[time-nuts] Different or defective FE-5680A?

Ed Palmer ed_palmer at sasktel.net
Sat Jun 9 15:37:49 UTC 2012


Do I detect a hint of frustration, Chris?  :-)

I agree with Rex's comments that the most likely reason for this is a 
building block process of combining standard modules to meet a 
customer's requirements.

Some years ago I came across a 10 GB hard drive that came from a family 
of drives that only started at 40 GB.  The factory had apparently 
received an order for 10 GB drives and rather than build them from 
scratch they just took the 40 GB drives that were being manufactured and 
reprogrammed them to be 10 GB.

Ed


On 6/9/2012 1:35 AM, Chris Albertson wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Ed Palmer<ed_palmer at sasktel.net>  wrote:
>
>> ... It is programmable over a wide frequency range (typically<  100 Hz to
>> 15-20 MHz), but you have to bring out the signal yourself,...
>>
>>
> Any idea WHY someone would design something like that?  A programable
> frequency standard where the frequency does not come out of the box.
>
> What next and audio amplifier that only drives an internal dummy load?
>   Light bulb with a metal envelope?
>
> Chris Albertson
> Redondo Beach, California
>




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