Björn div Originalmeddelande

[time-nuts] patek phillipe digital clock, sold as curio/antique

2015-02-27 Thread Jim Lux
In yesterday's Wall Street Journal (or maybe USA Today, I can't remember..) Nice Nixie displays... I wonder if it normally displays the same time on all, or if it is a multi-time zone/elapsed time kind of thing. It looks a lot like clock display stacks used for displaying Mission Elapsed

Re: [time-nuts] patek phillipe digital clock, sold as curio/antique

2015-02-27 Thread Flemming Larsen
Check the price here: Patek Philippe Digital Display Clock |   | |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | Patek Philippe Digital Display ClockVintage digital display clock by Patek Philippe of Geneva. Made for Abou Watfa of Damascus, circa 1970. Rare Patek Philippe digital clocks for sale at M.S. Rau

Re: [time-nuts] homebrew counter new board test result

2015-02-27 Thread Li Ang
Hi Thanks about the explanation on hysteresis and comparator. The PM6685(http://assets.fluke.com/manuals/PM6685__smeng.pdf ) is using 74ALS176 as the frontend for REF channel. So I tried that on the previous board. The performance is better with 74ALS176+74LVC2G14 than MC100LVELT22 at

Re: [time-nuts] patek phillipe digital clock, sold as curio/antique

2015-02-27 Thread Tom Van Baak
In yesterday's Wall Street Journal (or maybe USA Today, I can't remember..) Nice Nixie displays... I wonder if it normally displays the same time on all, or if it is a multi-time zone/elapsed time kind of thing. It looks a lot like clock display stacks used for displaying Mission Elapsed