[time-nuts] question Alan deviation measured with Timelab and counters

Magnus Danielson magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org
Sun Jan 18 07:13:03 EST 2015


Hi Bob,

On 01/18/2015 04:25 AM, Bob Camp wrote:
> Hi
>
> I’m a little concerned about the measurement setup here. Based on the quoted text, there have been a few messages in the thread that have not showed up here.

The messages got accidentally posted in the wrong thread.

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> The “start” input on the counter is defined below. The “stop” input is not defined. Is the counter running in time interval mode or in frequency mode?
>
> IF it’s in time mode - what is the stop hooked to?
>
> IF it’s in frequent mode - what is the gate time set to ?
>
> Is the “standard input” the missing front panel input or is it the external reference input on the back panel?

I was also considering the setup strange in this regard. Common switched in?

> =========
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> I’m looking at the data on the link:
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> http://www.ptp-images.com/affiche-directement-l-image-kccsz71c9a.html
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> In both cases the slope is roughly 1/tau. Both plots end up in the 3 to 4 x 10^-13  range at 100 to 300 seconds. That’s suspiciously good performance for a rubidium or a GPSDO. Which is what makes me wonder about the setup.
>
> The Blue plot (1 pps?) ran for 18 minutes and has 1,114 points in it. The Pink plot ran for about 9 minutes and has a bit over 500 points in it. Both seem reasonable for a 1 pps to 10 MHz sort of setup. That may explain part of my confusion above.
>
> Again - I apologize if this all got explained in a post that went missing here.

Not really. The plots looks to me like measurement setup baseline plots, 
with some sine noise in them.

Cheers,
Magnus


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