[time-nuts] Hydrogen Maser KIT! Update #1

[Attila Kinali]

On Mon, 03 Nov 2014 00:39:24 +0100
Magnus Danielson <magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org> wrote:

> It is worth knowing that active masers have a span for how the hydrogen 
> in-flux will make it oscillate or not. Too little or too high, and the 
> oscillation will die off. It may be one of the things to tune up if you 
> got an older one which needs a bit of good old Love, Tender and Care.

BTW: I always ment to ask, what makes H-Masers stop when there is
too much hydrogen? I can understand too little H causes the system
not having enough atoms to probe (or not getting enough energy into
the system for active masers), but i don't understand the "too many" case.

			Attila Kinali

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