Re: [time-nuts] FE-5680A thermal management

2009-06-15 Thread Rex
e time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] FE-5680A thermal management Hal Murray wrote: le...@wa5znu.org said: For reference, Ridge Equipment has a photo of one of this year's crop of FE-5680A mounted to a large aluminum plate. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl

Re: [time-nuts] FE-5680A thermal management

2009-06-15 Thread Ed Palmer
Behalf Of Rex Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 2:33 AM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] FE-5680A thermal management Hal Murray wrote: le...@wa5znu.org said: For reference, Ridge Equipment has a photo of one of this year's crop of FE-568

Re: [time-nuts] FE-5680A thermal management

2009-06-15 Thread J. L. Trantham
They look like Torx Screws. Not so? Thanks, Joe -Original Message- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Rex Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 2:33 AM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] FE-5680A

Re: [time-nuts] FE-5680A thermal management

2009-06-15 Thread Rex
Hal Murray wrote: le...@wa5znu.org said: For reference, Ridge Equipment has a photo of one of this year's crop of FE-5680A mounted to a large aluminum plate. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330233071735 http://i43.tinypic.com/126cpcp.jpg Is that an aluminum plate

Re: [time-nuts] FE-5680A thermal management

2009-06-14 Thread Hal Murray
le...@wa5znu.org said: > For reference, Ridge Equipment has a photo of one of this year's crop > of FE-5680A mounted to a large aluminum plate. > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330233071735 > http://i43.tinypic.com/126cpcp.jpg Is that an aluminum plate or the top side of a P

Re: [time-nuts] FE-5680A thermal management

2009-06-14 Thread Leigh L. Klotz, Jr WA5ZNU
For reference, Ridge Equipment has a photo of one of this year's crop of FE-5680A mounted to a large aluminum plate. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330233071735 http://i43.tinypic.com/126cpcp.jpg Leigh/WA5ZNU Almost all rubidium standards DO specify the use of some form of a

Re: [time-nuts] FE-5680A thermal management

2009-06-09 Thread Geoff Powell
In article <2ed501c9e87a$a7a4a850$7900a...@athlon1200>, Dave Brown writes > >Murray et al, >The package of both units is clearly meant to be mounted on >something-the real question is how much heat sinking would that >something have provided? Changing the external heatsinking to achieve >the n

[time-nuts] FE-5680A thermal management

2009-06-08 Thread Mark Sims
Almost all rubidium standards DO specify the use of some form of a heat sink. For the FRK and M100 units this can be a heat sink with around 1" fins or just bolted to a metal plate or chassis. The military freq standard that had M100's in them had the unit mounted to a 5x5x.2" aluminum plate

Re: [time-nuts] FE-5680A thermal management

2009-06-08 Thread Dave Brown
- Original Message - From: "Murray Greenman" To: Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 6:42 AM Subject: [time-nuts] FE-5680A thermal management Leigh, I agree with Chuck. I have both an FE-5650A and an FE-5680A. With the former I was concerned about the heat, and so ran i

Re: [time-nuts] FE-5680A thermal management

2009-06-08 Thread bg
> In message , > "Murray Greenman" writes: > >>With the FE-5680A I had the opportunity to study things in more detail. > > The PRS10 manual has some good info. > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer |

Re: [time-nuts] FE-5680A thermal management

2009-06-08 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message , "Murra y Greenman" writes: >With the FE-5680A I had the opportunity to study things in more detail. The PRS10 manual has some good info. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-t

[time-nuts] FE-5680A thermal management

2009-06-08 Thread Murray Greenman
Leigh, I agree with Chuck. I have both an FE-5650A and an FE-5680A. With the former I was concerned about the heat, and so ran it only for short periods, until I understood what was going on. I had the impression from the data sheet that there were different heatsink options for different temperat