[time-nuts] Opera coordinator has resigned

[Hal Murray]

jfor at quikus.com said:
> It was happenstance that the OPERA connector was mated enough to work, but
> not enough to work properly. 

A while ago, I was thinking that half the problem was a design error.  But 
then I couldn't figure out how to do it right.  Maybe monitoring the pulse 
height would have caught this error.  Maybe a different encoding scheme would 
be easier to monitor.

I've worked with fibers for communications, but that was many years ago.  The 
receivers have AGCs.  If you monitor the AGC control voltage you should be 
able to catch things like loose connections.  I don't think we ever did that. 
 We did monitor the error rate.  It was always 0.

But that adds another level of complexity.  Checking/monitoring is good.  
Complexity is evil.  How do you decide?


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