On Sep 28, 2011, at 12:34 PM, Chris Albertson wrote: > There are much cheaper counters on eBay the HP5328 goes for $100 more or less.
That's a nice price. I hadn't looked at that unit, just the PM8660/B (since I own one) and the 53230A (since I want one). I'll be glad to read the manual for the HP5328, but for the above two counters, I couldn't find a way to have the unit continuously counting which report the period of every PPS pulse. There'd be some delay while the gate re-arms it. Is there something I'm missing? I'd love to use an off-the-shelf counter so my son can do all the work himself. Though, perhaps I'll need to help him with his hardware skills. >> 5) ... I haven't >> enough experience running FreeBSD or Linux on ARM to know how well >> this will work for me. > > All those billions of Android phones and tablets are all Linux on Arm > if you look inside. Sure, I meant I didn't know how much work it'd take for me to get the PPS API kernel feature working an ARM platform or if I'd have to try a few difference development boards to get PPS working on the board. > One other option. What about a PicTic II? It is basically you micro > processor option but it's less work because someone else has already > written the uP software and made a PCB.. But they cost $50 to build > and the HP5328 counter is in that same price range. PicTic II is an interesting idea, I haven't look at it's features in close to two years, so I should revisit it! Thanks for your ideas, Chris! Kevin _______________________________________________ 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.
