I opened an article in the Wiki for the FE-5680A pin out, based on a previous posting on my web site. Feel free to add to it, or create new ones.
Didier KO4BB Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless thingy while I do other things... -----Original Message----- From: Rex <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:42:53 To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement<[email protected]> Reply-To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] FE-5680A Mechanical Question I think we really need a FAQ, particularly for the 5680A. Maybe Didier would provide a place. (Or is it already there?) How many times, just in the last month or so, have the same questions been thrashed over and over again? - Pinouts - versions - reverse engineering wheel reinvention - Voltages, currents - They aren't rivets, they are screws. Someone just mentioned torx, but I think they were hex. - Heat sink. (My consensus -- a heat sink makes sense for more than one reason.) - Enclosure, mounting, insulation. - Programming and capabilities vs. age, configuration. - Crypticness of FEI docs and part numbers. Unresponsiveness from FEI to questions. - PPS or not. Width, terminations, levels, ringing. - Rubidium tube life, restoration. - What is that other oscillator for? - Performance measurements or questions. Some things are known. Refinements beyond that are on topic. Then the truly wasted space. I got mine, I got mine, I got mine, I used this power supply. How long does a shipment from China take? I know some of you are newly excited but this is getting really painful. I hate to just delete them all because occasionally one or a few people really do add some new knowledge or insights. I have learned new things in that last several weeks, But recently, I have had to slash and burn quite a few messages for time and sanity reasons. I have been watching these 5680A bursts happen for several years, but this latest one is particularly intense because questions get asked and answered, but no one seems to read all of them or remember the answers, so the same exact questions, answers and debates begin again in days. There are so many posts now that searching the archives on this would require a semester or so to filter out a probably somewhat trustworthy answer. On 1/11/2012 6:22 PM, J. L. Trantham wrote: > Should I ever have time to pursue the Rb unit, what happens when I 'drill > out' all the rivets that mount the unit to the PCB that it arrived on? Any > reason to keep it on the PCB? > > > > Does the bottom cover come off? Will I need to replace the rivets with > something else to keep the bottom cover on? > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Joe > > _______________________________________________ > 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.
