[time-nuts] GPSDO recovery from holdover

Said Jackson saidjack at aol.com
Sat Dec 1 02:47:42 UTC 2012


Hal,

New JLT GPSDOs step back in 10 Steps over 10 seconds if more than 250ns off, then adjust the last ns slowly.

If within 250ns, they just slowly slew back.

Bye,
Said

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On Nov 30, 2012, at 18:10, Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:

> 
> Does anybody know what happens in a TBolt or Z3801?  (or any other boxes?)
> 
> 
> Suppose your system goes into holdover for long enough to be interesting.  
> Suppose for discussion that the clock drifts so that the PPS if off by a 
> mircosecond.
> 
> I can see two ways to recover.  One is to jump the 10 MHz clock by 10 cycles. 
> The other is to adjust the frequency so that the PPS slews back to on-time.
> 
> The first approach gives you a second with the wrong number of cycles.  The 
> second approach has your clock frequency off for a while with a trade off 
> between how far off and how long it's off.
> 
> Are there any other approaches?
> 
> 
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