Hi,
the range of the adjustment is probably far wider than you would ever
need
as you will be applying it continuously instead of over a few hours
to correct the clock to the latest
observations.
So all you need is an amplifier run off + and - 15 Volts with enough
gain for the DAC output.
That should give you + or - 10Volts.
You may also need a reference diode, say 2.5 volts, to provide an
offset voltage to the input of the amplifier
if you want to set the zero of the control range and possibly offset
a single ended DAC output
to span either side of zero.
cheers,
Neville Michie
On 08/08/2010, at 12:10 PM, J. Forster wrote:
Since it's inside a closed loop, the design is uncritical.
One option is a high voltage Op-Amp with +/- 25 to 30 VDC supplies.
You
would set the OA gain to about 10, so 2.5 V in would yield 25 V
out. and
sum in a negative offset voltage so that +2.5 from the DAC yields
0.0 V
out. I'd use something like a 100 K FB resistor and a 10K from the
DAC,
assuming it's a voltage output DAC. A 1 M to the -25 V supply would
provide the 2.5 V offset.
Another option would be to use two series opamps with the first set
up as
above, and the second as a unity gain inverter with input connected
to the
output of the first. The coil would connect between the two OA
outputs. As
one output swings high, the other mirrors that and goes low (just
as in an
H bridge). Stability might be an issue, but this has the advantage
of only
needing a +/- 15 supplies.
FWIW,
-John
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Hi all,
I have a Seimens master clock with a Reiffler pendulum. A lovely
piece
of work that used to provide time services in the 40s.
Being a master clock it has contacts that open and close on each
pendulum swing and so I can monitor it's accuracy quite easily using
gps and my 5370B.
I've adjusted it as best I can and the best I can get is about 50 ms
over 24 hours. However that was a one off. Temp and air pressure
cause
variations of up to 300 ms and it changes direction too. Basically
it's hard to keep accurate.
It also has a coil mounted near the pendulum and a fixed magnet on
the
pendulum bar and this coil connects to a box down below with a meter
and a knob. They are labelled in sec/day. The electronics in the box
are not clear (being quite old) but by measuring the current in the
coil it quite simply increases the current one way to slow the clock
and the other way to speed it up. (I'll admit the physics of this
doesn't make sense to me - but it works!)
It's about 25v in the coil and goes up to 60mA max. Even at levels of
2mA has an effect.
Using this control it's quite easy to manually bring the clock
back to
the right time if it's say half a second fast.
What I want to do is control the current in the coil with a micro
controller which I have attached to a rubidium oscillator. Getting
the
pps from the pendulum clock in and comparing to actual time is easy,
but I need a way to control the current through the coil so it can
dynamically adjust the clock.
I need the current to go from say -10 to +10 mA (at 25v) and this
needs to be controlled via a micro controller output (which goes from
0 to 5 with 2.5 being the 0mA point).
I can either use the D/A in the controller (or PWM an output I
suppose).
I'd appreciate some thoughts on circuits to do this. Software side is
not a problem.
Jim Palfreyman
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