[time-nuts] Weird TEC data

[Hal Murray]

newell at cei.net said:
> The general shape and bumps in the plots track nicely, but I'm  wondering
> why there's so many cycles difference after 36 hours. 

How are you collecting the data?  What's the time between samples?

One possibility is that one system is picking up extra clock ticks.  If your 
data is dense enough, that should be pretty obvious if you zoom in on the 
graph.

Here is an example:
  http://www.megapathdsl.net/~hmurray/time-nuts/60Hz/60Hz-g3.png
That's sampling every 10 seconds.

Glitches like that are easy to spot if you plot the frequency.  It's the 
difference in counts divided by the difference in times between a pair of 
samples.  At 10 second sampling rate, you get 600 counts per sample.  601 
counts turns into 60.1 Hz.  That 0.1 Hz is well above the noise.  (at least 
with my setup)




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