[time-nuts] crystal oscillators & TPLL

Bob Camp lists at rtty.us
Sat Jun 26 13:29:25 UTC 2010


Hi

Now, that's one I can heartily agree with. 

Bob


On Jun 26, 2010, at 9:08 AM, Steve Rooke wrote:

> Warren, advice from a friend, stop doing this please.
> 
> Everyone else, please stop feeding the troll.
> 
> Steve
> 
> On 26 June 2010 08:32, WarrenS <warrensjmail-one at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Charles Posted a bunch of stuff (below),
>> 
>> Most think I should just ignore him, but I can not help myself,
>> he has after all made this one just too easy and silly not to respond to.
>> 
>> I hope Charles did not consider this to be just another "good example" of
>> all the 'constructive helpful criticism' I've received.
>> 
>>> His childish tantrums, insults, and outlandish claims are his and his
>>> alone.
>> 
>> Funny, I have to wonder if maybe Charles was just reading and referring to
>> his own posting.
>> Charles's past and latest posting does show that he has several problems,
>> both technical as well as emotionally.
>> Don't we all?, It is just that most have the good sense and taste not to
>> make them so public.
>> Sounds to me that he is someone that does need a lot of help, but certainly
>> not the kind of help I can give.
>> 
>> Some of the more ironic things, I find in the latest 'attack facts' is his
>> statement: [paraphrased]
>> 
>>> [Warren does not understand that all the name calling and insults and
>>> attacks have been fair attempts by professional engineers to understand
>>> Warren's TPLL implementation]
>>> so that they can TRY to ascertain to what degree the TPLL is likely to
>>> provide useful results over a broader range of conditions than those that
>>> have been publicly demonstrated.
>> 
>> 1) why would a professional engineer have to resort to attacks in a fair
>> attempt to understand something so simple or so old and basic?
>> 
>> 2) why would the professional engineers need to have more information, when
>> everything that is needed is already on John's site?
>> especially if AS CLAMED over and over, they are asking to get this
>> information from someone that does not even know what he is doing.
>> 
>> 3) Just how much broader range do they want or need than has already been
>> publicly demonstrated, that it works good enough from near DC to 100Hz for
>> every device and noise type it has been tested WITH NO exceptions (limited
>> only by the controlled OCXO).
>> 
>> There are some things that I do not Understand, Such as:
>> 
>> I do not understand, Nor do I really care, what part of this Charles does
>> not understand.
>> I will not let his or others shortcoming and non-understandings be MY
>> problem
>> 
>> Also posted:
>>> 
>>> I know [some] have said more than once that we should just ignore "the
>>> femtosecond thing," but why?
>>> (Not that anything turns on this one claim anyway)
>> 
>> Just because of Charles's and others own non-understandings and limitations,
>> why one would then feel it is MY reasonability to try and educate someone
>> like that is way beyond my understanding.
>> but
>> 
>> I'll try again to comment on the femto second thing, since some seem to be
>> hung up on that part most of all.
>> In order to work good (which no one seems to be denying any more), the TPLL
>> method has to hold the two Oscillator's phase differences real, real close
>> OVER the Bandwidth of interest.
>> Anyone that can understand what limits a noise floor plot, can see that the
>> phase differences are being held to about 10 fs at 100 Hz, from the data
>> posted on John's site.
>> 
>> Anyone that can do simple math and has a vary basic understanding of the
>> TPLLs could calculate for their self with the BW information given in John's
>> site,
>> that the TPLL is "trying" to hold the phase difference over the Bandwidth of
>> interest from DC to 1 KHz  down to single digit Femtoseconds varation for
>> low noise oscillators.
>> If you do not have a favorite Phase detector to use, can use the
>> mini-Circuits SYPD-1 for you calculations,  (or any other),
>> 
>> A little less obvious but still very easy to calculate with simple math (OK,
>> just a little harder than 2+2, but not by too much),
>> is that the noise floor limit of a good low noise AMP can give about 1 fs of
>> phase differences between the two Oscillators OVER the Bandwidth of
>> importance.
>> If you do not have a favorite low noise op amp to use, one can use the op-27
>> for their calculations,  (or many others),
>> 
>> If Charles or anyone would like to do and post the SIMPLE math to show that
>> ANY of femtosecond stuff above is not true,
>> and their answer turns out to be different than mine, I'd be more than
>> willing to show what they did wrong or different than me.
>> 
>> The fact that Charles and others seem to be confusing 10 MHz Phase jitter
>> with 100 Hz and below bandwidth limited Phase differences do
>> show they have a few major things missing  in their  understanding about
>> what ADEV is and how it is a frequency stability value over a limited time
>> and Bandwidth called tau.
>> 
>> Also if anyone still thinks they can make a reasonable data set file that
>> shows where the TPLL will mess up, Go for it.
>> I'm still willing to try and prove to all that will NOT EVER be the case.
>> OR is it still OK for some expert to make an unsubstantiated and false clam
>> that would be easy to prove wrong given a chance,
>> If they just reference some paper that has meaningless information because
>> it does not apply to this method.
>> 
>> ws
>> *********************
>> *********************
>> [time-nuts] crystal oscillators & TPLL
>> Charles P. Steinmetz charles_steinmetz at lavabit.com
>> Fri Jun 25 07:05:59 UTC 2010
>> 
>> Steve wrote:
>> 
>>> I agree with what you say and really wish we could move forward
>>> with this. The only thing that is preventing this happening is the
>>> expected reaction that will occur when/if that information is ever
>>> released. Unfortunately the concept of constructive criticism is an
>>> anathema to some members of this list and this is the blockage.
>> 
>> I must disagree.  I suppose it's good for Warren to have an
>> apologist, but you are simply not getting the facts right.  Warren
>> seems to be unable to deal with constructive criticism.
>> 
>> What you characterize as attacks by "arrogant naysayers" (and as
>> professional engineers looking down on amateur engineers) has, to my
>> reading, been a fair attempt by other listmembers to understand
>> Warren's TPLL implementation so that they can try to ascertain to
>> what degree it is likely to provide useful results over a broader
>> range of conditions than those that have been publicly
>> demonstrated.  As we have asked for more details so we can try to do
>> this, Warren has responded in every case -- every case -- with vague
>> allusions to details of his implementation and testing he has done,
>> childish accusations that nobody understands anything and we all must
>> think he can't add two and two, followed by more and more outlandish
>> claims about what his device does (for just one example, "the simple
>> analog TPLL method holds the Phase difference [between the reference
>> and test oscillators] to zero (with-in 1 femtosecond)" -- Wed, 9 Jun
>> 2010 21:05:57 -0700), which (i) cannot be true and (ii) appear to
>> demonstrate that Warren not only has not tested at least some of the
>> things that he is claiming, but seems not to understand much of the
>> basic subject matter.  Warren has had more than ample opportunity to
>> answer any criticism by saying calmly that he did "a" (with a decent
>> explanation of what "a" is) and got "x" result, and similarly with
>> "b" and "y," "c" and "z," etc., but he has not once done so.  One
>> might reasonably conclude after all of the smokescreens and refusals
>> that he has not, in fact, done any of the things to which he has
>> vaguely alluded.
>> 
>> I know you have said more than once that we should just ignore "the
>> femtosecond thing," but why?  (Not that anything turns on this one
>> claim anyway -- there are plenty of others like it.)  You yourself
>> called it into question (Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:05:26 +1200).  It is a
>> claim Warren made, and very specifically -- not that a femtosecond is
>> the resolution of the test method stated in units of time (which
>> others have advanced to try to explain what he meant), but that his
>> PLL locks two 10 MHz oscillators to within one femtosecond of each
>> other and that he has verified this in several ways.  If Warren
>> claims this thing (and numerous others that can easily be found in
>> the voluminous record) that must be mistaken (or worse), what else
>> that he has claimed can we trust?  When you read the posts and make
>> the inferences that Warren's statements invite (in many cases,
>> seemingly inescapably), it appears that the only trustworthy
>> information we have about the operation of Warren's TPLL is what John
>> published -- which indicates that the method has promise -- perhaps
>> even considerable promise -- but is far from the proof Warren seems
>> to think it is that his device fulfills all of his claims or has been
>> characterized to the point that others can predict under what
>> conditions they can rely on it.
>> 
>> So, please, don't make Warren out as the poor, well-meaning basement
>> inventor being bashed by the "professionals."  His childish tantrums,
>> insults, and outlandish claims are his and his alone.  Even if we
>> assume for the sake of argument that he was hard done by (which I do
>> not believe is true), that would not excuse his responses.  It would
>> have been one thing to say, "Hey, I put this together and it seems to
>> work pretty well" and leave it at that, but that is not what Warren did.
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> Charles
>> 
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