[time-nuts] Sw for pm6680B
Magnus Danielson
magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org
Mon Apr 30 15:55:38 UTC 2012
Hi Pierre-Francois,
On 04/30/2012 04:57 PM, GandalfG8 at aol.com wrote:
> Hi Pierre-Francois
>
> Assuming yours is the Ebay item I think it is, I was wondering who bought
> that and see there's another due to finish in a couple of hours or so:-)
>
> The Fluke PM6680B is a rebadged Pendulum CNT-80, Pendulum now being part of
> Spectracom.
> Both Fluke and Tektronix, and perhaps others, have offered rebadged
> Pendulum counters and TimeView too was originally a Pendulum product.
Pendulum came out of Philips Industrier AB in Järfälla, which was the
remaining part of that development firm that got part of Philips/Fluke.
Fluke actually maintained the good old Philips Measurement (PM) IDs, so
saying they where rebadged is a bit of a missnomer.
It is indeed the same counter. The CNT-90 and CNT-91 exists in Tektronix
rebadged form as 3000 and 3100 (forgot the prefix). Good stuff.
> Whilst time limited trial versions of TimeView have been widely available I
> don't know if these are supplier specific, ie whether or not the Tektronix
> version I have will work with other rebadged units or even with the
> Pendulum originals.
> Either way, each supplier seems to offer it's own branded version of
> TimeView and these have always been very expensive, I've never seen it available
> second hand but suspect registration might not be transferable anyway.
While TimeView is a separate product and quite nice, it is becoming more
and more obsolete as TimeLab starts to support a wider range of counters
(again).
> As Bjorn has pointed out, John Miles' TimeLab supports the PM6680B and that
> would certainly seem to be your best option.
Indeed try that first. TimeLab seems to work very nicely with the PM6681
that Björn has.
I haven't tried the latest and greatest of TimeView, so I will try it.
Would be nice to know how them match up to each other.
Cheers,
Magnus
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