[time-nuts] Telecom Solutions DCD Cesium

Robert Crawford avitek at wwnet.net
Fri Mar 17 19:49:12 EST 2006


Magnus,

Could I trouble you for the photos as well?  I might have a similar item 
here that I've been working with for the last month or so.  It has the 
same FTS 7045 cesium tube and a serial port.

Send them to avitek at wwnet.net.

Bob Crawford

Magnus Danielson wrote:

>From: Bill Janssen <billj at ieee.org>
>Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Telecom Solutions DCD Cesium
>Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 16:15:17 -0800
>Message-ID: <441B5115.4080309 at ieee.org>
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>>Rob Kimberley wrote:
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>>>I believe that these were originally made by Datum/Austron and badged by TS.
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>>And Datum/Austron bought Frequency and Time (FTS). FTS made Cesium 
>>standards so it is probably an updated FTS Cesium.
>>    
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>
>The tube is a FTS-7504 and the internal label for the box says
>DATUM Model DCD S/N 0020002116 P/N 08949-501.
>
>So, it's certainly FTS/DATUM gear.
>
>I'll power it up and see what LEDs light up and which doesn't.
>
>There is a serial port on it. It would be good to have the pinning and know the
>commands for it, if there is a fault I would like to know more in detail, but
>also I want to keep track of its health beyond the relay contacts.
>
>Cheers,
>Magnus
>
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