Hi The answer to the "how far can you go" is (as always) "that depends".
You can tweak a 10811 balance wise to get it's thermal gain up 10X over the factory settings. You may be able to go higher, but 10 is what's been published. That will give you an oscillator who's crystal is very insensitive to temperature. Pretty much 100% of the instability you see will be from the oscillator circuit. Since the crystal may be going one way when the circuit goes the other, the performance may actually be worse with the higher thermal gain. The real answer is to do temperature runs and to adjust things based on the transient and stabilized performance of your part. That way you can observe data that directly relates to the thermal control system. If you do decide to go with the high thermal gain case, doing a quick mod to put the unit on the B (thermometer) mode is definitely the right way to do it. You get things done in a couple hours that would take weeks otherwise. Bob On Jan 9, 2011, at 9:07 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > Being a Shera Fan I finally broke down and bought a Tbolt. I experimented > with a foam enclosure with roughly 1 centimeter on all sides. What I found > that it only increased the board temperature by 19 C. It was still as > sensitive to ambient. Thanks to Lady Heater it even shows an increase of 40 > mC > when I walk up to it with one minute delay.. Changing to an aluminum > extrusion the increase is only 7 C and the response is much slower. In its > final > assembly it will be inside a larger metal mass, I do not think that the > higher temperature of 56 C is conducive to longer life. Opinion: putting > foam > around a 10811 will only give you a warm feeling unless you make it much > larger than shown in the picture of of KH6GRT. > Based on the above test results I feel mass is more important. So I took a > aluminum enclosed dewar weighing 943 gr. and did first put a resistor in it > and heated it up with 2 W. Temp. did rise to 70 C. Next I disassembled my > worse 10811, which is very easy, since it is a nice compact unit and > inserted it in the dewar. Monitoring temp with my YSI it shows 65.2 C with > 24 C > ambient. Power dissipation is 1.575 W. Will track it over time before I > replace the 10811 with one of my better ones for frequency tests. > Questions to our experts: > A) will Removing the foam mess with the temp. control loop > B) How low can total power into the 10811 be before temp control can become > a problem, I think I am ok now, but once in a chassis with Shera and > power and battery the temp. surrounding the dewar may become a problem. > C) What is the preferred orientation of the unit. > > I asked already once before if any one has data on the 1 1 PPS output of > the Tbolt over time, since I am considering it as an alternative to a stand > alone GPS receiver, and if there are GPS receivers that outperform a Tbolt > what is the recommendation. It will be used to control a Rb. > Bert Kehren > > > In a message dated 1/7/2011 8:22:51 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > Has anyone experimented with the amount of insulation on a > 10544 or 10811 oscillator? They are meant to run hot by > design and I worry that adding any insulation, or too much > insulation, will either cause over-heating or limit the ability > of the oven control to maintain the set point. > > None of the hp/Agilent bench test equipment that uses these > oscillators uses insulation. Perhaps that's a clue. > > /tvb > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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.
