In the past we had a bit of discussion on the FEI5680A rubidiums that
are for sell on E-Bay.
The units advertised by a certain seller were not the stock/standard
units. The units the seller had were made for the cellular telephone
industry and the pin outs were different from the literature that the
seller pointed a link to, at the manufacturer's web site (These units
were reversed engineered by another time-nut and myself to find the
differences). The seller also pointed out the units were programmable,
and pointed to a link for a different rubidium at Tom's site at
http://www.leapsecond.com/museum/fei5650a/ as a programming example.
The units we purchased were advertised by the seller to be programmable
to 20 MHz.
A couple of "us" time nuts have bought the units, and we found they did
not program, as advertised by the seller. I specifically asked the
seller about programming information and he claimed to have a friend
that knew how. I asked for an introduction to the friend, and I never
heard from the seller again.
The DDS inside of this rubidium uses a 20 MHz clock, so in general, the
DDS is limited to a maximum output frequency of 10 MHz. Also the DDS
was not available to the user as a "optional" frequency output - the DDS
was part of the internal servo multiplier loop.
Tonight I was browsing E-bay, and I noticed a question from a user on
these rubidiums and the response of the seller, which I have cut and pasted:
Questions from other members : RUBIDIUM FE-5680A frequency standard 1pps
output Item number: 7545757082
Question & Answer Answered On
Q: Hello, Before bidding for this product I want to know if you
have capability in order to obtain the right 10 MHz frequency needed
from such standard. In fact all the topics I have read on Internet for
this product are saiding that each people who has buyed on Ebay this
product has never obtained any frequency output. Best regards.
Sep-12-05
A: Hello, Item was develop for 1 pps output. You can get some
8.xxx Mhz from inside from the frequency multiplication stage, so
whatever they said at the internet is ignorance of not knowing how to
use it. If you programm the unit you can get 10 MHz nominal, I cannot
supply any infor on the programming, however its available elsewhere. If
you do not know how to programm the unit, just buy an Symm Lpro with 10
Mhz nominal. What are your needs? Size? etc. thanks.
End of the paste -----
If the information is available elsewhere - we would sure like to know
where it is ! By the way, this has been going on for over a year now
(and its Sept 2005) !
Brian - N4FMN
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