Has anyone got experience of using these ?? MB506 Module <https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255079972208> I need some sort of module to be able to cover up to 1Ghz with my GPSDO referenced 100Mhz counter. The minimum division factor is 64 which is a bit higher than I want 16 (or 10) would be better. Perhaps someone can suggest an alternative prebuilt module ?? Regards, Dave

I considered dividers like this 35 years ago when I was the project manager for the HP 5334B counter. There are all kinds of problems trying to apply dynamic dividers like this to a frequency counter. I don't know anything specific about the module you are asking about, but I wouldn't expect that it would be anything great, based on the MB506. How well it works depends on how clean the signal is that you are feeding into it. You would have the buy it and try it for your application and see if it had acceptable error (don't expect zero error, just low enough for your requirements). And if it doesn't work out, you just wasted your money. Rick N6RK On 5/8/2023 3:56 PM, Dave via time-nuts wrote: > > Has anyone got experience of using these ?? > > MB506 Module <https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255079972208> > > I need some sort of module to be able to cover up to 1Ghz with my GPSDO > referenced 100Mhz counter. > > The minimum division factor is 64 which is a bit higher than I want 16 > (or 10) would be better. Perhaps someone > can suggest an alternative prebuilt module ?? > > Regards, > Dave > > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com > To unsubscribe send an email to time-nuts-leave@lists.febo.com >

I home-built a prescaler for a Philips counter using one of these. It worked OK for me as a fairly undemanding user but had a tendency to self-oscillate. You would probably want to gate it with some sort of input signal sensing. On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 3:30 AM Richard (Rick) Karlquist via time-nuts < time-nuts@lists.febo.com> wrote: > I considered dividers like this 35 years ago when I was the project > manager for the HP 5334B counter. There are all kinds of problems > trying to apply dynamic dividers like this to a frequency counter. > I don't know anything specific about the module you are asking > about, but I wouldn't expect that it would be anything great, > based on the MB506. How well it works depends on how clean > the signal is that you are feeding into it. You would have > the buy it and try it for your application and see if it had > acceptable error (don't expect zero error, just low enough > for your requirements). And if it doesn't work out, you > just wasted your money. > > Rick N6RK > > On 5/8/2023 3:56 PM, Dave via time-nuts wrote: > > > > Has anyone got experience of using these ?? > > > > MB506 Module <https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255079972208> > > > > I need some sort of module to be able to cover up to 1Ghz with my GPSDO > > referenced 100Mhz counter. > > > > The minimum division factor is 64 which is a bit higher than I want 16 > > (or 10) would be better. Perhaps someone > > can suggest an alternative prebuilt module ?? > > > > Regards, > > Dave > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com > > To unsubscribe send an email to time-nuts-leave@lists.febo.com > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com > To unsubscribe send an email to time-nuts-leave@lists.febo.com >