>What are the important features to look for in an time sync piece of >hardware? > >Anyone have a list of the good/required/nice to have features?
While accepting the "horses for courses" comments, how about these ideas: These features would relate to ANY equipment: 1) "Turn-key" operation. Often you will just want to plug a piece of equipment in, and it should work with no user intervention. 2) Logging output. A simple output that can optionally be used to see everything is working OK. 3) Configurability. 4) Optional manual operation of normally automatic functions. 5) If controllable via front-panel display and buttons, a sufficiently complex display to easily see what is needed, and enough buttons to make control simple without stepping up, down, and sideways through endless menus. Specifically for time/frequency synchronising (and perhaps these are performance specs rather than features): 1) Timing accuracy. 2) Timing jitter and wander (ADEV and MTIE). 3) Step sizes (time and frequency). 4) Effects of power supply and environmental variations (temperature, humidity, vibration). Peter _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
