Bob wrote:
The one thing that autotune seems to do well is to come up with the actual sensitivity of the OCXO you have. It depends on a few things to do this so it might go wrong. I’ve never seen it come up with the wrong number. It then appears to drop in a gain and damping that make more sense than the original numbers. Since it is a pre-defined pair of numbers, it is indeed a “one size fits all” solution.
Warren, who I understand provided the algorithms for the autotune routine, has advocated in a number of list postings damping factors much lower than what I consider optimal (and in some cases below the factory default of 1.2). Also, in the case of my units, the autotune function adjusted the tuning rate parameter (OCXO sensitivity) for substantially increased loop gain, which effectively decreased the damping even further. So, one of the results [long ago, and with my very small sample of Tbolts] was to adjust the loop toward and even into instability.
It also seemed to tinker with parameters I didn't expect it to change, which is why I had to do a hard reset rather than just re-program the settings that I had changed as a result of my prior experimentation.
Again, I have no idea why it did this, and it is very possible that the autotune routine on current versions of LH works perfectly and gives an optimum tuning very painlessly. But back when I tried it, with my two Tbolts, it made them pretty much unusable.
No big deal -- just evaluate the operation of your Tbolt after using the autotune routine, and if you find that it did not produce the results you hoped for, be prepared to do a hard reset and tune it manually. If it works well, then great!
Best regards, Charles _______________________________________________ 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.
