[time-nuts] Tbolt issues
EWKehren at aol.com
EWKehren at aol.com
Thu Sep 1 21:11:56 UTC 2016
For us it is absolute Frequency, to me it is a measure of true performance.
In a message dated 9/1/2016 4:52:35 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
kb8tq at n1k.org writes:
Hi
I think one issue here is that ADEV is being used by one “lab" and
absolute frequency is being used by the other.
They very much are *not* the same thing. There isn’t even a really simple
way to convert one to the other.
There will always be a big delta between those two measures. For absolute
frequency you will also need
some sort of confidence number (99 % or some such thing). The details of
why all this happens are the
mainstay of the 1960’s (and early 70’s) papers on ADEV.
Bob
> On Sep 1, 2016, at 3:11 PM, Tom Van Baak <tvb at LeapSecond.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Bert,
>
>> because the frequency is constantly changed to correct time.
>
> A simple answer: you may have a bad TBolt. Was it part of the TAPR group
buy, or did you buy it from eBay/China? If TAPR, you get a free
replacement. Contact me off-list.
>
>> Tbolt is an excellent time device but not good for frequency reference
past 1E-10.
>
> No, again it sounds like you have a bad TBolt. Or something is wrong
(antenna? reception? time constant? environment? China resoldered parts?). I
appreciate that Juerg did lots of testing -- do you happen to have his ADEV
plot?
>
> I'm willing to help you debug this.
>
> (1) Attached is the ADEV of 8 random TBolts that I tested recently. How
does this compare to yours? You can see mine are all under 2e-12 at 1 s and
under 4e-12 at 100 s. On a bad day during holdover it might climb to 1e-11
at 1000 s but when locked GPS disciplining takes over and keeps it down to
2 or 3e-12.
>
> (2) For locked vs. unlocked TBolt ADEV, see
http://www.leapsecond.com/pages/gpsdo/
>
> (3) Also attached is a frequency plot showing the typical noise and
wander, down at the 1e-11 level. How does this compare with yours?
>
> Your claim of 1e-10 is order(s) of magnitude worse than the TBolts that
I see. Something is wrong.
>
> /tvb
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bert Kehren via time-nuts" <time-nuts at febo.com>
> To: <time-nuts at febo.com>
> Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2016 9:54 AM
> Subject: [time-nuts] Tbolt issues
>
>
>> We have been following the Tbolt power discussions but what I am
missing is
>> the main problem with Tbolts. All the power work will not improve the
>> frequency performance of the unit because the frequency is constantly
changed
>> to correct time. Tbolt is an excellent time device but not good for
>> frequency reference past 1E-10. I noticed it when I bought it and
compared it with
>> my Tracor 527E on the needle and ever since used an Austron 2110 with
a
>> digital 100 sec. loop for clean up. My Swiss partner Juerg has relied
on an
>> OSA F3 for Tbolt clean up but continuous bad results on our work
resulted in
>> a detailed analysis using a HP53132A counter and M100, FTS44060, two
>> OSA8600's and one of the best FE405's. The rsult is that the OSA F3
does not
>> clean up the Tbolt and we see +-4E-11 changes and old data shows even
some +-8
>> E-11 excursions. With the popularity of the Tbolt an analog or digital
>> clean up loop would make sense. We are working on both, the analog
because I
>> saw similar behavior on the FE5680 and FE5650, we did a GPSDO but do
not plan
>> on using those Rb's but focus on M100 and FRK.
>> The collective expertise of time nuts could make a significant
contribution
>> For power in critical applications we use the excellent work from Bern
Kaa
>> a friend for the last twenty years and well known because of his
published
>> work in the European HAM community
>> Bert Kehren
>
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