1 General Information about DCF77 1 General Information about DCF77 The radio remote clocks made by Meinberg receive the signal from the long wave transmitter DCF77. This long wave transmitter installed in Mainflingen near Frankfurt/Germany transmits the reference time of the Federal Republic of Germany.
2 Overview DCF600HS 2.1 RS232 Output An asynchronous serial port can be used to transmit information on date and time to other devices. The clock is configured to send time messages automatically with 19200 baud and and with a framing of 8N1 once per second.
2 Overview DCF600HS 2.4 Assignment of the Terminal Connectors Assignment of the terminal block: ———————————————— VDD: positive potential of power supply GND: reference potential of power supply Photocoupler outputs (PPO) PP 1- Emitter of photocoupler PP 1+ Collector of photocoupler...
The DCF600HS generates a PPS (pulse per second, PP 1) and a PPM (pulse per minute, PP 2). This pulses have a duration of 200 ms and are generated after the clock has synchronized first. The pulse output is elec- trically insulated by a photocoupler.
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Selecting Singls Shot generates a single pulse of defined length once per day. You can enter the time when the pulse is generated with the "Time" value. The value "pulse length" determines the pulse duration. The pulse duration can vary from 10 msec to 10 sec in steps of 10 msec. Date: 24th July 2018 DCF600HS...
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2 Overview DCF600HS Timer Mode This mode simulates a programmable day assigned timer. Three turn-off and turn-on times are programmable for each output. If you want to program a switchtime, change the turn-on time "On" and the corresponding turn-off time "Off". A turn-on time later than the turn-off time would cause a switch program running over midnight. For example a program "On"10.45.00, "Off"...
The program serves the configuration of PZFMON Meinberg Radio Clocks. The software can be run on the operating systems Windows 7, Windows Vista, Win9x, Win2000, WinXP and WinNT. A connection between the DCF600HS and the program can be produced by serial port. The configurations are described below.
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"Force Connection". By activating the button runs the program through possible baud rates and ports. The tab "COM1" is considered in connection with an version of the DCF600HS - RS485. It should be noted that, for a RS485 COM 0 is inactive.
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Information By selecting the tab "Revision" different Informations (Serial number, Firmware) can be shown. Date: 24th July 2018 DCF600HS...
flash memory via the serial port COM0. There is no need to open the case and insert a new EPROM. In order to load the appropriate software during operation of DCF600HS you must have the Flash program "mbgflash.exe" (included) to start.
3.2 Configuration with Meinberg Device Manager The program serves the configuration of Meinberg Radio Clocks. The software can be run on the operating systems Windows 7 or higher and under the following Linux distributions: Ubuntu / Mint Linux / Debian / SUSE Linux / CentOS.
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"Apply Configuration" button. Use the "Restore Configuration" button to reset all settings back to their default values. For more information, please refer to the Meinberg Device Manager manual. Firmware Update With mbgdevman you can conveniently proceed a firmware update.
4 Time Strings 4.1 Format of the Meinberg Standard Time String The Meinberg Standard Time String is a sequence of 32 ASCII characters starting with the STX (start-of-text) character and ending with the ETX (end-of-text) character. The format is: <STX>D:dd.mm.yy;T:w;U:hh.mm.ss;uvxy<ETX>...
‘!’ announcement of start or end of daylight saving time ‘ ‘ (space, 20h) nothing announced <CR> Carriage Return, ASCII Code 0Dh <LF> Line Feed, ASCII Code 0Ah <ETX> End-Of-Text, ASCII Code 03h DCF600HS Date: 24th July 2018...
(active only in 60th sec.) ‘ ‘ (space, 20h) no leap second is inserted bbb.bbbb latitude of receiver position in degrees leading signs are replaced by a space character (20h) latitude, the following characters are possible: Date: 24th July 2018 DCF600HS...
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‘E’ east of Greenwich ‘W’ west of Greenwich hhhh altitude above WGS84 ellipsoid in meters leading signs are replaced by a space character (20h) <ETX> End-Of-Text, ASCII Code 03h DCF600HS Date: 24th July 2018...
(01..31) month (01..12) year of the century (00..99) magnetic variation checksum (EXOR over all characters except ‘$’ and ‘*’) <CR> Carriage Return, ASCII Code 0Dh <LF> Line Feed, ASCII Code 0Ah Date: 24th July 2018 DCF600HS...
(1..7, 1 = 31h = Monday) checksum in hex, built from all characters including GID, ABS, TSQ, CC, ST, ... <CR> Carriage Return, ASCII code 0Dh (The standard interface configuration for this string type is 2400 baud, 7E1) DCF600HS Date: 24th July 2018...
5 Declaration of Conformity Konformitätserklärung Doc ID: -2016-04-21 Hersteller Meinberg Funkuhren GmbH & Co. KG Manufacturer Lange Wand 9, D-31812 Bad Pyrmont erklärt in alleiniger Verantwortung, dass das Produkt, declares under its sole responsibility, that the product Produktbezeichnung DCF600HS Product Designation auf das sich diese Erklärung bezieht, mit den folgenden Normen übereinstimmt...
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