Re: [ntp:questions] GPS with PPS without any soldering requirements?

2008-02-28 Thread Ulrich Windl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Folkert van Heusden) writes: > Hi, > > Are there any cheap GPS receivers which emit a PPS signal and can be > used directly without any soldering? E.g. usb or rs232. Except from cheap, a Meinberg LANTIME might solve your problem (http://www.meinberg.de). I'm afraid you cannot h

Re: [ntp:questions] GPS with PPS without any soldering requirements?

2008-02-12 Thread Unruh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Folkert, >Take a look at http://www.cnssys.com/cnsclock/CNSClockII.html. Of course that is $1400 rather than $60. For that $1300 you could probably hire a neighborhood kid to do the soldering for you. >Paul ___ questions m

Re: [ntp:questions] GPS with PPS without any soldering requirements?

2008-02-12 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2008-02-12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Take a look at http://www.cnssys.com/cnsclock/CNSClockII.html. Is it really worth spending $1400 instead of $100 just to avoid soldering? -- Steve Kostecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ __

Re: [ntp:questions] GPS with PPS without any soldering requirements?

2008-02-12 Thread Paul . Croome
Folkert, Take a look at http://www.cnssys.com/cnsclock/CNSClockII.html. Paul ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] GPS with PPS without any soldering requirements?

2008-02-11 Thread David L. Mills
Dag-Erling, Correct. That was the plan for my latest Intel motherboard. Problem is, Intel wired the motherboard header backwards. My SIIG serial port card comes up COM5, COM6,..., but my favorite old program requires COM1 or COM2. Dave Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Ada

Re: [ntp:questions] GPS with PPS without any soldering requirements?

2008-02-11 Thread Unruh
=?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Adams) writes: >> The way I finally got mine working in a stable setup was to use USB for >> the NMEA statements and put the PPS signal over a pin on the parallel >> port (using shm_splc2 to get the PPS from

Re: [ntp:questions] GPS with PPS without any soldering requirements?

2008-02-11 Thread MasonCide
On Mon February 11 2008 10:11, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Try newegg.com for a serial pci bus expansion card. The more plain it is, the better. 16550 UART DB-9 card. I didn't read the entire thread, but in response to the subject header, DB-9 connectors are available with tiny screw terminal

Re: [ntp:questions] GPS with PPS without any soldering requirements?

2008-02-11 Thread Evandro Menezes
On Feb 11, 8:16 am, "Richard B. Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Forget the USB. USB has unpredictable latencies that make it a poor > choice for timing. Doesn't the USB protocol have an isochronous mode that guarantees real- time, predictable communication? I'm not an USB expert, just wo

Re: [ntp:questions] GPS with PPS without any soldering requirements?

2008-02-11 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Evandro Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Doesn't the USB protocol have an isochronous mode that guarantees real- > time, predictable communication? In theory, but once you throw a hub into the mix, it gets hairy. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

Re: [ntp:questions] GPS with PPS without any soldering requirements?

2008-02-11 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Adams) writes: > Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The moral is: don't buy a computer without a serial port :) > Well, I have a serial port, but it is the serial console. Not many PC > type systems (including servers) come with _two_ serial ports anymore

Re: [ntp:questions] GPS with PPS without any soldering requirements?

2008-02-11 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Adams) writes: >> The way I finally got mine working in a stable setup was to use USB for >> the NMEA statements and put the PPS signal over a pin on the parallel >> port (using shm_splc2 to get the PPS from

Re: [ntp:questions] GPS with PPS without any soldering requirements?

2008-02-11 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Adams) writes: > The way I finally got mine working in a stable setup was to use USB for > the NMEA statements and put the PPS signal over a pin on the parallel > port (using shm_splc2 to get the PPS from there to ntpd) since I didn't > have an available serial port. The m

Re: [ntp:questions] GPS with PPS without any soldering requirements?

2008-02-11 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Richard B. Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Forget the USB. USB has unpredictable latencies that make it a poor >choice for timing. The way I finally got mine working in a stable setup was to use USB for the NMEA statements and put the PPS signal over a pin on the parallel po

Re: [ntp:questions] GPS with PPS without any soldering requirements?

2008-02-11 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
Folkert van Heusden wrote: > Hi, > > Are there any cheap GPS receivers which emit a PPS signal and can be > used directly without any soldering? E.g. usb or rs232. > Forget the USB. USB has unpredictable latencies that make it a poor choice for timing. If you can't, or won't, use a soldering

[ntp:questions] GPS with PPS without any soldering requirements?

2008-02-11 Thread Folkert van Heusden
Hi, Are there any cheap GPS receivers which emit a PPS signal and can be used directly without any soldering? E.g. usb or rs232. Folkert van Heusden -- Multitail - gibkaja utilita po sledovaniju log-fajlov i vyvoda kommand. Fil'trovanie, raskrašivanie, slijanie, vizual'noe sravnenie, i t.d.