Hi If you want to avoid a crazy power supply, you decouple the power to the output amplifier on the PPS driver. Nice big caps, droop a little during the pulse. Charge up while there's no pulse.
Bob On May 14, 2012, at 8:44 PM, Mike S wrote: > On 5/14/2012 8:21 PM, Tom Van Baak wrote: >> one day during an experiment where I was >> comparing a large set of clocks I noticed my lab's digital AC power >> meter was jumping by tens of watts every second. >> >> The last thing you want >> in a precision timing lab is to load your AC line down exactly once a >> second. > > How does a short pulse help? It's still "tens of watts every second," but > instead of lasting 0.5 seconds, it lasts 0.00005 seconds. Less power used > overall, but still the same sudden change on the second. > > _______________________________________________ > 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.
