Bob, > If I hit the Acquire / U6200A entry in the Timelab menu will > it buy one for me?
Perhaps John is willing to add an "Buy item for me" menu entry? > How noisy is it? Put another way, it has 40 ps resolution, > how close can you get to that in terms of accuracy? Good question! That is what I am currently trying to evaluate. But for that purpose I wanted to have TimeLab up and running first. Best regards Ulrich > -----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- > Von: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Bob Camp > Gesendet: Samstag, 11. Februar 2012 14:08 > An: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > Betreff: Re: [time-nuts] Picotest U6200A & Timelab > > > 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.
