Hi Mark,
After all the effort you just put in, you'll be a touch annoyed that Jamma
Boards have done a kit for TM500 extenders for ages ... OTOH you may know
about them and have decided you could do better.
http://www.jammaboards.com/store/tektronix-tm500-series-extender-kit-tm500-
kit.html
LTE does support the long-standard NITZ (network information and time zone)
service. It's an easy way to find out just where you are without having to
change your TZ settings constantly. In fact, if you go to time settings on HTC
Android phones, the 'automatic time update(NITZ)' setting turns
I believe I would be interested in two.
John WA4WDL
Mark Sims hol...@hotmail.com wrote:
I just finished laying out a small circuit board for building an extender
cable for the Tek TM500 series mainfames / modules. Prototypes are off being
fab'd at OSHPARK. Should be here in a couple
For informational purposes I will show what I use to compare with my stock
Iphone. It is an app called emerald time. Screenshot at:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zt6tjrsylrrtrc3/2014-08-04%2008.06.02.png
You can set it up to sync with you own ntp server. I think. You can just spot
check it.
Mark;
Could you describe your design a bit more? E.g.,
1) There are connectors at both ends of those cables; what are your socket
provisions for the module end?
2) Do you use 0.1 40-pin headers at both ends, or some other form of
termination?
BTW, I'd be interested in some, as well, depending on
Several people on the TekScopes/Tekscopes2 forums went through this a
while back. It turned out that ribbon cable appropriate for this
application was either not available or too expensive.
John Griessen made a set of PWBs and sold kits consisting of a PWB pair,
a connector pair and a set of
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 5:38 AM, BIll Ezell w...@quackers.net wrote:
Clearly, just using something like NTP directly isn't all that useful
because you have to know your physical location to know what timezone
correction to appl
I'm pretty sure you have to set the time zone that is displayed.
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 6:09 AM, Bill Dailey docdai...@gmail.com wrote:
I have never done a rigorous analysis but it appears to be within 1.5s or
better most of the time.
That is what to expect. as of IOS 5 they use NTP but they look at the
clock drift and use NTP at a polling interval just
As someone who crosses time zone boundaries with relative frequency, I can tell
you that the iPhone does indeed set it's time zone automatically, based on
information the phone gets from the cellular network.
Sent from my iPhone
On Aug 4, 2014, at 11:49, Chris Albertson
I have seen the Jamma kit (I will be using their edge connectors) and John's
design. Their main problem is the hassle of wiring up 56 individual wires.
Also that tends to be not all that reliable... wires tend to break at the
solder joints.
The board that I laid out has two 40 pin ribbon
It turned out that ribbon cable appropriate for this application was either
not available or too expensive.
Are standard disk cables a reasonable length? (and a pinout you can use)
I don't know the details, but there are two types of disk cables. The old
style uses standard 40 pin ribbon
Mark, that is a nice idea and much easier to construct. Count me in for two
sets.
Regards,
Tom
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I have seen the
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I *think* it’s even more specific than that. I’ve watched it switch time
driving down the road in Indiana. As we did zig zags over the time zone line,
the iPhone quite happily changed displayed time. My guess was that it used GPS
location info to decide which side of the line it was on.
You can select the behavior you prefer...
SettingsGeneralDate Time. You can set it manually or have it set
automatically based on your current location.
Leaving to automatic uses a surprising amount of battery power.
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Bob Camp kb...@n1k.org wrote:
Hi
I
Every cell phone I've ever had figures out the timezone by itself in the US and
in every country in Europe and Asia I've been to.
It used to be basically automatic (automagic?) with CDMA; the local tz offset
from UTC, plus the correction offset for GPS time (which the basestations had
Bill,
I just got Emerald Time for my iPad - quite a great app, considering I need
accurate time for things. Is there a website for the app developer?
Many thanks!
Shane.
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 8:16 AM, Bob Camp kb...@n1k.org wrote:
Hi
I *think* it’s even more specific than that. I’ve
I've heard that people who live near time zone boundaries (very near, like
within a mile or two) often have to switch automatic setting off, because
the time might be an hour off depending on which tower their phone connects
to. the annual switches to and from daylight saving time can cause
Emerald Time is a very nifty little app, and yes, I've used it a number of
times to check my phone's displayed time. It's often off by more than two
seconds but never more than three, so far.
There are several other apps that can check the time with NTP, and display
it in different formats,
Am I right in thinking that two of these connector/cables would give the
full facilities on the 5000 series units.
Roy
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Sent: Monday, August 04, 2014 4:02 PM
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you would have to dig around and look. I am sure there is. I have played
with it for a year or two. I put my own ntp server in there and was
frequently disappinted that it would prefer remote servers quite often..
which cant be better than mine. I dont get that but otherwise I like it.
Bill
Yes, all 56 pins are extended, including the PWR pin unique to the 5000
series (it is a power good/power-on reset sort of signal).Several of the
TM500 modules are also double-wides and need two extender cables.
I have not done an extender for the GPIB connector, but that would be easy to
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Brian Garrett
garrettbrian1...@gmail.com wrote:
However,they will not alter the phone's internal clock.
Yes, Apple does not present an (unpriviledged) iOS API to set the
clock. Neither does (current, unpriviledge) Android. That's probably
a good thing.
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Shane Morris edgecombe...@gmail.com wrote:
Bill,
I just got Emerald Time for my iPad - quite a great app, considering I need
accurate time for things. Is there a website for the app developer?
http://www.emeraldsequoia.com/
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 8:01 PM, Bill
You are right thats why I am thinking about 2.
On the ribbon cable discussion I do agree ribbon cable can be fragile
unless solidly tied down then they are pretty stable.
An approach I have used in building extenders for RS sig gens that use
Euro boards is the same stranded wire type for all pins.
Yes indeed this is very interesting.
I have a number of TM500 modules that need TLC every now and then.
I may also want two.
Regards
Paul.
WB8TSL
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Robert LaJeunesse lajeune...@mail.com
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On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 7:27 PM, Paul tic-...@bodosom.net wrote:
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Shane Morris edgecombe...@gmail.com
wrote:
Bill,
I just got Emerald Time for my iPad - quite a great app, considering I
need
accurate time for things. Is there a website
Except for the three wide units such as the CG5011, CG551, etc.
Tom
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time-nuts@febo.com
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I would like to get a pair too
Alex
KJ6UHN
On 8/4/2014 5:15 PM, paul swed wrote:
Yes indeed this is very interesting.
I have a number of TM500 modules that need TLC every now and then.
I may also want two.
Regards
Paul.
WB8TSL
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Robert LaJeunesse
Well, just for grins, I did a small board for extending the TM5000 GPIB
connector. I remember that the last time I extended the GPIB bus by hooking a
ribbon cable to the TM5000 mainframe motherboard it was a bit of a hassle to
get to. These should make life easier...
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