On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 2:42 AM, Andrew Cooper <[email protected]> wrote: > We also ran into the TS2100 1995 bug this weekend. For us the consequences > are a bit more severe... The telescopes will not point to the right location > in the sky without accurate time!
Ouch. I have some friends who work at the Subaru telescope. I'll check in to see if they're affected. > For now we have configured a temporary fix... We set up two units, > previously our primary and hot spare. The first unit is set to use GPS, > which of course has the correct time but the wrong date. The first unit is > sending a 1PPS signal to a second unit which is set to 1PPS input mode with a > manually set date and time. We now have all of the IRIG and NTP capability > we need and the correct date. Out of curiosity, is there no way to "prime" the device with the current date/time (e.g. from a wristwatch) so it can interpret the GPS week information correctly? I recall that several other devices have that ability. Is there a list of other common time-nut devices that are susceptible to similar issues? Lots of time-nuts use surplus equipment that's no longer supported and it'd not be fun to have them stop working. Cheers! -Pete -- Pete Stephenson _______________________________________________ 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.
