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The only machine I have that will use the ref is my BVH, all of my 3/4 decks lock to the house BB.
I also have two Microtime T100's and have never needed to use the V-pulse ref, they're older than many of our videokarma members but have never complained about the source. What I did do was feed the Nova 700 & 800 clean comp from my BVH internal TBC running a B&T tape and they would not pass chroma, the burst is there and they lock to the bouse BB, I also ran the V-pulse and got no chroma. Just to verify I then moved the T100 in place and connected everything the same and it passed chroma even without the V-pulse, I then moved to the tape demod (before internal TBC) and the T100 corrected just as it should. From there I moved to my ancient Sony VO-2860A and ran one of my old-old-old MTV captures from 1985 and got the same results. Everyone locked to the house BB the Microtime T100 was spot on but the Nova boxes only corrected the timing jitter. My monitors are Sony PVM-8044Q and a 1970 vintage Magnavox Astro sonic combo which has never been very forgiving. Both were rock solid with both the Nova and T100 except for the lack of chroma. When I flip the #6 dip I do get a phase shift in the output burst so I'm thinking there might be an internal issue with the Nova, considering the early 90's vintage they might have sour caps on the boards.
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