The DS1307Z Datasheet says +5V for Vcc and max. +3B for Vbatt. It runs without Vbatt, but not without Vcc. You are right, The DS1629 uses the same protokol (2-wire bus). Thanks Jerry Iacobucci schrieb: > Is that the real time clock. > > I think I fried my DS1307 when I put 5 volts to the battery input instead of > battery voltage approx. 3 volts. It would not oscillate the clock after > that. > > I got a DS1629 part which has temperature and clock, and got that to work > with CCS C compiler. I think the same code would work. Dallas combined the > DS1307 clock and the DS1621 chips into one DS1629. Only problem I had was > that it only comes as an SMD part.