Paolo, that is exactly what I was thinking of! Now I have to get a 
programmer and a small PIC or something similar and experiment with it!

/Martin

On Sunday, 29 January 2017 21:38:11 UTC+1, Paolo Cravero wrote:
>
> Hi.
> I use the SQW output of Maxim RTC ICs (or clones...) in my clocks. It is 1 
> Hz/pps but I never measured its jitter: I read the time over the I2C bus 
> periodically. I believe they are related so on the long run you get the 
> same accuracy. And my cheap ds3231 modules are right on spot! 
>
> My Arduino code in on github. Code snippet to activate the one pps:
>
>     Wire.beginTransmission(0x68);
>     Wire.write((byte)0x0E);
>     Wire.write((byte)0x00); // control byte to set and enable 1 Hz SQW 
> output &B0000_0000
>     Wire.endTransmission(); /
>
>
> Paolo
>
> Il 29/Gen/2017 20:36, "Dekatron42" <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> ha scritto:
>
> Hi,
>
> I just bought an old Nixie clock design by "Karlsson" that uses a 1pps 
> signal generator from what looks like a standard electronic clock with 
> hands, I also found this "inner look" at another Karlsson clock that 
> confirms what my clock contains more or less : 
> http://www.nixie.dk/~jthomas/autopsy.html
>
> What I wonder now is if anybody has hooked up a DS3231 with a small 
> microprocessor to set it to output a 1pps signal on its output?
>
> The current 1pps generator has a big spread in time so it is sometimes one 
> minute ahead and sometimes a minute behind but it also drags behind every 
> day and I'd like to do the simplest update to the circuit and I couldn't 
> find anything simpler with better precision than the DS3231 and then 
> program it to output 1pps - if you have another idea on how to do this I'm 
> all ears!
>
> Using a frequency divider on the 32KHz output would also be possible but I 
> couldn't find any small chip that divided that right away.
>
> I don't have good GPS reception in my apartment, otherwise I would have 
> used a small GPS-unit.
>
> /Martin
>
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