[time-nuts] HP5061B Cesium Oven Properties

2017-03-29 Thread Donald E. Pauly
https://www.febo.com/pipermail/time-nuts/2017-March/104374.html The cesium oven acts as an evaporator for liquid cesium which melts at 28.5° C. One of our beam tubes has 83°C for its operating temperature. It also calls for a A11R11 and A11R12 of 3.83 K and 42.2K which is 3.51K. Oven power is

Re: [time-nuts] Fwd: HP5061B Ion Current

2017-03-29 Thread paul swed
Donald, Very good and it is as I thought. No real magic a tough job. Whats good about the suspended approach is it preserves the can nicely. I have done a pry (small screw driver or xactor blade) and drip approach and it actually slightly bends the can lip out. I have never opened one of the HV

Re: [time-nuts] Timelab, GPIB-USB-B in a VM

2017-03-29 Thread paul swed
Pretty sure the GPIB-enets been unsupported for about 10 years. I have one and liked it. But when NI didn't move it forward with the operating systems it became a pain in the butt needing a windows 98 machine. This talk of using VMs is interesting indeed. I have used both KVM and VMware. Regards