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A project log for 10MHz Rubidium Standard

I have a working Rb 10 MHz oscillator, so why not give it a nice home?

tomcircuittomcircuit 06/28/2015 at 20:360 Comments

Well, actually, this has been buttoned up for a while, but life (and sadly also death) intervened in the past two months. I've been enjoying a nice stable 10 MHz reference source for my experiments. I used it recently to calibrate OCXO replacement project for my HP 5328 frequency counter. The last bits I finished up this weekend were to fix some software bugs - the most annoying was the too short a waiting time to allow a cold LPRO-101 to achieve warmup. I also added the LPRO case temperature sensor and worked out the ADC scaling to report in degrees C.

I still have the runt pulses in the comb generator to work out, but I'll probably debug that using one a spare PCB and, once I find out what the issue is, apply the fixes to the completed unit. So, not quite "complete" yet, but really close enough for the summertime!

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