Hi,
there are two obvious causes of lost lock,
wandering off beyond the range of the voltage controlled crystal
local oscillator, not an OXCO, which is swept through the atomic
response frequency,
and the failure of the rubidium lamp at the end of its life.
The oscillator sweeping voltage (pin 9) has limits and if the correct
frequency is not in the range lock is not possible. If the VCXO has
drifted it may be possible to add/remove a tiny amount of capacitance
from the oscillator circuit to get it in range.
The rubidium lamp voltage (pin 5) is between 3 (low) and 14 volts, at
the end of the lamp life it goes low.
This is all from my memory, the detail is in the User's guide and
integration guidelines.
cheers, Neville Michie
On 16/09/2010, at 4:51 PM, [email protected] wrote:
I got one of the ebay LPRO-101s about 6 months ago and played with
it for a while, but had problems maintaining a lock. First of all,
it has a heat sink bolted to the bottom that is just a little
larger than the LPRO itself, including being about 1.25" thick( 1"
fins). Typical frequency when locked is 10,000,000.007 on a 5360A
clocked by a Z3801A.
Both then and now, it takes about 45 seconds to lock from cold, and
will stay locked for about 45 minutes. I found that in the position
with the heat sink on the bottom will stay locked the longest (up
to a few days), but then it becomes intermittent. Other positions
will lock for a while, but bottom down always works the longest.
For those of you who employed these in TM5xx or similar plugins,
did you have lock issues? Is my unit just old?
Dave
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