[time-nuts] fts 4050 performance

Christopher Hoover ch at murgatroid.com
Tue Aug 1 00:51:26 EDT 2006


> What did the datasheet show for the 4050?

For the standard tube:

0.01s		2 x 10^-10
1s		7 x 10^-12
10s		7 x 10^-12
100s		5 x 10^-12
1000s		2 x 10^-12
10000s	5 x 10^-13
100000s	2 x 10^-13

> In the short-term the resolution of the 53132 will
> limit the results. In the mid-term your 4050 will
> expose the limitations of the 3801. And in the
> very long-term the 3801 will expose the limitations
> of the 4050. Make sense?

Yes, that makes much sense.   

I have 5370B, so maybe I will crank that up for
somewhat better results on the short term
measurements.   

> I hope you plan to keep the experiment running so
> you can plot out to larger tau.

I do and I will.

Thanks much for the help.

-ch





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