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Jeffrey Wack - posted 15:44, Wednesday 19 March 2025 - last comment - 00:18, Thursday 20 March 2025(12181)
cymac clock PCB

We have one working clock circuit for a cymac main chassis. We have two more PCBs which are both slightly incomplete.

Today I went to Downs and Todd flashed our 3 arduino nanos with the software outlined in LIGO-E2300449. The steps look simple enough, but since Todd had already done this for his Arduinos it was as simple as connecting to his computer and hitting upload.

I then returned to bridge where I tested one of our clock circuits. I learned that the ATX power supply only outputs a voltage if the large ATX connector is plugged in, hence the PCIe backplane resting on the anti-static bag in the photo.

The one complete clock PCB that we have works. We have two more PCBs from Todd, but they are each missing a component or two. One is missing two buffers (center and marked by orange) and the other is missing an RF relay (look top, K1)  Perhaps I will work with Todd to complete them.

It is also possible that we don't need the relay, which appears from the schematic to be related to the external input.

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Jeffrey Wack - 00:18, Thursday 20 March 2025 (12185)

The clock circuit which is missing an RF switch (component K1) produces three 65kHz outputs above 5 volts. The external clock input has not been tested.

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