Jim...

As I recall, that flipflop triggers a timer (10 seconds???) that sends the ident
bit until timeout. Bose' book confirms what I remember also.

Jim



"James M. Knox"
shared these priceless pearls of wisdom:

-Charlie England wrote in
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- So, what does the IDENT button do?
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-Just sets a flip/flop so that an extra bit is set on the next reply to an
-interrogation (which clears the IDENT flip flop).
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Jim Weir (A&P/IA, CFI, & other good alphabet soup)
VP Eng RST Pres. Cyberchapter EAA Tech. Counselor
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