[ntp:questions] Re: Question to NTP developers
John Ackermann N8UR
jra at febo.com
Thu Aug 24 15:35:05 UTC 2006
David J Taylor wrote:
> John Ackermann N8UR wrote:
>> Hal Murray wrote:
>>>> There is only one GPS receiver and, of course, one PPS hardware
>>>> signal. How could the PPS signal be present on one server and
>>>> absent on the other in the same time ? This is my problem and I
>>>> suspect 50% the hardware on the motherboards and 50% the software
>>>> (OS + NTP) !
>> What is the PPS pulse width coming out of the GPS? A pulse that's too
>> narrow won't be seen by the PC serial port hardware/software.
>>
> []
>> John
>
> The GPS18 LVC pulse is 100 ms by default, although it can be programmed
> from 20 ms to 980 ms.
That should be more than long enough. So much for that theory...
John
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