50g Random Turn ON

[rprosperi]

(01-02-2017 02:06 AM)Paul Berger (Canada) Wrote:  Well I just checked my calculators and for the 49G+ and 50G the interval between power offs is consistently 4 days, 1 hour 5 minutes each one of them reported 3 times in the period they where turned off. I also had a 49G set up and it reported 4 times in the interval it was off, and the time between power offs is less than expected, I am only seeing a consistent 3 days and 5 minutes. I have not observed any of them when this wake up cycled occurred, but if they are actually waiting the auto off timeout period, that would mean that the time between turning off and wakeup would be 5 minutes less than the recorded times between turn offs. In any case it appears that the wakeups are anything but random, varying only by a fraction of a second in my case and that is likely due to temperature cycles affecting the clock speed.

The machines with the HP-made Saturn CPU (48 family, 49) follow the auto-power-on cycle with the shorter ~3-day period, while the ARM-based machines cycle on the ~4-day period. I don't know the exact reason for the different counters, but obviously related to the emulation layer.