[time-nuts] Effect of EFC noise on phase noise
Dr. Ulrich Rohde
ka2weu at aol.com
Mon Aug 1 21:56:50 UTC 2016
With my filter , I had good success and 5 K is not too high , Ulrich
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> On Aug 1, 2016, at 11:46 AM, Bob Camp <kb8tq at n1k.org> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> ….. until you discover that you picked the *wrong* capacitor manufacturer and you have
> more noise from leakage in the cap than you did to start out with :) In general “big C and
> small R” is the better solution than “big R and small C”.
>
> The pesky part is that with electrolytic caps, the whole “noise current” thing changes as
> the voltage moves around. You go to measure things and by the time the gear is set up,
> the noise has dropped. Turn it all off, come back the next day and it’s noisy again.
>
> An even more subtle issue can be capacitor temperature coefficient on really long Tau filters. If C
> changes (due to temperature fluxuations) faster than the settling time of the filter, you get noise. Charge
> is the same so delta C gives delta V.
>
> I *wish* I could tell you that was all purely theoretical. Unfortunately it’s based on empirical data
> collected in the “how could I be so stupid” fashion.
>
> Bob
>
>> On Aug 1, 2016, at 11:21 AM, KA2WEU--- via time-nuts <time-nuts at febo.com> wrote:
>>
>> A good filter in the cable is highly recommended, 5 KOhm & 1000 uF cleans
>> many things
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 8/1/2016 11:12:51 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>> kb8tq at n1k.org writes:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> It’s just very standard FM modulation math. The only gotcha is the
>> (often unknown) bandwidth of the EFC port. Even on a precision
>> OCXO, it might be <10 Hz, it might be over a KHz …. The trap many
>> fall into is the “small angle” restriction. You can get into modulation
>> indexes that will get the second and third order terms contributing.
>> It’s more common to see on vibration, but it can happen on a noisy
>> EFC.
>>
>> Bob
>>
>>
>>> On Aug 1, 2016, at 9:46 AM, Attila Kinali <attila at kinali.ch> wrote:
>>>
>>> Moin,
>>>
>>> I need some formulas that relate EFC noise to the (added) phase noise of
>>> an OCXO. It shouldn't be too difficult to come up with something. But
>>> before I make some stupid mistakes, i wanted to ask whether someone
>>> has already done this or has any references to papers? My google-foo
>>> was not strong enough to find something.
>>>
>>> Attila Kinali
>>>
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