Aux port sync requires a significantly stronger drive than timing port
sync.   This means that an aux port sync device may or may not be able to
receive sync from a device originally designed to send sync to a timing
port device.

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 5:19 PM, George Skorup <[email protected]> wrote:

> Not really sure what the major difference is between "timing port" and
> "aux port" sync/timing, but whatever it is, the 450i is certainly
> different. The aux port is the traditional timing port, but not exactly?
>
> The other thing to note, that Forrest mentioned here or the AF list, is
> the 450i and presumably the 450m, even though they will take either
> polarity on all pairs, two pairs + and two pairs -, they MUST have negative
> on 4&5 and positive on 7&8 for sync over power to work. And 450i doesn't
> NEED 4-pair power, 2 will work if you're not using the POE output on the
> aux port.
>
> Mostly off the top of my head, feel free to correct. Hopefully this table
> makes it onto the list properly formatted.
>
> Radio Timing Port Sync Aux Port Sync UGPS Power Canopy Sync Cambium Sync
> Ethernet Voltage POE Pinout Compliance
> PMP/PTP100 x
>
> x
> FastE
> 15-30 -4/5 +7/8
> PMP430 AP x
> ?
> x
> FastE
> 42-58 -4/7 +5/8
> PMP450 AP x
>
> x x
> GigE 19-32 -4/5 +7/8
> PMP450i AP
> x x x x GigE 42-58 -4/5 +7/8 (-1/2 +3/6) 802.3at
> PMP450m AP
> x x x x GigE 42-58 -4/5 +7/8 -1/2 +3/6
> PTP230 x
> x x
> FastE
> 19-32 -4/5 +7/8
> PTP450
>
>
>
>
> FastE
> 15-30
>
> PTP450i
>
>
>
>
> GigE
> -4/5 +7/8 (-1/2 +3/6) 802.3at
> ePMP 1000 GPS
>
>
> x
> GigE
> -4/5 +7/8 802.3af
> ePMP 2000
>
>
> x ? GigE
> -7/8 +4/5 802.3at
>
>
> On 1/11/2017 3:25 PM, Forrest Christian (List Account) wrote:
>
> So, I've been working on a document with several columns:
>
> Radio Type - the name/model of the radio.
> Timing Port Sync (checkbox) - Does the radio support 'traditional' sync
> via the timing port?
> Aux Port Sync (checkbox)  - Does the radio support newer 'aux port' sync
> via the aux port?
> uGPS-style power output - Can the radio provide power on the timing or Aux
> Port for a GPS receiver?
> Canopy Style Sync  - Does the radio support traditional 'interrupt the
> power' sync via the power port.?
> Cambium Style Sync - Does the radio support the newer 'interrupt the
> power' sync via the power port?
> Voltage range supported
> Pinout required (i.e. which pins are positive, which are negative, etc) -
> most of this I know for all of the radios.
> Other notes.
>
> I've gotten as far as the 4-5 lines I know (newer 100PMP, 320/430PMP,
> 450PMP, 450iPMP, ePMP, maybe 1-2 others).  A lot of them I used to know
> (like when did the 100 series start supporting uGPS power?) but don't
> anymore.
>
> My intent has been to get a few more radios on it and then send it out to
> the lists to help me finish it up.  But since this came up I figured it was
> as good of a time as any to ask for the help.  Unfortunately, I don't have
> the document ready in a form I can send (it's on a paper notepad by my
> computer that I'm not near right now), but since it's pretty easy to
> describe I figure I should be able to just ask...
>
> So if anyone would like to contribute one or more rows to this document
> ... I.E. describe the sync and/or power status for a given radio, that
> would be helpful.   I'm pretty good with the AP's, but as nick mentioned -
> the PTP variants are all hard to keep track of.
>
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 8:59 AM, Nick Bright <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> On 1/10/2017 5:13 PM, George Skorup wrote:
>> > Yeah. Like I said, the PTP230 began this insanity. We kept asking
>> > Motorola for the ability to buy license keys to turn PMP430 SMs into
>> > PTP230's. Then finally one Animal Farm we got the answer. The PTP230 is
>> > different than a PMP430 SM (added sync over power and maybe something
>> > else, maybe more RAM, I forget).
>> >
>> > Now we have PTP450, which is just SM hardware. No h/w variant was
>> > produced that included sync over power. Then we got PTP450i, which as I
>> > said in 5GHz is the same as AP h/w. But then along came 900MHz PTP450
>> > (they call it PTP450i, but in reality it's PTP450) which is just SM h/w,
>> > and 29.5VDC classic Canopy passive POE.
>> >
>> > I'm not saying it's good or bad, but it sure is confusing. Lacking sync
>> > over power leans towards bad though. But again, I'm petty sure you can
>> > use a UGPS, SyncPipe, SyncBox, whatever with it.
>> It's extremely confusing!
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