I designed and fabricated a Z3817A interface board.
This will quite easily bring these boxes to life -- 1 PPS in will give you
two disciplined 10 MHz outputs that are isolated. SCPI too..
Is working fine business.
[image: PXL_20230611_185520291.jpg]
[image: PXL_20230612_025628709.jpg]
Links:
github: <<
https://github.com/charlieh0tel/ee_stuff/tree/main/projects/z3817a_breakout
I regret not dropping a PICDIV on the board, as there is no 1PPS out on
the Z3817A.
I'm still trying to feed the Z3817A something it will recognize as a GPS
receiver. I'm convinved it wants Oncore binary. My Synergy M12M
starter kit seemed like it could have worked, but it is not speaking
freely which is no good for the Z3817A (there's is no TX from it to the
GPS).
73 de AI6KG
-ch
I think I broke the layout link:
<<
https://kicanvas.org/?github=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fcharlieh0tel%2Fee_stuff%2Fblob%2Fmain%2Fprojects%2Fz3817a_breakout%2Fz3817a_breakout.kicad_pcb
>>
On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 7:59 PM Christopher Hoover <ch@murgatroid.com>
wrote:
>
> I designed and fabricated a Z3817A interface board.
>
> This will quite easily bring these boxes to life -- 1 PPS in will give you
> two disciplined 10 MHz outputs that are isolated. SCPI too..
>
> Is working fine business.
>
> [image: PXL_20230611_185520291.jpg]
> [image: PXL_20230612_025628709.jpg]
>
> Links:
>
> github: <<
> https://github.com/charlieh0tel/ee_stuff/tree/main/projects/z3817a_breakout
> >>
>
> schematic: <<
> https://kicanvas.org/?github=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fcharlieh0tel%2Fee_stuff%2Fblob%2Fmain%2Fprojects%2Fz3817a_breakout%2Fz3817a_breakout.kicad_sch
> >>
>
> layout: <<
> https://kicanvas.org/github=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fcharlieh0tel%2Fee_stuff%2Fblob%2Fmain%2Fprojects%2Fz3817a_breakout%2Fz3817a_breakout.kicad_pcb
> >>
>
> I regret not dropping a PICDIV on the board, as there is no 1PPS out on
> the Z3817A.
>
> I'm still trying to feed the Z3817A something it will recognize as a GPS
> receiver. I'm convinved it wants Oncore binary. My Synergy M12M
> starter kit seemed like it could have worked, but it is not speaking
> freely which is no good for the Z3817A (there's is no TX from it to the
> GPS).
>
> 73 de AI6KG
> -ch
>
>
>