Hi

The ultra cap is a pretty small one (physical small). You might be able to find 
a larger (more farads) one that would fit in the same space. It’s not going to 
help for a hours and hours sort of outage. It might get you from dying in 15 
minutes to dying in a half hour. 

Bob

> On Oct 31, 2014, at 12:42 PM, Tom Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I thought so too. There is an ultracap in each unit.
> 
> 
> Tom
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Seguin" <[email protected]>
> To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" 
> <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2014 12:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Lucent KS-24361, HP/Symmetricom Z3809A, Z3810A, 
> Z3811A, Z3812A GPSDO system
> 
> 
>> I have both of my units sitting on the bench. I found that I needed to 
>> connect them together to get the REF1 unit to come out of standby.
>> 
>> I am using GPSCon to monitor and it appears to work fine.
>> 
>> One thing on my units, when I power cycled them, it started a 'survey' over! 
>> I didn't expect that. Are others seeing this. There must be a way to store 
>> the surveyed position....
>> 
>> Tnx,
>> Mike
>> 
>> On 10/30/2014 3:59 PM, Bob Stewart wrote:
>>> Hi Anthony,
>>> Did you power cycle both units as part of connecting them together at J5 to 
>>> J5?  And can you remind me whether you are using the supplied interface 
>>> cable, or are you using something else?  After warmup, the ON light is on 
>>> for the REF-0 unit and the STBY light is on for the REF-1 unit.  While 
>>> running, there is no output from J8 on the unit marked STBY. J8 works on 
>>> the unit marked ON.  There is a timestamp coming from J6, and I think a 
>>> 1PPS signal on some pin or other.
>>> 
>>> Bob     From: Anthony Roby <[email protected]>
>>>  To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement 
>>> <[email protected]>
>>>  Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 2:24 PM
>>>  Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Lucent KS-24361, HP/Symmetricom Z3809A, Z3810A, 
>>> Z3811A, Z3812A GPSDO system
>>> 
>>> I'm still having no luck with mine.  When I power on, the LEDs cycle, the 
>>> Fault light is on and the No GPS and Standby lights flash.  When I connect 
>>> my GPS antenna, the No GPS light stops flashing and stays on. After several 
>>> minutes only the Standby light is on.
>>> 
>>> When I connect both the Ref1 and Ref0 together with the interface cable, 
>>> the Fault lights on both units are illuminated.
>>> 
>>> Do you see the same?  I don't know what to infer from the Fault light since 
>>> there is no supplemental data to work from.
>>> 
>>> Anthony
>>> 
>>> 
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>> 73,
>> Mike, N1JEZ
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