I've had the pleasure of "playing" with one of these, when I was under contract to a UK company that was selling Timing Solutions products before they were bought by Symmetricom. A really nice piece of kit and very easy to use. Would be a great addition to any timing lab, but outside my personal reach at present!
Enjoy! Rob -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: 04 January 2012 22:20 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [time-nuts] FE-5680A performance Yes, it is the most amazing time nut tool! The older TSC5115A is also amazing. I consider myself very lucky... bye, Said In a message dated 1/4/2012 14:17:48 Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Wow, have you a TSC5125A? Lucky you... On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 11:12 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Graham, > > the TSC5125A has auto-scaled the plot to 2E-04Hz fractional frequency from > 10MHz, or in other words one vertical division is 2E-011 at 10MHz, or > 20 parts per trillion, or 0.0002Hz error. > > I also don't like the way the TSC shows the frequency, and the fact > that you can only capture about 9 minutes of information for some > reason. Why not show 24 hours or 48 hours of data here? > > With this in mind, the FE5680A wanders around about +/-6E-011 max in > this plot. > > Hope that helps, > Said > > > In a message dated 1/4/2012 13:41:07 Pacific Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > On 1/4/2012 3:18 PM, [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) wrote: > Here is a set of performance plots for the FE5680A that we had > measured > > before. > > > > Performance has improved significantly, ADEV is now in the xE-012's. > > > > Phase noise and spurs are worse than originally reported, they kind > of > > suck. > > > > Frequency over time looks quite nice though, definitely quite useful > as a > > frequency reference. > > > > bye, > > Said > > > Said: > > Your vertical units per division for the frequency plot don't make sense. > Please re-check and let us know. > > Thanks, > --- Graham > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
