[time-nuts] NTP/1-PPS/RS232 question
Bob Bownes
bownes at gmail.com
Sun Sep 8 04:22:25 UTC 2013
100ms is an awful lot of 'inverter gates'!
On Sep 7, 2013, at 23:15, Chris Albertson <albertson.chris at gmail.com> wrote:
> With RS232 the data uses negative logic (low is "1") and the control
> lines use positive logic (high is "1".) That is, a control line is
> "asserted" when it is at logic 0, a positive voltage.
>
> Some one at one time must have thought this made sense.
>
> The good news is that a mistake is easy to detect and fix. If the
> pulse is 100MS long and you have it inverted then your time will be
> off by 100MS. When you are designing the board put in some extra
> inverter gates
>
> On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Mark Sims <holrum at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> I got in those Adafruit GPS boards. They are a very nice little GPS. VERY sensitive. I could get good lock indoors on my (windowless) kitchen floor. The house is 2 story, stucco with wire mesh in the stucco. I could also get lock in a restaurant that had a tin roof. We were far from any windows.
>> The 1PPS signal is normally low and pulses high for 100 milliseconds. The RS-232 adapter board that I built feeds this into an RS-232 transmitter chip (MAX3232), so on the interface connector CD will be at +V and pulse down to -V. Is this what stock NTP likes?
>> Also, I laid out the adapter board so it an accommodate a Trimble Resolution T or a Crius CN06 receiver. The Crius receiver uses a U-Blox NEO-6M receiver. They can be had for around $22 at HobbyKing. They seem to perform even better than the AdaFruit module. It looks like you will need to bodge a wire onto the TIMEPULSE pin to use it for 1PPS.
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