[time-nuts] Thunderbolt accuracy...??

Edwin B. Walker ebwalker at embarqmail.com
Sun Dec 21 00:26:14 UTC 2008


I wonder if companies don't junk equipment because "electrolytic capacitors 
last years not decades" Does this  make sense?

Ed
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> Richard W. Solomon wrote:
>> ..."junk GPSDO"... . Are you sure of that statement ?
>> The Cal Lab where I retired from had one of those "junk GPSDO's"
>> that they used. The only difference between theirs and mine (that
>> I built) was the 3 orders of magnitude difference in price !!
>>
>> 73, Dick, W1KSZ
>>
>>
>
> He said, [a] "junk GPSDO that I salvaged from telco equipment."
>
> A poor choice of words, perhaps, but I think the intention may be that
> the telco took it out of service for some reason and "junked" it. Not
> necessarily an adjective denoting quality. More than 90 % of my
> high-tech equipment is "junk".
>
>
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