[time-nuts] Short Terms Stablity of the Trimble Mini-T
SAIDJACK at aol.com
SAIDJACK at aol.com
Wed Nov 7 19:51:23 EST 2007
In a message dated 11/7/2007 13:29:45 Pacific Standard Time,
rmoncur at bigpond.net.au writes:
>This equates to a short term stability of around 1 part in 10^9 compared to
>the 1 part in 10^10 I was expecting from the Allan Deviation specs. There
>has been no improvement after running the Min-T for more than a week.
>I admit to not fully understanding the relationship between Allan Deviation
>and short term frequency stability. So I would be grateful for advice as to
>whether there is a simple relationship?
>Now I don't know if the stability issue is the Mini-T or the HP Z3801A but
>the clue is that if I remove the antenna from the Mini-T the short-term
>stability improves by a factor of 10, so I am reasonably confident that the
>problem is with the Mini-T. Does anyone have experience with the Mini-T and
>what sort of short-term stability one should expect?
Hi Rex,
welcome to the group!
Please excuse my shameless marketing hat that I am putting on now, but in
recent months we have had many of our customers complain in a vitriolic manner
about the Mini-T to us for exactly the same reason.
They switched over to our Fury GPSDO because the Mini-T just didn't work for
them.
_http://www.jackson-labs.com/products_fury.html_
(http://www.jackson-labs.com/products_fury.html)
It would be interesting to find out from other folks what kind of experience
they had with the Mini-T. From what I was told, I am not surprised that you
are only getting parts in E-09 stability out of that unit.
Ok, let's see if we can help you now :)
One thing you may want to try is thermally isolating the Mini-T from it's
environment by running it in a metal enclosure etc (make sure it won't overheat
though).
Another thing you may want to try is to compare the indicated position of
the Mini-T to the Z3801A position, maybe you have a survey problem?
bye,
Said
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