Month: January 2020

Fixing Trimble Thunderbolt -55° Temp Error

January 30, 2020 Adam 0

This Trimble Thunderbolt 10 MHz GPSDO (purchased off eBay) has always reported temperature incorrectly.

Everything else was fine, just the temperature being reported as -55°.

The temperature sensor is a Dallas DS1620S in a SOIC-8 package, and is quite easy … Read more...

Thunderbolt Display 2020 Date Fix

January 7, 2020 Adam 0

This v2.3 firmware fix addresses the date translation error which became apparent on January 1, 2020.
 
Due to unforeseen coding bugs in the WNRO (Week Number Roll Over) fix released in 2017, 01-Jan-20 was incorrectly displayed as 32-Dec-19.   The … Read more...