[time-nuts] HP 5370B
Bruce Griffiths
bruce.griffiths at xtra.co.nz
Sat May 10 01:23:33 EDT 2008
Hal Murray wrote:
>> That's 3 orders of magnitude better resolution. That brings up noise
>> that at 9d/s is simply negligible.
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>> My two 5370s are rock stable if I only look at the 9 left-most digits.
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> Where is the noise coming from?
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> Is it on the input signal or in the 5370?
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> If it's in the 5370, what good are 12 digits?
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Which 12 digits of the 16 available do you mean?
Having sufficient digits so that measurement noise is displayed is very
useful when making accurate measurements.
Bruce
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