[time-nuts] Re: Vectron 380 teardown

2022-01-14 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi The design traces back to the Efratom “EMXO” from the 1980’s. Vectron bought the rights to that design and produced examples of it for about a decade or so. Bob > On Jan 14, 2022, at 3:20 PM, Attila Kinali wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Jan 2022 17:44:22 + > Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >>

[time-nuts] Re: Vectron 380 teardown

2022-01-14 Thread Attila Kinali
On Fri, 14 Jan 2022 21:20:03 +0100 Attila Kinali wrote: > Then I looked at the Datasheet [1] (ok appnote) and guess what, > that's no mere oscillator. That's a bona-fide OCXO. Vacuum packaged, > nonetheless! Sure, it doesn't have the best stability compared to > other OCXO, but compared to

[time-nuts] Re: Vectron 380 teardown

2022-01-14 Thread Attila Kinali
On Fri, 14 Jan 2022 17:44:22 + Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > https://twitter.com/EvilMnkyzDsignz/status/1482039903995273216 Now that's an interesting design. My first thought was, "hell, using /two/ ceramic carriers for PCBs and using gold wires to connect them to eachother, that must

[time-nuts] Re: Vectron 380 teardown

2022-01-14 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi Just over 12 years old when he chopped it open. Bob > On Jan 14, 2022, at 12:44 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > With high praise for aesthetics even: > > https://twitter.com/EvilMnkyzDsignz/status/1482039903995273216 > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 >

[time-nuts] Vectron 380 teardown

2022-01-14 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
With high praise for aesthetics even: https://twitter.com/EvilMnkyzDsignz/status/1482039903995273216 -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can