[time-nuts] 5061 Cs frequency shift with long time constant?

John Ackermann N8UR jra at febo.com
Tue Apr 5 19:41:37 EDT 2005


Thanks, Brian.  That's very helpful.  I looked at the schematic and the 
cap they are using for LTC is 8uF that's simply put between the input 
and the output of the op amp module.

I guess the question is whether the leakage causes any stability 
problems, or just a constant offset.  Time for some experiments...

John
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wa1zms at att.net wrote:

>John-
>
>I have seen the same effect on my HP-5060A.  I had attribute it to
>leakage in the loop filter capacitor.
>
>Should you find that you need to replace that cap in your standard,
>you might want to try some of the very low leakage current caps from
>WIMA in Germany.  If you're in a pinch I have a couple 1uF WIMA caps
>that I could send you.
>
>-Brian, WA1ZMS
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>Behalf Of John Ackermann N8UR
>Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 9:53 AM
>To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
>Subject: [time-nuts] 5061 Cs frequency shift with long time constant?
>
>
>This is very odd (I seem to be collecting these sorts of problems) and I 
>wonder if anyone else has seen something similar.
>
>I got my 5061A trimmed to the point where a 5 day run against GPS showed 
>an offset of less than 1x10e-13.  I then switched the unit into the long 
>time constant mode and now see that the offset (over 36 hours) is 
>-1.7x10e-12.  Nothing else in the setup has changed.
>
>It's hard for me to see how simply changing the loop time constant would 
>change the frequency of the standard, especially by this much, but 
>stranger things have happened.
>
>Has anyone else experienced a shift like this when switching the time 
>constant?
>
>Thanks,
>
>John
>
>PS -- I was able to partially, but not completely, reproduce the phase 
>shift that I wrote about a couple of weeks ago by jiggling the 1 PPS 
>cable to the counter.  Replacing that cable seems to have resolved that 
>problem.
>
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