[time-nuts] pps vs. 10 MHz timing

Brian Kirby kirbybq at bellsouth.net
Fri Dec 12 06:34:51 UTC 2008


Are you using terminations or is the end equipment properly terminating 
?  Mismatched impedance does weird things to waveforms.  Also check to 
make sure you not overdriving on your source.  And a bad power supplies 
can induce waveform distortion.

Brian

Matt Ettus wrote:
> 
> 
> Also, I noticed that the TADD-1 has some weird distortion of a 10 MHz
> sine wave.  It turns it into a sort of a 3 valued square wave.
> Essentially, it stops and dwells at the midpoint for a while instead
> of making a sharp transition.  I think this would be bad if that dwell
> point is close to the threshold for the receiving device.  Has anyone
> else noticed this?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt
> 
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