Indeed interesting but the 5370s seem to go for $300-400 and this $1750. I had been lucky to get my 5370s pre-interest price accelerator so $50-75. Because who would ever want such a heavy thing? Much as I love the modern interfaces, size, quite, and low power consumption. The boat anchors stay. ;-)
Regards Paul WB8TSL On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Bob Camp <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > If I hit the Acquire / U6200A entry in the Timelab menu will it buy one > for me? > > How noisy is it? Put another way, it has 40 ps resolution, how close can > you get to that in terms of accuracy? > > Looks like a cool toy, thanks for sharing. > > Bob > > > > On Feb 11, 2012, at 7:52 AM, "Ulrich Bangert" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Gentlemen, > > > > a few weeks ago a link to a new counter named "U6200A" was to be found > here > > in the group. I considered the technical properties of this counter > (which > > is sold under the brands "Array" or "Picotest") that interesting at its > > price that i ordered one immediately. > > > > I did not buy it directly from China but instead from a German importer > > called OSCOMP. They were able to deliver me the counter with a built in > > GPIB-interface. I had not been able to allocate a seller in China with > this > > option. > > > > I am currently testing the counter and as far everything looks pretty > good. > > You can get an impression of the counter's capabilities by the direct > > comparison to the industry standard here: > > > > http://www.stantronic.de/b/Comparison-U6200A.pdf > > > > At its price and the 40 ps single shot resolution it may be a good idea > to > > buy such a counter new for time nuts purposes instead of hunting for used > > 5370s and SR620s. > > > > Since the manual claims that the counter features a "HP53132 compatible > SCPI > > command languge" I tried to run John Miles's Timelab with the counter > which > > failed in the beginning. Due to John's immediate reaction on my inquiry > > concerning the U6200a Timelab now has its own hardware entry for te > U6200A > > in the "Acquire" menu and my tests show that Timelab runs like charm with > > the U6200A. > > > > Note that Timelab checks the device id with a *IDN? and the current > version > > recognizes the Picotest brand answer to this. This may be different with > the > > Array brand id. > > > > Best regards > > > > Ulrich Bangert > > www.ulrich-bangert.de > > Ortholzer Weg 1 > > 27243 Gross Ippener > > Germany > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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.
