Re: [time-nuts] Some FTS1000 questions

2020-09-10 Thread xaos
As usual, Dr. Griffiths has provided all we need. Back in 2007 I had a similar issue and he worked out this very nice circuit using easy to find 2N3904 BJTs. I simulated the circuit using PSPICE. Here are the details. https://www.darksmile.net/ee/frequency_doubler_BJT.html George On

Re: [time-nuts] Some FTS1000 questions

2020-09-10 Thread Bruce Griffiths
You could use either the NIST CG JFET doubler or its bipolar CB equivalent. Bruce > On 11 September 2020 at 08:43 Tobias Pluess wrote: > > > Dear colleagues > > I recently got a FTS1000 oscillator. (Not FTS1000A or B, but just FTS1000, > I assume it is the first version). It is a very nice

Re: [time-nuts] Thunderbolt E failing

2020-09-10 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi A couple things to check: 1) Is your power supply doing odd things? It’s the first thing I’d suspect in this case. 2) Does the OCXO “behave” if you turn off the GPS ( = disconnect the antenna ) and watch it with a counter? 3) While the antenna is disconnected from the TBolt, hook it to

[time-nuts] Some FTS1000 questions

2020-09-10 Thread Tobias Pluess
Dear colleagues I recently got a FTS1000 oscillator. (Not FTS1000A or B, but just FTS1000, I assume it is the first version). It is a very nice unit, but I wanted to know a bit more about its construction and opened it. After I had replaced the foam which was already quite dissolved, I began

[time-nuts] Thunderbolt E failing

2020-09-10 Thread Kevin Schuchmann
Newbie here looking for comments from people with more experience with thunderbolt E's to comment on what I am seeing. Unit is jumping and ramping the DAC one direction then goes stable for a bit only to start jumping and ramping the other way. Oscillator heading south or more likely the

Re: [time-nuts] LPRO 101 heat sink question

2020-09-10 Thread Matthias Welwarsky
On Donnerstag, 10. September 2020 16:14:45 CEST Jim Harman wrote: > I recently purchased an LPRO rubidium from the auction site. The mounting > surface is covered with a thin soft, dry light blue material with a sheet > of brownish plastic film underneath. I assume this is the remains of an >

[time-nuts] LPRO 101 heat sink question

2020-09-10 Thread Claude Houde
Hello Jim. Personally I would delicately remove the remains of the thermal plastic film from surface and clean it with a cloth lightly moistened with 70 or 90% alcohol. Then a thin film of thermal grease or a new thermal film to reduce thermal gradient and all will be OK. Regards, Claude

Re: [time-nuts] LPRO 101 heat sink question

2020-09-10 Thread Dana Whitlow
That's what I did with my LPRO, and it seems to be happy- I've been using it for a couple of years now with no apparent difficulty. Dana On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 9:29 AM Jim Harman wrote: > I recently purchased an LPRO rubidium from the auction site. The mounting > surface is covered with a

Re: [time-nuts] LPRO 101 heat sink question

2020-09-10 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi Unless the pad is damaged, it makes a fine “gap filler” to attach the device to a heatsink. You don’t get thermal compound all over everything when using the pads …. Given the (large) surface area and the amount of heat involved, the relative performance of silver loaded (gray) thermal

[time-nuts] LPRO 101 heat sink question

2020-09-10 Thread Jim Harman
I recently purchased an LPRO rubidium from the auction site. The mounting surface is covered with a thin soft, dry light blue material with a sheet of brownish plastic film underneath. I assume this is the remains of an adhesive thermal pad. Should I peel this off and expose the bare metal

Re: [time-nuts] GPSDO "accuracy"

2020-09-10 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi Maybe a good idea to “back up” a bit here: The most commonly plotted data for the performance of a GPSDO is ADEV. Very simply put, to do ADEV you take a series of readings at a specific time spacing ( called tau ). The delta frequency from one reading to the next is then computed. You take