I recently picked up an Acutime off of Ebay. I'm wondering if 1) The acutime is broken 2) There's something wrong with the cheapo USBtoRS422 convertor 3) My wiring
It appears to function, but exhibits strange behavior. Here are 3 URLs with pngs of screenshots from the (they're 20K each, but I figured I'd save the bandwidth here) 1) http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~feigin/acutime/allespaletti.png This would appear to be in normal operation 2) http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~feigin/acutime/doingfixesnosvdata.png Here's an instance where the acutime indicates its in OD mode, but shows no SV signal data 3) http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~feigin/acutime/only2usablesv.png Here's where its about 1/2 way done its site-survey, indicating that it only has 2 SVs available, and yet the SV data shows 7 satellites, 6 with > 50 dbc/hz values Other strange behavior includes TR_Mon giving me "Floating point Overflow" errors, the product info window being sometimes completely empty, and other generally "weird" happenings. It does, however, on a Power Cycle, "do the right thing", gets the time from the first SV, and then going to OD mode when enough SVs are visible. I can even factory default it, and it will then do a site survey, and then go to OD mode.... If its broke, thats (not really) fine, as I didn't pay all that much for it, and before I invest the time and effort making a cable for it (man, those Deutsch connectors are expensive!), I'd like to know for sure. Or perhaps its something else I missed. Thanks for any pointers _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
