[time-nuts] 53132A counter slow frequency update

Rick Karlquist richard at karlquist.com
Tue Jun 28 18:13:40 UTC 2011


Do you have the autotrigger (or whatever it is called) engaged?
That will slow things down if it is hunting for the zero crossing.

Rick


John Pease wrote:
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> Hello,
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> My new to me counter has a strange response when I change the input
> frequency. With the gate set to 1s, I can measure 100 MHz with plenty of
> digits. Then I change the frequency to 1 MHz and it takes several seconds
> to almost a minute for the display to change from 100 MHz to 1 MHz. The
> delay only occurs when I lower the input frequency quite a bit; 100 MHz to
> 10 MHz changes are displayed within 2 gate times. When I increase the
> frequency form 1 MHz to 100 MHz I always get the correct display after two
> gate times. This delay is proportional to the gate time; the updating is
> 10 times faster with 0.1 s gate time.
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> Is this behavior typical for this counter?
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> Thank you
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> John Pease
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