[time-nuts] Why are 1PPS signals so skinny?

Rick Karlquist richard at karlquist.com
Tue May 15 23:43:50 UTC 2012


SAIDJACK at aol.com wrote:
> Yes, but the point is to not use end-termination for all the reasons
> mentioned by others in this thread, such as massive spike in power
> consumption
> once per second, over-voltage spikes if the termination is faulty or

FWIW, the E1938A oscillator control board had a "happy light" LED
that flashed 1 time per second, and sure enough this corrupted the
power supply and affected some applications.  We added a command
to turn it off.

Rick Karlquist N6RK





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