hi the hard reset took me about 48 hours.
73 dave On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Chris Waldrup <[email protected]> wrote: > Is it possible I bricked the unit by doing the factory reset? > > If so can I update the firmware somehow to get back to where I was? > > Thank you. > > > > > Chris > > KD4PBJ > > > > — > Sent from Mailbox > > On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Chris Waldrup <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Everyone, > > When I got home last night from work, my thunderbolt was plugging along, > tracking about 5 satellites. The ppb error was a few hundred though. > > So in Tboltmon I did a factory reset and everything changed to question > marks. All the critical alarms came up green and self survey went to 1% but > after a few hours the unit wasn't receiving any satellites and still at 1%. > > So I loaded Lady Heather onto the old 1997 vintage laptop that controls > the Thunderbolt. I figured out how to get to the command menu in LH using > the space at, then typed ! Then H for a hard reset. I left the unit running > Lady Heather all night and at 4:45 AM it still hadn't acquired any > satellites. > > I'm busy until Sunday afternoon but when I get back to it I will see if > there is a menu setting in LH where after doing a hard reset I need to > re-enable the receiver. I'm getting serial comms just fine. > > I'll let you guys know what I find. Thanks again. > > Chris > > KD4PBJ > > — > > Sent from Mailbox > > On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 11:14 PM, Bryan _ <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Chris: > >> If you did a cold reset I *think* it should have already done that, you > would have known because it would have said conducting survey or something > like that as opposed to "Overdetermined clock". To be safe and force it,use > the following keystrokes in LH > >> S and then P > >> -=Bryan=- > >>> Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 04:58:39 -0700 > >>> From: [email protected] > >>> To: [email protected] > >>> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] A few questions about Tboltmon > >>> > >>> Hi Bryan, > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> I didn't do that. Is this something accessible under one of the tabs? > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> Chris > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> — > >>> Sent from Mailbox > >>> > >>> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 5:21 AM, Bryan _ <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>> > Did you do 48 hour precision first survey first to get an accurate > Lat/Long/ altitude?. You will probably need to start with a cold reset to > erase any previously stored data and then perform the survey. > >>> > -=Bryan=- > >>> >> Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 19:16:23 -0700 > >>> >> From: [email protected] > >>> >> To: [email protected] > >>> >> Subject: [time-nuts] A few questions about Tboltmon > >>> >> > >>> >> Hi, > >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> I got my new Thunderbolt up and running this past weekend but I > have a few questions. I understand Lady Heather is a better program, and I > have downloaded it. However right now I am trying to get things right with > Tboltmon first. I had used it with my previous GPSDO, a Starloc II. I hate > to say but the Starlic just worked, so I didn't pay much attention to > Tboltmon other than to see that I was seeing satellites. Please forgive me > if some of the questions may sound simplistic, but I'm sort of new to being > a time nut. > >>> >> The Thunderbolt is brand new in package. I purchased a Power One > open frame supply from EBay that was also new old stock. Before connecting > it to the Thunderbolt, I went ahead and ordered new electrolytic caps from > Mouser and spent last Friday night recapping the Power One box. I measured > the outputs with a DMM to make sure I had 5 V, -12 V and 12 V. > >>> >> Noticing that in my old antenna location I could now only see 1-2 > satellites (trees have grown a bit) I moved the antenna to the roof of my > house, attached to a plumbing vent pipe, with a completely open view of the > sky here on top of a mountain in Tennessee. > >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> Here's what I am noticing: > >>> >> To start with I simply turned on the Thunderbolt on Saturday > morning without doing a warm or cold reset. Within a few minutes, I was > seeing six or seven satellites, with the SV boxes lit up green with various > numbers which I assume are satellite ID numbers. When I woke up Sunday I > was down to seeing only two satellites. The numbers listed were different > than the ones I saw before I went to bed Saturday. But when I unplugged > the AC power from the Thunderbolt and plugged it back in, I was back to six > satellites. > >>> >> I had thought that the GPS satellites I am able to see from my > location are fixed 24/7. Do they move and different satellites come into > view with rotation of the earth? > >>> >> I did a warm reset when I got up at 4:45 this morning and when I > got home, four satellites were still green on Tboltmon. About an hour ago I > went ahead and did a cold reset. > >>> >> I now have 6 satellites where the SV is green, and one with a > yellow SV with a value of 7.0. > >>> >> All critical alarms are green, and all minor alarms are green > except position questionable which is yellow. That has been yellow since > Saturday. > >>> >> Under the Disciplining status, Mode is (0) Normal and Activity is > (0) Phase Locking. > >>> >> The Timing Outputs are all over the place and have been since > Saturday. Twenty minutes ago I got: > >>> >> PPS -106588.28 ns GPS > >>> >> 10 MHz 166.08 ppb > >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> So far today I have gotten the following ppb readings: > >>> >> -41.48 > >>> >> 374.30 > >>> >> 0.48 > >>> >> 0.70 > >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> Should the Timing output variance concern me? > >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> Thanks in advance for any help or advice. > >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> Chris > >>> >> KD4PBJ > >>> >> Monteagle, TN > >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> — > >>> >> Sent from Mailbox > >>> >> _______________________________________________ > >>> >> time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > >>> >> To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > >>> >> and follow the instructions there. > >>> > > >>> > _______________________________________________ > >>> > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > >>> > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > >>> > and follow the instructions there. > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > >>> To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > >>> and follow the instructions there. > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > >> To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > >> and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (ubuntu linux 15-04) PO Box 15 Ophir, OR 97464 linux counter #64628 (since 1997) _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
