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From: | Ed W |
Subject: | Re: [gpsd-dev] PPS over USB |
Date: | Fri, 04 May 2012 20:39:20 +0100 |
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On 01/05/2012 23:14, Gary E. Miller wrote:
Yo All! As some of you may know, esr has been helping the bufferbloat project with some gpsd issues. Their goal is to get good time from a USB connected GPS. Esr negotiated with Navisys to special build three units of a ublox 6 and a pl2303 with PPS conencted to USB. They call them a GR-601 and I just received the samples. The preliminary results are pretty good if a clock stable to about 1 milliSec is your goal.
Just curious but is the goal: accuracy, cheapness, off-the-shelf or something else?
I admit I haven't tried it, but I sell loads of PL2303 adaptors that just happen to dismantle very easily. I don't see any theoretical reason why you couldn't easily modify one to either put 5V power on a serial pin, or just drill a hole in the case and poke wires directly inside. This would allow you to grab say an old Garmin 18 off ebay and use that?
I got part way through the implementation of using the GPIO inputs as PPS on the PC Engines Alix boards. The goal was to enable a fairly cheap machine that could connect pretty much directly to something like a Garmin 18 (or the rather nice looking Skytraq modules, some of which seem to offer seriously accurate PPS options) and give you an inexpensive Stratum 1 box. (PC Engines boards are circa $110 for basically an entire 500Mhz i586 including ram, processor, USB, mini-PCI and up to 3 network ports)
So, just trying to understand if the goal is to be more off the shelf than a DIY prolific bodge? Or if you want an entire Stratum 1 box with microsecond accuracy, then perhaps the Alix route gets you the finished product with 2W consumption for decently low money?
Cheers Ed W
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