[time-nuts] RE CSAC Project(was CSAC purchase)

Bob kb8tq kb8tq at n1k.org
Tue Jan 23 15:56:19 EST 2018


Hi

The original RbXO was not a whole lot bigger than the Rb. The CSAC
is a *lot* smaller than the Rb’s of that era. The TCXO’s and OCXO’s today
are a lot smaller as well. I’d bet you could do it in < 2X the volume of the
CSAC with a pretty good OCXO and < 1.2X the volume with a precision TCXO.

Bob

> On Jan 23, 2018, at 3:36 PM, Ronald Held <ronaldheld at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Bob:
>  What is you idea of portable in terms of size and mass for RbXO?
>            Ronald
> Jim
>   I suppose I am try to do "better' and my TCXO watches which at best
> run around a second/year.
> 
> 
>    OCXO and TCXO are both available smaller than the CSAC (particularly
> tcxo).  I'm using a vectron EX-421 OCXO and it's about 1cm on a side,
> the OX205 is about 1" square and maybe 0.60" tall.
> 
> TCXOs are available in "cellphone" form factors (e.g. tiny SMT packages)
> 
> 
> 
> Bob:
>  Long term, maybe a year, sounds like a reasonable goal. Maybe I am
> just chasing the next zero, if I have the metaphor correct?
>        Ronald
> 
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> I’m guessing there was a question to me that somehow got lost in the world of
> ones and zeros ….
> 
> My comment was in terms of temperature stability. The CSAC has a temp stability
> specification of +/-4x10^-10 over -10 to +70C. There are TCXO’s that
> will get below
> 5x10^-9 over that range and use far less power. There are OCXO’s that will get
> to better temperature stability numbers over that range.  Neither one
> will do the long
> term aging that a Rb will.
> 
> Bob
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