Re: [time-nuts] Using speaker / earphone for PPS testing (not a question)

2020-04-21 Thread Chris Burford
I reached out to SRS several months ago to inquire if the pulse width could be configured from the default of 10 micro second. Their responses was no. Chris -Original Message- From: time-nuts On Behalf Of Taka Kamiya via time-nuts Sent: Monday, April 20, 2020 22:35 To: Discussion of

Re: [time-nuts] Using speaker / earphone for PPS testing (not a question)

2020-04-21 Thread Larry Sampas
TAPR offers a FatPPS kit to stretch the pulse out, and it looks like they're back in stock. I have one but haven't assembled it yet. https://tapr.org/product/fatpps-pulse-stretcher/ Larry On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 8:17 AM Dana Whitlow wrote: > I've seen PPS ticks as short as 100 nsec from some

Re: [time-nuts] Using speaker / earphone for PPS testing (not a question)

2020-04-21 Thread Björn
Hi, 20us length is a mil standard. Described in ICD-GPS-060. /Björn Sent from my iPhone > On 21 Apr 2020, at 13:37, Bob kb8tq wrote: > > Hi > > One of the simplest justifications I can think of for a dirt cheap “Chinese” > digital ’scope is to capture short burst stuff like narrow pps

Re: [time-nuts] Using speaker / earphone for PPS testing (not a question)

2020-04-21 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi One of the simplest justifications I can think of for a dirt cheap “Chinese” digital ’scope is to capture short burst stuff like narrow pps pulses. 10 us / non-adjustable is a *very* common spec for a 1 PPS. Bob > On Apr 21, 2020, at 4:56 AM, Chris Burford wrote: > > I reached out to

Re: [time-nuts] Using speaker / earphone for PPS testing (not a question)

2020-04-21 Thread Dana Whitlow
I've seen PPS ticks as short as 100 nsec from some equipment. Didn't think to try the headphone trick at the time, but am dubious about hearing pulses that short at ordinary pulse amplitudes. Dana On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 6:37 AM Bob kb8tq wrote: > Hi > > One of the simplest justifications I

Re: [time-nuts] What to do with your dead cesium

2020-04-21 Thread Dave Mallery
beautiful. we should create a compendium: '101 uses for a dead cesium' On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 9:50 PM Skip Withrow wrote: > Hello Time-Nuts, > Well, with the COVID-19 stay at home order I have been working on a > couple of projects (at home). > > This post shows what I have done with an old

Re: [time-nuts] What to do with your dead cesium

2020-04-21 Thread ed breya
I did a similar thing with an HP5065A carcass, by repackaging the guts of a Z3801A inside. Actually, I should say doing, rather than did - I started this over ten years ago, getting only to the point where the Z3801A was functional again. All the bells and whistles are in various states of

Re: [time-nuts] What to do with your dead cesium

2020-04-21 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi If people are scrapping out 5065’s there just *might* be a few of us interested in the various boards and modules that now are surplus to the “new” use. Contact me off list. I’ll gladly pay shipping. Bob > On Apr 21, 2020, at 3:48 PM, ed breya wrote: > > I did a similar thing with an

Re: [time-nuts] What to do with your dead cesium

2020-04-21 Thread Clint Jay
Well if anyone has the DC-DC converter from PRS50 that they've broken for spares I'd be similarly very interested On Tue, 21 Apr 2020, 22:22 Bob kb8tq, wrote: > Hi > > I figured it wouldn’t hurt to ask. > > Who knows, maybe all this talk has somebody else sending the > innards of one off to

Re: [time-nuts] Using speaker / earphone for PPS testing (not a question)

2020-04-21 Thread Neville Michie
I have found that a piezo sounder, a ceramic disk with two leads for making beepers works quite well for very short pulses. For a very short period charge flows into this device, which is a capacitor, and for that duration its dimensions are changed, and when it reverts to its original state

Re: [time-nuts] What to do with your dead cesium

2020-04-21 Thread ed breya
Sorry Bob, but in my case, it was long ago, and the few unnecessary 5065A boards are long gone. The carcass I got had no Rb tube, and a number of boards/modules were missing. I kept the power supply guts for redesign, the front panel ass'y, digital clock, mechanical parts, and a few odds and

Re: [time-nuts] What to do with your dead cesium

2020-04-21 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi I figured it wouldn’t hurt to ask. Who knows, maybe all this talk has somebody else sending the innards of one off to oblivion. Bob > On Apr 21, 2020, at 5:02 PM, ed breya wrote: > > Sorry Bob, but in my case, it was long ago, and the few unnecessary 5065A > boards are long gone. The