Re: [time-nuts] PRS-45A is alive!

2014-12-09 Thread Dave Martindale
: Pete Lancashire p...@petelancashire.com To: Bob Stewart b...@evoria.net; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Monday, December 8, 2014 11:46 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] PRS-45A is alive! Love to have known how long it was off, and how much of that 16

Re: [time-nuts] PRS-45A is alive!

2014-12-09 Thread paul swed
and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Monday, December 8, 2014 11:46 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] PRS-45A is alive! Love to have known how long it was off, and how much of that 16 minutes was getting the tube degassed. -pete On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Bob Stewart b

Re: [time-nuts] PRS-45A is alive!

2014-12-09 Thread Bert Kehren via time-nuts
16 Minutes is normal. First FTS tubes do not leak as much as the old HP tubes. Second the seller most likely did run a test which means the tube was pumped down. Unless there is software that tells beam current the only way I know to get some idea of health of tube is as I mentioned before

Re: [time-nuts] PRS-45A is alive!

2014-12-09 Thread Bob Stewart
, I'm out of serial ports, so I've got to wait till this evening until I can rewire my GPSDO to accept a USB adapter to free up my RS-232. Bob From: Bert Kehren via time-nuts time-nuts@febo.com To: time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Tuesday, December 9, 2014 8:20 AM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] PRS

Re: [time-nuts] PRS-45A is alive!

2014-12-09 Thread Bob Stewart
, December 9, 2014 7:29 AM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] PRS-45A is alive! One zero-effort way to do this: a portable GFCI. I have several GFCIs (Ground Fault Circuit Interrupters) designed for portable use.  They may be in the form of an extension cord with the GFI electronics in the male plug

Re: [time-nuts] PRS-45A is alive!

2014-12-09 Thread Bob Stewart
: Re: [time-nuts] PRS-45A is alive! Bob That is one nice looking unit. Most Cs's that we get have had there days. This one looks really good physically. The fact that it warmed and locked in 16 minutes means it did not need to pump down very much. Heck a small RB takes 15 minutes to hit lock

[time-nuts] PRS-45A is alive!

2014-12-08 Thread Bob Stewart
Well, it's alive, and I even have 10MHz coming from it.  It took about 16 minutes to go to lock.  Is that good, or doesn't matter?  Now I've got to put together a serial cable and see if I can talk to it and find out how it thinks it's doing.  But, this is good!

Re: [time-nuts] PRS-45A is alive!

2014-12-08 Thread Pete Lancashire
Love to have known how long it was off, and how much of that 16 minutes was getting the tube degassed. -pete On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Bob Stewart b...@evoria.net wrote: Well, it's alive, and I even have 10MHz coming from it. It took about 16 minutes to go to lock. Is that good, or

Re: [time-nuts] PRS-45A is alive!

2014-12-08 Thread Bob Stewart
of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Monday, December 8, 2014 11:46 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] PRS-45A is alive! Love to have known how long it was off, and how much of that 16 minutes was getting the tube degassed. -pete On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Bob

Re: [time-nuts] PRS-45A is alive!

2014-12-08 Thread wb6bnq
PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] PRS-45A is alive! Love to have known how long it was off, and how much of that 16 minutes was getting the tube degassed. -pete On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Bob Stewart b...@evoria.net wrote: Well, it's alive, and I even have 10MHz coming from it. It took