Re: [time-nuts] PPS pulse length (was: 1PPS for the beginner)

2018-08-14 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 10:34 PM Tom Van Baak wrote: > One version of this would be to make the pulse width 100 ns * (1+STOD), where > STOD (Seconds-Time-Of-Day) varies from 0 to 86399. So your pulse width > would vary from 100 ns to 864 ns = 8.64 ms. If 100 ns is too short use a >

Re: [time-nuts] PPS pulse length (was: 1PPS for the beginner)

2018-08-14 Thread Tom Van Baak
> Arecibo did a kind of cute trick with their distributed 1PPS. The one > second pulses were of one length > (100 ns as I recall), but the 10 sec boundaries had the pulses be about > twice that length. One could carry > this scheme to considerable lengths as desired. Dana, One version of this

Re: [time-nuts] PPS pulse length (was: 1PPS for the beginner)

2018-08-14 Thread Dana Whitlow
Arecibo did a kind of cute trick with their distributed 1PPS. The one second pulses were of one length (100 ns as I recall), but the 10 sec boundaries had the pulses be about twice that length. One could carry this scheme to considerable lengths as desired. Dana On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 4:00

[time-nuts] PPS pulse length (was: 1PPS for the beginner)

2018-08-14 Thread Attila Kinali
On Tue, 14 Aug 2018 20:52:50 +0200 "Bernd Neubig" wrote: > Is there any common practice for the duty cycle of the 1 PPS pulse? As short as the consumer can take. Because a long pulse means that you are wasting energy and heating up both the pulse generator and the consumer. As TvB wrote, it