Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product PCRTC B&B Electronics
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Documentation Number PCRTC2095 Manual Cover Page B&B Electronics -- PO Box 1040 -- Ottawa, IL 61350 PH (815) 433-5100 -- FAX (815) 433-5105 Stable Real Time Clock for PCs Model PCRTC Documentation Number PCRTC2095 This product Designed and Manufactured In Ottawa, Illinois USA of domestic and imported parts by B&B Electronics Mfg.
Documentation Number PCRTC2095 Manual Table of Contents i B&B Electronics -- PO Box 1040 -- Ottawa, IL 61350 PH (815) 433-5100 -- FAX (815) 433-5105 Table of Contents CHAPTER 1. GENERAL INFORMATION .................................... 1 I NTRODUCTION .
Documentation Number PCRTC2095 Manual 1 B&B Electronics -- PO Box 1040 -- Ottawa, IL 61350 PH (815) 433-5100 -- FAX (815) 433-5105 Chapter 1. General Information Introduction The PCRTC is real time clock for PCs based on a highly stable oscillator circuit.
2 Documentation Number PCRTC2095 Manual B&B Electronics -- PO Box 1040 -- Ottawa, IL 61350 PH (815) 433-5100 -- FAX (815) 433-5105 Chapter 2. Setup Hardware Setup The address switch on the PCRTC must be set to an address which doesn’t conflict with other devices in the host computer.
Documentation Number PCRTC2095 Manual 3 B&B Electronics -- PO Box 1040 -- Ottawa, IL 61350 PH (815) 433-5100 -- FAX (815) 433-5105 Hardware Installation 1. Shut the host computer power off. 2. Remove the computer cover. 3. Remove the expansion slot cover of an unused slot.
4 Documentation Number PCRTC2095 Manual B&B Electronics -- PO Box 1040 -- Ottawa, IL 61350 PH (815) 433-5100 -- FAX (815) 433-5105 Chapter 3. Operation Overview The most common application of the PCRTC is to simply maintain the correct time on the host computer.
Documentation Number PCRTC2095 Manual 5 B&B Electronics -- PO Box 1040 -- Ottawa, IL 61350 PH (815) 433-5100 -- FAX (815) 433-5105 PCRTC v1.00, (c) Copyright 1995, B&B Electronics Mfg. Co. PCRTC address: 200h Battery Status: Good If this message appears, the driver has been installed and is running.
6 Documentation Number PCRTC2095 Manual B&B Electronics -- PO Box 1040 -- Ottawa, IL 61350 PH (815) 433-5100 -- FAX (815) 433-5105 The best method of updating the PCRTC time is to use the shareware program Timeset. Note that although this program is included on the PCRTC diskette, it is shareware and should be registered with its author.
Documentation Number PCRTC2095 Manual 7 B&B Electronics -- PO Box 1040 -- Ottawa, IL 61350 PH (815) 433-5100 -- FAX (815) 433-5105 Start_RTC_API Purpose: Initializes API, must be the first PCRTC function called in the program.
8 Documentation Number PCRTC2095 Manual B&B Electronics -- PO Box 1040 -- Ottawa, IL 61350 PH (815) 433-5100 -- FAX (815) 433-5105 Get_RTC_Time Purpose : Returns the RTC time within a structure.
Documentation Number PCRTC2095 Manual 9 B&B Electronics -- PO Box 1040 -- Ottawa, IL 61350 PH (815) 433-5100 -- FAX (815) 433-5105 Last_Power_Down_RTC Purpose: Returns date and time of last power down within a structure.
10 Documentation Number PCRTC2095 Manual B&B Electronics -- PO Box 1040 -- Ottawa, IL 61350 PH (815) 433-5100 -- FAX (815) 433-5105 QuickBASIC Example: '$INCLUDE: 'RTC_API.
Documentation Number PCRTC2095 Manual 11 B&B Electronics -- PO Box 1040 -- Ottawa, IL 61350 PH (815) 433-5100 -- FAX (815) 433-5105 C Programming Example #include <conio.
12 Documentation Number PCRTC2095 Manual B&B Electronics -- PO Box 1040 -- Ottawa, IL 61350 PH (815) 433-5100 -- FAX (815) 433-5105 Chapter 4. Calculating Error PPM Terminology The unit ppm (parts per million) provides a number similar to error expressed with percentages, but reduces the number of decimal places required.
Documentation Number PCRTC2095 Manual 13 B&B Electronics -- PO Box 1040 -- Ottawa, IL 61350 PH (815) 433-5100 -- FAX (815) 433-5105 Aging All crystal oscillators have an aging characteristic. The crystal used in the PCRTC uses the coldweld manufacturing technique, which exhibits the lowest aging characteristic of 1 ppm/year.
14 Documentation Number PCRTC2095 Manual B&B Electronics -- PO Box 1040 -- Ottawa, IL 61350 PH (815) 433-5100 -- FAX (815) 433-5105 Appendix A. Hardware I/O Map I/O Map of XT Class Machines Hex Ad.
Documentation Number PCRTC2095 Manual 15 B&B Electronics -- PO Box 1040 -- Ottawa, IL 61350 PH (815) 433-5100 -- FAX (815) 433-5105 Hardware I/O Map of AT Class Machines Hex Address Address Functi.
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