I'm sorry, which thread are you referring to?

I have tried implementing the changes in the thread I originally linked to
and it doesn't seem to have made any difference.

Best,
Thomas

On Feb 25, 2018 4:52 AM, "Steven Knudsen" <ee.k...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This is a known problem with the B20xmini. Have a look at this thread and
> then follow it up.
>
> You are right, you are seeing caps charge and discharge, basically.
>
> Since I made the changes myself on my units, I am not sure where things
> were left with Ettus and their policy for fixing the problem. But I can say
> that once you make the changes, the transients are gone and the minis work
> really well.
>
> regards,
>
> steven
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 3:25 PM, Thomas Teisberg via USRP-users <
> usrp-users@lists.ettus.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm working on a radar project that requires sending a series of short
>> pulses. Looking at the pulses on a scope, I'm seeing large voltage spikes
>> at the beginning and the end of each transmission.
>>
>> As shown in the attached screenshot, before the transmission starts,
>> there is a 90 mV spike lasting about 10 us. After the transmission, there's
>> a -25 mV spike lasting about 20 us.
>>
>> The setup for this is simply a USRP B205mini-i connected to a 50 ohm
>> input on a scope through a 30 dB attenuator. The signal is at 435 MHz with
>> the scope sampling at 20 Gsps.
>>
>> Our initial thought was that we must be seeing some effects of some of
>> the RF frontend components turning on and off. I found this previous
>> mailing list post and tried the suggested fix in b200_impl.cpp but nothing
>> changed:
>>
>> http://lists.ettus.com/pipermail/usrp-users_lists.ettus.com/
>> 2015-January/012269.html
>>
>> Any ideas why we might be seeing these spikes or what we could do about
>> it? Does the fix suggested in the above mailing list post still apply to
>> the current codebase?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Thomas
>>
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>
>
> --
> K. Steven Knudsen, Ph.D., P.Eng.
>
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