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davedarkodavedarko 02/13/2015 at 00:164 Comments

I'm still not satisfied with the running off RTC called DS1307 and some research gave me the DS3231, which is a temperature corrected, very accurate clock module. It seems interchangeable with the DS1307 without so much hassle, so I bought some modules for 1,10 EUROs on ebay. It can't be right when the chip itself costs 3,50 on digikey, but all the modules were the same, the only difference was the price tag, so I took the cheapest. I'm tempted to measure the 1kHz square wave of the DS1307 though. Work on a photogenic case is still something I have to do, I need that 100th skull!

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Anool Mahidharia wrote 02/13/2015 at 04:21 point

+1 on the DS3231. We (wyolum.com) always use it for all of our RTC needs. Seems you found a really cheap source. Let us know if the chips are good.

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davedarko wrote 02/13/2015 at 09:57 point

It's weird that it's actually cheaper than the cheapest DS1307 module (1.11 EUR) on ebay I could find, but the next price was around 1.40EUR, so I hope they just want to get rid of them or something. I will definitely write something about the accuracy.

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Jeremy Lambert wrote 02/13/2015 at 02:59 point

yup.  that 1307 will run away.  glad you found the temperature corrected version.

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davedarko wrote 02/13/2015 at 10:03 point

I was in the hope to fix it somehow by changing the quartz or do something else. At least it's not a pricey swap.

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