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A project log for Hacking a FE-5680B rubidium reference clock

Sold as "1pps only", this affordable eBay find is a playground for reverse-engineering, with a few useful laboratory applications.

yann-guidon-ygdesYann Guidon / YGDES 05/05/2016 at 21:390 Comments

The block fried.

I've left it alone after the lock, to write the previous log and then returned to the workshop where a smell of burned resistor worried me. The current was bumped to 2.6A, 2A more than normal.

Then, this happened.

http://hackaday.com/2016/05/04/a-rubidium-reference-for-discrete-component-clocks/

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