[time-nuts] Disciplining Rubidium
SAIDJACK at aol.com
SAIDJACK at aol.com
Thu Apr 24 20:09:39 EDT 2008
Hi Antonio, Tom,
recently I had to unplug my PRS10 Rb from GPS for about 3 days. It drifted a
couple 100ns in that time frame.
When I plugged the GPS 1PPS back in, I saw a significant frequency error of
a couple of parts to the E-10 while the PRS10 was shifting the 1PPS back onto
UTC.
Pretty bad for a Rubidium I thought.
For such a large phase error I would have expected the PRS10 to just reset
the 1PPS rather than drift it.
I may have to adjust the loop time constants to be more than 7 hours.
To address your question: I would expect the PRS10 to behave in a similar
manner when turning it upside down. It would probably take some minutes or
longer to re-lock the OCXO to Rb, then correct the OCXO to 1PPS phase error that
acrued.
Typical OCXO errors for a turn-over test are parts in E-09, that causes a
very significant immediate phase drift.
Can't try it in my setup unfortunately.
bye,
Said
In a message dated 4/24/2008 15:28:55 Pacific Daylight Time,
iovane at inwind.it writes:
Why the XO in a GPS-Rb-XO version should not bear this problem?
I understand that Rb itself shouldn't, but what about the controlled XO?
(I have an interest in orientation sensitivity of measuring instruments).
Thanks,
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