Tom wrote:
There's something very odd going on here, either with Pete's TBolt, and/or with
Mark's Heather v5.
2) It also shows some truly erratic behavior the last day and a half, with
multiple, massive, sudden temperature drops going down several degrees. I've
never seen this.
I think the more revealing trace is the DAC voltage. There are ~70mV
plunges, to a dead quiet (at this scale), more negative value. 70mV is
huge, corresponding to a -35e-9 frequency shift (350mHz). If the DAC
voltage actually changed that much, it would pull the OCXO so far off
frequency during these events that it would take much, much longer than
shown (indeed, much longer than the width of these events) to
re-stabilize. Yet we see clean jumps within seconds, and no settling.
(Unfortunately, the Tbolt's estimation of frequency is not plotted on
the posted screen shot.)
I find it hard to believe that LH does much processing of the reported
DAC voltage, so I think it's safe to say (1) the LH plot shows
accurately what the Tbolt is reporting (at least WRT the DAC voltage),
and (2) the actual DAC voltage is not doing what the Tbolt is reporting.
Looks like a sick Tbolt to me.
Best regards,
Charles
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