[time-nuts] FE-5680A

Robin Kimberley robkimberley at btinternet.com
Tue Dec 13 13:36:35 UTC 2011


Just bought two for US99.98 (UK ~£66) with free shipping. Good deal. Will be
interesting to see how they perform.  Also interesting to know what FEI are
currently quoting for new units. Last time I got a quote from them (5
years+) I was quoted over UK£1K each in single qty.

Rob Kimberley

-----Original Message-----
From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
Behalf Of Peter Gottlieb
Sent: 13 December 2011 02:17
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] FE-5680A

If someone says "or best offer" of course I'm going to make a smaller offer
when multiple items are for sale.  This is what the seller is telling you to
do.

I bought one and finally tonight hooked it up to see if it ran.  After a few
minutes it locked up nice.  For the price, I think I will pick up a couple
more as I have lots of gear for which this would, even uncorrected, be an
outstanding reference.  I will make up small switching circuits (or even
tiny relays, I need projects to use them up) to switch over from the crystal
upon lock and light a LED on the front panels.

Peter


On 12/12/2011 8:42 PM, Chris Albertson wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Bob Camp<lists at rtty.us>  wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> My guess is that the supply is in the thousands...
> We don't know the number of units he has but was can see how many were 
> sold.  ebay provides a link to bidding and sales history.  I looked 
> and I say so far "dozens not thousands".  You can also see to first 
> and last characters of the user names of each buyer and how many units 
> each of them bought.  Seems most people buy 1 unit but quite a few buy 
> two at a time.
>
> I was searching  Google for information on these.  Seems if you are 
> not on this list info is hard to come by.
>
> I'm buying one but I notice his price is "or best offer".  I'll let 
> you all know what he accepts.  I notice in thesales hstory he has 
> accepted several offers and has several more pending.  But eBay does 
> not sell you what the offers were.  No I'm not being cheap.  I'm being 
> curious.
>
> Chris Albertson
> Redondo Beach, California
>
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