[time-nuts] webcam app to watch for and time stamp changes

Jim Lux jimlux at earthlink.net
Sun Mar 3 18:44:54 UTC 2013


On 3/3/13 10:09 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
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> In message <51336234.3090105 at earthlink.net>, Jim Lux writes:
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>>> Most LCD and LED clocks have a shielding metal-coating on the front
>>> glass, exactly to eliminate all EMI/EMC issues.
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>> Yes, but perhaps there's enough leakage to make this work.
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> Think for a moment about how little power the electronics consume
> in the first place, then do the math.
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> You'll need a very (radio-)quiet place to measure in...
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Not so oddly, I happen to have such places available, since we develop 
sensitive radio receivers and instruments for deep space.  I don't know 
how well shielded from a magnetic field standpoint our usual screen 
rooms are (probably not very.. they're all designed for 2GHz and up), 
but it's easy to try.

I also know someone who has a set of nested mu metal cans for this kind 
of thing that I might be able to borrow.

We used them to calibrate little hockey puck shaped spinning 
magnetometer subsatellites for a sounding rocket experiment:

http://trs-new.jpl.nasa.gov/dspace/bitstream/2014/17005/1/99-0421.pdf
http://trs-new.jpl.nasa.gov/dspace/bitstream/2014/17761/1/99-1204.pdf



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