[time-nuts] Subject: Re: Oscilloquartz 3210 Cesium Standard

[paul swed]

Chris
Sorry its not working. Very nice looking unit though.
I did the Frankenstein thing on my 5060/5061.
So if its bad there is no harm in seriously digging in. After all its just
physics.
On Frankenstein it took me an honest 6 months and the support of the
time-nuts you already have. Learned a ton in the process and the monster
lives.
I was lucky at the same time I came across a HP pico-amp meter and could
read the tube current directly and it was pitiful.
Good luck
Paul
WB8TSL


On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 6:10 PM, John Miles <john at miles.io> wrote:

> Looks like a really nice piece of hardware, well worth fixing up.  You
> might check the hot-wire ionizer filament on the Cs tube for continuity, as
> a failure there may not show up in a meter indication.
>
> Apart from that, the detailed troubleshooting steps in the contemporary HP
> Cs service manuals (5061A/5061B generation) would be very much applicable
> to this one.  The block diagram will be similar.  You could try measuring
> the beam current and SNR manually if all else fails; one approach that I
> used is detailed at http://www.ke5fx.com/cs.htm .
>
> -- john, KE5FX
> Miles Design LLC
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On Behalf Of Chris
> > Sent: Friday, August 29, 2014 2:05 PM
> > To: time-nuts at febo.com
> > Subject: [time-nuts] Subject: Re: Oscilloquartz 3210 Cesium Standard
> >
> > So what am I missing ?. Did fill in the enquiry form at the
> > Oscilloquartz web site a few days ago, but no reply. Should I try again,
> > or are are there some special runes you need to recite before they will
> > talk to you ? :-). Would be quite happy to pay a reasonable fee for a
> > copy of the manual, paper or pdf...
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Chris
>
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