[time-nuts] Phase noise measurement (was - no subject)

[Steve Rooke]

On 22 August 2010 00:07, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> In message <4a8e.56751f36.39a11aa2 at aol.com>, EWKehren at aol.com writes:
>
>>On all phase noise measurements I use AGM batteries.
>
> Be aware that chemical batteries can be incredibly noisy, in particular
> wet or semi-wet types.

Dilithium Crystals are the only way to go on this. Just bolt a good
sized one in the Warp drive and feed the cross-phase out though the
interplanator and you get some really quiet power. Just be careful not
to short it out or we will all have a bit of you come to visit us :)

Steve

> It is not periodic noise, so for PN measurements with sensible
> averaging periods it probably does not matter.
>
> Poul-Henning
>
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