On Dec 30, 9:28 am, Unruh <[email protected]> wrote:
> [email protected] (Kevin Oberman) writes:
> >> From: dhavey <[email protected]>
> >> Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:07:25 -0800 (PST)
> >> Sender: [email protected]
>
> >> Garmin specs say:  The rising edge of the signal is aligned to the
> >> start of each GPS second.  This means edge on assert right?  So flag2
> >> should be 0?
>
> >> What is going on here?
> >On my clock (EndRun, not Garmin) the PPS is low true, so the rising edge
> >is NOT the assert, but the rising edge at the end of the pulse. There is
> >a difference between leading and rising. (I had to talk to an engineer at
> >EndRun to confirm this was the case and it may not be for the Garmin.)
>
> Garmin defines the leading edge as the transition from 0V to 5V on the PPS
> line. Now serial has two levels -12V and +12V. with capacitive coupling,
> the garmin signal would be something like -2.5V to 2.5 V which really is
> way out of spec for the serial port. (Or with the typicallysmall duty
> cycle, more like -1V to 4V)
>
> >For EndRun, flag2 is 1.
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I don't see much difference in offsets between the two machines either
way.

Something else must be wrong.

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