[time-nuts] HP E1938A Oscillator
Graham / KE9H
timenut at austin.rr.com
Fri Jul 5 13:05:18 UTC 2013
On 7/5/2013 12:23 AM, Perry Sandeen wrote:
>
> List,
>
> I was looking on Ebay for some HP E1938A
> oscillators
>
> What I found listed were:
>
> HP E1938A 10 MHz Quartz Oscillator with EFC on PC
> board. $100 Fluke.l
>
> HP E1938-60201 Ovenized Crystal Oscillator (on a PC board) $100 Tomy Chou
>
> HP E1938A Ovenized Crystal Oscillator W/O a PC board for $50 and free shipping from 2010bluebook.
> My question is thus: What does the PC board do? All I need is a HP EFC oscillator that would
> be better that my HP 10811-60111’s.
>
> Do I need to worry that the E1938A’s without the
> board maybe of lessor quality than the others?
>
> Fluke.l says his units are good but not stellar. The other venders say they have tested the
> units and guarantee them to be good. If
> so, would it get better with aging?
>
> So what does the collective wisdom/experience of
> the group think? TIA
>
> Regards,
>
> Perrier
>
>
The E1938A is a microprocessor controlled and managed oscillator.
Probably with a lot
of control/correction/compensation data stored on the processor board.
Does anyone have any interface (I/O) definitions for the stainless steel
oscillator module?
For the processor control board?
Instructions on how to calibrate and compensate it?
My impression is that it is a lot easier for an experimenter to manage
an HP10811 oscillator
where you just put power on it and a signal comes out.
Thanks,
--- Graham / KE9H
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