[time-nuts] Driving clocks from 1pps

[Sanjeev Gupta]

Wow.  Talk about saving money :-)

I am amazed at the environmentally-friendly reuse I see on this list.
-- 
Sanjeev Gupta
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On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 5:33 AM, Mark Sims <holrum at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> I found a nice wall clock that somebody had tossed in the trash because the
> battery leaked.  Now to pimp it out time-nuts style:
>
> 1)  Take 1 Tektronix AFG5101 Arbitrary Function Generator.
> 2)  Configure (1) for external clock
> 3)  Take one PTB-500 10 MHz Rubidium Frequency Standard.
> 4)  Divide 10 MHz down to 4 MHz for the AFG5101
> 5) Install (1) (2) (3) and (4) into a TM5006 equipment rack.  Connect to
> UPS power supply.
> 6) Program AFG5101 for bipolar clock drive waveform
> 7) Connect AFG5101 output to clock stepper
> 8) Voila,  cheap and dirty accurate wall clock  ;-)
> ----------------------------------------
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