Bob is point on
Said another way ...few of us consider the value of our time in these
projects ..Lets say your personal time is worth $50/hour (cheap cheap
for a professional today) let's say you have to spend 10 hours testing
this oscillator that puts the real cost of the oscillator at $500+ ....
suddenly some things don't look like such good bargains.
The other side of the coin is that if you learn something new about
oscillators and their behavior and the supporting electronics circuitry
then $500 is a cheap educational seminar <grin>.
Dave
NR1DX
On 2/18/2016 7:09 AM, Bob Camp wrote:
Hi
It is*much* better to have an OCXO that you do not need to test to death.
There is simply to much testing to do. A modern factory does not test the
quality into the product (of any sort) they design in and build it in. The same
is true of the normal customer for virtually any component. They make sure
the parts come from somebody they can trust and save a lot of testing time.
That said, yes, I have a pile of scrap parts sitting in front of me as I type
this.
It’s a hobby. Time does not count. It lets me play with all sorts of toys doing
the testing. I occasionally learn things in the process. Mostly I learn that
my hope of a 100% perfect batch is still a dream ….
Bob
--
Dave
[email protected]
www.ArtekManuals.com
---
This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.
https://www.avast.com/antivirus
_______________________________________________
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.
