Teac HS-P82 Quick Start Guide - Manual (Page 10)

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FREE RUN means that once you manually enter a starting timecode, the generator will
continuously run.
FREE ONCE is similar to what Denecke would call a one-time jam sync. The generator will lock
onto an incoming timecode signal, sync to it once, and then continue to run on its own after the
external or master timecode has been disconnected. (default factory setting)
Note that the HS-P82 will subsequently ignore external timecode, unless you switch
modes to something else and back again. This is the main difference to JAM SYNC.
Kind of what happens when you jam sync the timecode slate to a recorder, but in this
instance the recorder jam syncs to an external master source.
JAM SYNC is similar to FREE ONCE, except that the internal timecode generator will continue to
read and synchronize to the incoming signal. If the external timecode becomes disconnected,
then the TASCAM will enter a free run mode.
Although Free Once is the factory default, JAM SYNC is the preferred mode to use by
most Sound Mixers, since it allows the TASCAM to continually update to the latest
external (jam sync) code coming in.
REGEN is what we would commonly refer to as external timecode mode. The TASCAM reads the
incoming timecode, and regenerates it as a clean signal.
REC RUN is when the timecode generator only runs during the RECORD mode. If the TASCAM is
in stop or pause, so is the generator. This will give all of your recorded files a continuous
timecode without gaps. However, cameras and timecode slates will be difficult to maintain sync
with, unless you physically cable or transmit to them at all times. Once they are disconnected
from the recorder, other devices will have no way of knowing when the TASCAM is recording or
stopped.
TC SYNC REC is a new setting that came out in v1.20 that allows the recorder to automatically
start and pause recording in response to the state of external timecode. This allows the camera
to operate in a REC RUN timecode mode and to control the start/pause of the TASCAM, so that
the final timecode on camera & audio tracks are continuous and without gap – which makes
some editors very happy, and the rest of us on the set less happy. It requires a very solid
hardwired or wireless connection between camera and sound; and inevitably that connection
will, after a time, physically fail – resulting in camera rolling without audio.
Power Off gen: the factory default setting is OFF. When the TC generator is set to TIME OF DAY, REGEN,
or REC RUN – this setting has no effect.
The power-off timecode generation requires a battery to be installed in the rear NP slot (the
HS-P82 doesn't have a secondary battery just for this purpose).