Re: [time-nuts] eBay Ublox

2012-11-09 Thread David J Taylor
Thanks to the folk here for pointing out the ublox receivers. I managed to get one off eBay for ~US $30 with antenna on a board designed for hobbyists with 3.3V serial and PPS outputs (I needed to add one wire for that) which feed directly into a Raspberry Pi. It's still to be completed, but

Re: [time-nuts] eBay Ublox

2012-11-09 Thread paul swed
most interested in you progress. What will be the total power consumption of the pi and gps rcvr? On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 3:17 AM, David J Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: Thanks to the folk here for pointing out the ublox receivers. I managed to get one off eBay for ~US $30 with

Re: [time-nuts] eBay Ublox

2012-11-09 Thread David J Taylor
-Original Message- From: paul swed most interested in you progress. What will be the total power consumption of the pi and gps rcvr? === I've not measured the total, Paul, but the Raspberry Pi is about 700 mA and the GPS receiver less than 100 mA, so

Re: [time-nuts] getting a grip on 10811 drift (beginner-ishquestion)

2012-11-09 Thread Chris Howard
My perpetually drifting 10811 pretty quickly made it to the negative voltage rail on the control voltage. I was looking at the oscillator output with an O-scope and it looked pretty nasty. My equipment is not so hot, so I first chalked that up to bad probes. But I did some google work on that

Re: [time-nuts] eBay Ublox

2012-11-09 Thread paul swed
oh thats my kind of basement wall wart. Place it on the wall and forget it. I have nas drives that way. They spin down and power consumption is I want to say 5-8 watts been a long time. May be lower. You access them they spin up and get your data stay up for a while and back down. A quite basement

Re: [time-nuts] getting a grip on 10811 drift (beginner-ishquestion)

2012-11-09 Thread Azelio Boriani
Unfortunately, experience is a lantern lighting the way already done... and it takes months to forge a good sword: no one should break any sword. On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 10:53 PM, Chris Howard ch...@elfpen.com wrote: My perpetually drifting 10811 pretty quickly made it to the negative voltage

Re: [time-nuts] getting a grip on 10811 drift (beginner-ish question)

2012-11-09 Thread Charles P. Steinmetz
Chris wrote: My perpetually drifting 10811 pretty quickly made it to the negative voltage rail on the control voltage. Is this an oscillator you just powered up after it had been off for a long time? The most common versions of the 0811 are specified for drift of less than 5 x 10e-10 per

Re: [time-nuts] getting a grip on 10811 drift (beginner-ishquestion)

2012-11-09 Thread WarrenS
Chris HP 10811 can't drift that much that fast unless something is near broken, or being connected wrong like gnds or PS voltage. Check the operation of the oven. It must be close and sort of working otherwise it would not be on freq as close as it is, but maybe it is drifting. The other

Re: [time-nuts] eBay Ublox

2012-11-09 Thread David J Taylor
oh thats my kind of basement wall wart. Place it on the wall and forget it. I have nas drives that way. They spin down and power consumption is I want to say 5-8 watts been a long time. May be lower. You access them they spin up and get your data stay up for a while and back down. A quite