Re: KX3 / KXBC3 NiMH Battery Charger and Real-Time Clock
Posted by
wayne burdick on
May 05, 2016; 3:50pm
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/KX3-KXBC3-NiMH-Battery-Charger-and-Real-Time-Clock-tp7617153p7617189.html
wickedbeernut <
[hidden email]> wrote:
> I have a dumb question ... why doesn't the KX3 support the current month, day
> and year in conjunction with the KXBC3? Is this a limitation of the KX3
> firmware or the KXBC3 real-time clock? I've never heard of a real-time
> clock which didn't support the current month, day and year. Most support
> leap year compensation and are valid through at least 2100.
>
> Joe
> KF5WBO
Hi Joe,
The KXBC3 uses a nano-power PIC MCU running our own firmware, not a real-time-clock IC. This MCU provides both the clock and charge-controller functions.
It would be possible to add support for date readout in the future. This is the first such request, but it's now on the wish-list.
73,
Wayne
N6KR
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