[time-nuts] Thought experiment on a low cost timing board
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sun Feb 26 02:57:54 EST 2006
In message <13c.25b46209.3132504c at aol.com>, SAIDJACK at aol.com writes:
>Good OCXO's (e.g. MTI) crystals usually age between 3E-09 to 5E-010 per day
>as per their spec.
They use this for the "O"CXO which is steered by the Rb cell, so they have
a very high feedback frequency, so I think they just live with the steps.
That said, with a decent quality DAC, a step on the upper DAC would not
give an error of more than maybe ten steps on the lower DAC.
>You mentioned there are some discontinuities when the coarse DAC switches
>(since the coarse and fine dacs have to switch simultaneously I guess to prevent
> glitches). How bad are these discontinuities/glitches?
I can't see them in my log.
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