[time-nuts] FE-5680A Loop Lock Indicator
Bob Stewart
bob at evoria.net
Sun Sep 22 20:11:14 EDT 2013
I just did a quick inline test with the 3456A. The resistor measured
just over 1000 ohms, and it's dropping just over 2.5V before it locks.
So, that's about 2.5ma current draw from the FE-5680A for about 90
seconds or so. I think we're just at the splitting hairs stage on this. =)
Bob
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> From: Al Wolfe <alw.k9si at gmail.com>
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>Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 6:43 PM
>Subject: Re: [time-nuts] FE-5680A Loop Lock Indicator
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> I'm surprised no one suggested using two 2N2222's in Darlington. Then a 22K or more from the base to the indicator pin would not load things down much. Collector load then 1.2K to 2k in series with the LED.
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>Al, K9SI
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