Ulrich Bangert said the following on 04/04/2009 06:13 AM: >> As a curiosity, there are various variants of the original 4046 which >> has different sensitivity on the input side... one of them >> has several inverters in a row to get the needed gain where as the other > variant >> does not. This difference made a huge difference in some applications. > > are you going to say with that it would be reasonable to test different > brands for input sensivity? I have been believing that all brands have this > inverter chain.
Brooks Shera used the 4046 as the input conditioning circuit in his GPSDO that was published quite a while ago. I seem to recall that he noted only certain brands seemed to work well, but I don't recall the details. John _______________________________________________ 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.
