[ntp:questions] Convert PPS signal from BNC to RS-232!
Jonathan Buzzard
jonathan at uk.me.buzzard
Tue Mar 6 22:16:36 UTC 2007
On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:03:41 +0000, David L. Mills wrote:
> Hal,
>
> The orignal Bell 103/201/202 modem specification required a bipolar data
> signal +-6V or more. Later, the 113 modem specification allowed unipolar
> signals, but was not widely adopted. In some cases the modem or UART
> chip does work with TTL signals, but not all. It takes two transistors
> and a resistor to fix that, or better yet a MAX232 chip. Details are in
> the NTP documentation on the gadget box page.
>
Around 99.9% of all RS232 interfaces on a PC will detect a zero as a
voltage below somewhere in the region of 1-2V and a one as anything above
that. If it where not so my receiver would not work, but it does
http://www.buzzard.me.uk/jonathan/radioclock.html
JAB.
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