True enough, but don't forget that a shaker table is a big moving electromagnet right next to the device under test. I would think that the shaker's field would dominate any such errors, especially for larger tables running in random vibration or pulse modes.
Cheers, Neil www.gruending.net On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <[email protected]> wrote: > In message > <of2e427f16.3b191983-on85257704.0060021c-85257704.00603...@mck.us.ra > y.com>, Joseph M Gwinn writes: > >>> If anyone knows a good inductor-series (leaded or smt) that is >>> known-insensitive to vibration please let us know! >> >>Air wound coil potted in wax. Or soft epoxy. You can make your own, if >>it comes to that. > > Be aware that all non-closed coils are microfonic relative to the > earths magnetic field, and there is nothing you you can do about > it, but a closed design (toroid) or a mu-metal shield. > > This is more pronounced for cored coils than air-coils, because all > core materials has magnetic hysteresis. > > The effect is usually ignored, but I wouldn't be surprised if it > showed up for time-nuts... > > Poul-Henning > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
