[time-nuts] Actual life time of a Datum LPRO-101?

[Neville Michie]

Hi,
they finish their life when the lamp fades out.
When you stoke it up there is a lamp monitoring voltage that
is about 10 volts when new but drops below 4 volts at end of life.
Otherwise, if it will lock on it is probably a good unit. New users
tend not to understand that the frequency trim only covers a range
of a few millihertz, which is quite enough to set them right.
I have seen comments like" it does not respond to the frequency trim..."
by users that are used to OCXO standards.
The manual is around.
Cheers, Neville Michie


On 30/03/2009, at 8:41 PM, Ulf Kylenfall wrote:

>
> All,
>
> Does anyone have any experience with the Datum/Efratom LPRO-101
> Rubidium standard? There are large amounts of these on e-bay.
>
> The datasheet specifies life time to "at least" 10 years
> and the one that I found on a flea market is dated 1999.
>
> I assume that they are replaced as a planned maintenance
> and the unit that I found was said to be in good health.
>
> Comments invited
>
> Ulf Kylenfall
> SM6GXV
>
>
>
>
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