[time-nuts] poor mans environmental control for time servers (with pictures)

2022-02-07 Thread folkert
celsius. As expected/visible in graphs, this stabilizes the clocks of the time-servers a bit. regards, Folkert. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com -- To unsubscribe send an email to time-nuts-le...@lists.febo.com To unsubscribe, go

[time-nuts] Re: Time Signal Transmitter (low power)

2022-01-28 Thread folkert
> There was a discussion along these lines about using a RasberryPi or Arduino > for this purpose a while ago on this forum --- try searhing for "WWVB > Chronverter". I tried this: https://github.com/hzeller/txtempus/ Works pretty good at a short distance (< 10cm).

[time-nuts] electronics question or how not to fry my raspberry pi

2022-01-28 Thread folkert
a 4.7k ohm and 8.2k ohm resistor giving slightly less than 3.2v - will that work? or will that attenuate the signal too much? The 50 ohm bnc cable between the amplifier and the rpi is 3m long. Anything else I should be aware of? Regards, Folkert van Heus

[time-nuts] Re: PPS latency? User vs kernel mode

2021-12-22 Thread folkert
> > I wrote something this evening that just busy-loops waiting for a raising > > edge and then writes down the current time to feed that to ntp. > > You are trading interrupt latency for user-kernel crossing delays and > scheduler quirks. Are you sure about the user-kernel crossings? Because

[time-nuts] Re: PPS latency? User vs kernel mode

2021-12-22 Thread folkert
> > In FreeBSD you get all that for free: > > > > > > https://papers.freebsd.org/2002/phk-timecounters.files/timecounter.pdf > > > > "It is painfully obvious that the interrupt latency is the dominant > noise factor in PPS timestamping in the second case." I wrote something this evening

[time-nuts] Re: Clock display on Linux systems?

2021-12-09 Thread folkert
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[time-nuts] Re: Clock display on Linux systems?

2021-12-07 Thread folkert
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[time-nuts] measuring multiple gps modules

2021-11-23 Thread folkert
Hi, I thought I understood just enough from electronics to be able to these kind of experiments but apparently not (3 damaged rpi's and gps modules). I thought that if signal levels are in range of the device that will read them and all grounds are connected, that you could safely for example

[time-nuts] Re: NTP servers

2021-11-23 Thread folkert
ue. So "how good" > > turns > > > into measuring network (a)symmetries. > > > > > > > > > -- > > > These are my opinions. I hate spam. > > > > > > > > > _______ &g

[time-nuts] function generator

2021-11-21 Thread folkert
Hi, A few days ago I bought a Rigol DG1022Z function generator. Works really well from what I can see. Especially compared to my previous solution (a sound-card in my laptop with a few resistors and a capacitor to adjust the signal level) :-) Now I noticed that on the back there are a few bnc

[time-nuts] pendulum

2021-11-03 Thread folkert
Maybe a tiny bit on-topic but a nice watch nevertheless: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT5CafrZyDw Syncing a pendulum to an audio synthesizer. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com -- To unsubscribe send an email to

[time-nuts] Re: metronome

2021-07-05 Thread folkert
Hi, I'll reply to the reactions I received combined in one mail. I also received an e-mail off-list, not adding that here (maybe there was a specific reason for sending it off-list). > Bob kb8tq: MIDI gear spans many decades at this point. Some of it will have interesting digital sub systems.

[time-nuts] metronome

2021-07-03 Thread folkert
to output timestamps with milliseconds resolution). The WiFi output is sampled using a raspberry pi 4 with tcpdump (with name resolving disasbled). Regards, Folkert van Heusden ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com -- To unsubscribe se

[time-nuts] Re: Small NTP appliance

2021-04-25 Thread folkert
> > I have one general question. I don't believe that an internal crystal in the > > microcontroller will have the accuracy or precision required to have better > > than a few milliseconds of accuracy (whereas NTP likes to live in the > > microsecond realm), though I very well could be wrong on

Re: [time-nuts] Mains frequency data for Europe

2020-03-25 Thread folkert
past 30 days: https://revspace.nl/grafiekjes/d/1/home?orgId=1=1h=24=now-30d=now past 2 years: https://revspace.nl/grafiekjes/d/1/home?orgId=1=1m=24=now-2y=now Folkert van Heusden --

Re: [time-nuts] weird Raspberry PPS+GPS NTP server behaviour

2020-03-03 Thread folkert
> Thanks, Adam and Hal. I will have a play. I need to decide which of my > flock to use, as some already sit in a fairly stable environment, and others > are doing real work which may be affected by running the CPU at 100%. > > OK, there's a non-critical one rather nearer to a CH radiator than

[time-nuts] Syncing time via a VGA connector

2019-11-07 Thread folkert
Hi, For fun I hooked up a TCXO to an Arduino. That Arduino then interfaces the TCXO to the I2C in the VGA connector and then with some magic code, it syncs the PPS signal to NTP. https://vanheusden.com/misc/blog/2019-11-07.php Curious what you think. Regards, Folkert van Heusden

Re: [time-nuts] verifying synchronization with PPS

2019-07-10 Thread folkert
> > Folkert van Heusden has a driver for NTP which includes PPS output: > > https://vanheusden.com/time/rpi_gpio_ntp/ > > Perhaps this might help? > > Indeed I did! :-) > > But please note that the jitter is high, iirc around 18ms. > Personally I would use htt

Re: [time-nuts] verifying synchronization with PPS

2019-07-10 Thread folkert
> Folkert van Heusden has a driver for NTP which includes PPS output: > https://vanheusden.com/time/rpi_gpio_ntp/ > Perhaps this might help? Indeed I did! :-) But please note that the jitter is high, iirc around 18ms. Personally I would use https://github.com/mlichvar/pps-gpio

[time-nuts] accurate time on your pi, the extreme way design

2019-06-26 Thread folkert
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/26/accurate-time-on-your-pi-the-extreme-way/ (not mine!) ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the

Re: [time-nuts] evaluating an oscillator with the allan deviation

2019-02-08 Thread folkert
> > Thanks for the raw data. Attached is Folkert-02.png which is the ADEV from > > column 1 (your function generator vs. Arduino) and column 2 (your Adafruit > > 1PPS vs. Arduino). In this case it's quite clear that the Arduino crystal > > is much better than your func

[time-nuts] evaluating an oscillator with the allan deviation

2019-02-08 Thread folkert
from an expert but this graph looks a bit too good to be true. Can anyone spot the mistake I make in the process? regards Folkert van Heusden -- -- Phone: +31-6-41278122, PGP-key: 1F28D8AE, www.vanheusden.com