[time-nuts] "Audio" DAC for GPSDO?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <1401742940.44103.YahooMailNeo at web142705.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>, Bob Stewart writ
es:

>Could someone explain to me how such an audio DAC differs from a non
>-audio DAC and why it's not suitable for this application?=A0 Is this just 
>a disclaimer from microchip to avoid liability or is there some practical
>reason to go with a traditional DAC?

A lot of them have DC protections, so you can't leave them at a particular
input value for very long before they go into safety mode and clamp the
output to zero.

Your speakers love them for this, your OCXO not so much.


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