I also located a couple of units in my inventory. But U 7 is not critical, it was at the time an elegant way to perform two functions. Now that it is not readily available the fix is to use a 6 MHz resonator between pin 9 and 10 on the PIC. 6 MHz is not critical for the over all function except it sets the RS232 baud rate. 24 MHz is not critical either except it has to be a frequency the HC4520 can handle. Changing Frequency will change range and resolution. Brooks has a later version of the PIC available (V402) but since he has not responded to my emails I do not know how it exactly differs from V133. I use 133 and have excellent results tailored to my needs by modifying circuits around it like automatic filter sequencing in case of power failure, using 100 MHz counter and dividing interrupts by 4 to increase sample size. Since I have extra unmodified A&A boards with the 16C73 for the fun of it we ran a unit tying it directly to a Morion MV89 and got 3 E-12! No matching. Next we will do the same with a FEI 5680 controlling the C field and it will require some matching so I expect 2 E-13. Again nothing changed on the A&A board. I have extra populated A&A boards and AD 1861's, if any one is interested contact me off list Bert Kehren In a message dated 5/14/2012 9:57:25 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
Hi Kevin - I have a spare I can send you. I responded direct to your email but no reply. Merv VK6BMT _______________________________________________ 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.
