Since most modern PCs have at least one temperature sensor on the motherboard, I wonder if it would be possible to monitor that to help compensate for temperature changes. I realize the locations of said sensor can be anywhere on the board, but you would think it could help out *some* amount.
> i've seen that myself, NTP's compensation can almost be used as a way to > measure room temperature. You can see the AC cycles. For this reason I > keep the NTP server in a walk in closet that lacks heating duct. The room > temp cycles slowly. > > I've also read but can't remember where about a project to replace the TTL > can oscillator in a PC with a better quality one driven from a OCXO. That > is a lot of work for small gain. > > One thing about that study. I notice the author had t remove the PPS > reference clock. It looks like he was unabe to get the graph to move at > all with PPS attached. I'd like to see the same study done with a good > PPS reference clock let connected. Likely the results would be > uninteresting, just a flat graph. _______________________________________________ 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.
