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Re: rock64, date is UTC, how to make EST (s/b UTC-5)



On Sunday 22 July 2018 18:58:44 Alan Corey wrote:

> Don't really know, on a quick glance I'm not sure where to connect the
> battery.  But it has a 32 KHz oscillator.  The RK805 I think is a chip
> on the board, has a clock and several bucks in it.  The Rock64
> schematic shows it as a power distribution block.
>
> From
> http://files.pine64.org/doc/rock64/Rockchip_RK805_Datasheet_V1.1%C2%A0
>20160921.pdf
>
I do not see anything there that says battery.  And I just checked the 
printouts for both bus connectors, no battery called out. That 32khz 
crystal is I have to assume, there for clocking the sequencing of system 
power for shut down and bootup. Never used off chip from what I can see.

> Looks like it expects 2.8 - 3.5 volts so not a lithium battery.  Not
> sure if it tries to charge it or not.
>
> You know about their IRC, right?
>
> http://uk.pine64.xyz:9090/?channels=Pine64&uio=MTE9MjE131
>
Yes, I hit that at least daily. I'm the gene83 there.

> Strange URL, there are pine64 and rock64 channels in there.
>
Apparently their own irc server.

Thanks Alan.

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