[time-nuts] TS-2100 gps receiver setup question

Gerhard Wittreich wittregr at wittreich.org
Wed Oct 9 12:28:20 EDT 2013


Howard,

In a September 2008 post by Jason Rabel in reference to converting a
TS2100irig to GPS.  The original question stated that the GPS always looked
busy.  Here is his response...I wonder if this will solve your problem?

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I've successfully converted my TS2100 IRIG to a GPS model along with several
other people. As far as I know, the Oncore module was never used (maybe a
planned future upgrade), but the ACE-III modules work just fine.

The trick is you need to make a temporary interface with your ACE-III and
set PORT1 to 9600 8O1 TSIP in, TSIP out. The receiver is probably set to 8N1
right now which is why it's not working. I dug through my old emails and
this bit of information might also be useful:

TSIPMonitor32 seemed to always (re)set the receiver to 9600-8N1. My
workaround was to use the Acutime TR_Monitor (set to the pallisade receiver)
to set the baud rate, then run TSIP chat and save the seeprom settings
there.

You should be able to find all those programs on the Trimble FTP server. No
need to mess with any jumpers or eeproms... Just be sure to flash your
firmware to the latest version (which is a couple years old at least I
think).


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-- Gerhard


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