Hi

I sort of doubt that a GPS aux supply is quite that low current. I have seen 
some RTC’s that won’t last a month on a coin cell. My recollection is that the 
Oncore backup is closer to that category than the “many years on a cap” group.

Bob


> On Oct 31, 2014, at 9:26 PM, Brooke Clarke <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Bob:
> 
> When HP came out with the 300 series Rocky Mountain Basic computers they were 
> fitted with a super cap to power the RTC.
> I will keep time for some months.
> http://www.prc68.com/I/HPIB.shtml#300
> 
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> 
> Brooke Clarke
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> http://www.prc68.com/I/DietNutrition.html
> Bob Camp wrote:
>> 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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