> There is a lot of noise on the line. I'm not sure if frequency makes sense
> on a cycle to cycle basis.
Hal, it might make sense since the OP is designing a PLL and wants to get a
feel for (short-term) frequency excursions. I would guess the whole point of
his experiment is to quantify this; not just say there is "a lot" or "not much"
noise over some number N of cycles.
So that's why I posted the ADEV plot, which itself was based on timing every
zero-crossing (using a time-stamping counter, not a frequency counter).
> Two suggestions:
>
> With a transformer and a few resistors, you can feed the line into the audio
> input on a PC. Then you can search for zero crossings, run it through a
> filter, feed it to a FFT...
>
> You can also feed the line into a modem control signal on a PC serial port.
> (USB probably won't work.) The PPS logic from NTP will count cycles and
> record a timestamp on the last one.
For those of you using plain old Windows instead of NTP/PPS/Linux I have a DCD
pin serial port time-stamping tool which works pretty well (on an idle system)
to measure every cycle, 60 lines per second:
http://leapsecond.com/tools/pctsc.c
http://leapsecond.com/tools/pctsc.exe
Since the DCD pin is bipolar by design one can connect the secondary of, say, a
6 or 9 or 12 VAC wall transformer directly to pins 1 and 5. Use a 1k resistor
if you're paranoid. It works fine with direct COM ports or USB/serial adapters.
/tvb
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