[time-nuts] Oncore battery backup

paul swed paulswedb at gmail.com
Wed Apr 6 19:56:46 UTC 2011


Oh there you go.
You have made me think. Indeed there are commands that would easily be sent
from a small basic language program on a Basic stamp or SXB or Pic etc etc.
I think its only 2-3 commands also.
But I just need to get off my *()& and add the battery before getting silly.
Regards
Paul

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Chris Albertson
<albertson.chris at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Murray Greenman
> <Murray.Greenman at rakon.com> wrote:
> > Why not just put a bigger battery in your UPS? I have a couple of old
> > ones, and they run just fine with an old car battery, and thus give me
> > many hours of backup for my Trimble/Nortel GPSDO.
>
> Because with an Oncore you can't even move it or swap a cable.
> Anything that causes the power to go down even for an instant clears
> the memory and a simple $1 battery will fix this problem and last for
> many years.   Yes get the UPS but the Oncore can be greatly improved
> by such a simple and cheap fix that it makes sense to do it.
>
> That said, there are commands you can send to the Oncore that will
> load an almanac and a survey location.  So even after a memory loss
> you can be up running in a few seconds after this data are loaded from
> a computer.
>
>
> --
> =====
> Chris Albertson
> Redondo Beach, California
>
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