[time-nuts] How I got my FE-5680A to lock in Sydney, Australia

Magnus Danielson magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org
Mon Feb 10 16:40:48 EST 2014


On 10/02/14 16:59, Ed Palmer wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
> This behaviour reinforces my thought that there's something physically
> wrong inside the unit.  I'd be tapping it with the plastic handle of my
> screwdriver while I rotated it to see if it would lose lock.
>
> Think of it this way:  Do you want to fix it now or have it fail again
> in a few months when you're using it for something important?

I'm with Ed here. Keep working out the systematics of this beast, 
because you want to make sure it doesn't happen again. Also, it's now 
that you learn, you can then run it for 10 years without learning much more.

Cheers,
Magnus



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