[time-nuts] multi time zone display for wall mounting?
I'm looking for an off the shelf commercial time display (or combination of displays).. Needs to display at least 3 zones, in 24 hr form (UTC, Pacific, Eastern), and should display Day of Year, as well. I can feed timecode to it, or even better, if it can ingest NTP. 1 second precision is more than enough. Needs to be readable from 20 feet away, but not huge... 2-3 high digits are probably in the ballpark. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
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I like the Symmetricom ND-4, however I don't know if you can have it alternate between TZs. You can buy more than one and label them like I did. http://www.symmetricom.com/products/gps-solutions/time-code-displays/Network-Time-Displays/ They can get NTP server and timezone through DHCP options, so if you have that infrastructure in place it's just a matter of plugging them into your network and they come right up. They even do Power over Ethernet so you only need to run one Ethernet cable to each clock -no separate power. -Bob On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Jim Lux jim...@earthlink.net wrote: I'm looking for an off the shelf commercial time display (or combination of displays).. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
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For wall displays, I've noticed more and more people simply mounting a large HD TVs to the wall and driving it with a computer. Even the menu board in back of Starbucks and the directory near the elevator that lists who is in what room on that floor. I've seen the 9:16 TVs mounted vertically too. Is a TV set turn key? Maybe not if you lack the staff to create the display graphics. But from a hardware point of view it is That said, any high quality wall clock will work. On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Robert Darlington rdarling...@gmail.com wrote: I like the Symmetricom ND-4, however I don't know if you can have it alternate between TZs. You can buy more than one and label them like I did. http://www.symmetricom.com/products/gps-solutions/time-code-displays/Network-Time-Displays/ They can get NTP server and timezone through DHCP options, so if you have that infrastructure in place it's just a matter of plugging them into your network and they come right up. They even do Power over Ethernet so you only need to run one Ethernet cable to each clock -no separate power. -Bob On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Jim Lux jim...@earthlink.net wrote: I'm looking for an off the shelf commercial time display (or combination of displays).. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
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On 10/9/12 9:20 AM, Robert Darlington wrote: I like the Symmetricom ND-4, however I don't know if you can have it alternate between TZs. You can buy more than one and label them like I did. That's fine.. multiple displays are no problem.. http://www.symmetricom.com/products/gps-solutions/time-code-displays/Network-Time-Displays/ They can get NTP server and timezone through DHCP options, so if you have that infrastructure in place it's just a matter of plugging them into your network and they come right up. They even do Power over Ethernet so you only need to run one Ethernet cable to each clock -no separate power. -Bob On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Jim Lux jim...@earthlink.net wrote: I'm looking for an off the shelf commercial time display (or combination of displays).. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
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On 10/9/12 10:09 AM, Chris Albertson wrote: For wall displays, I've noticed more and more people simply mounting a large HD TVs to the wall and driving it with a computer. Even the menu board in back of Starbucks and the directory near the elevator that lists who is in what room on that floor. I've seen the 9:16 TVs mounted vertically too. Interestingly, I have two 42 inch monitors already up on the walls.. but I wanted to avoid getting them too cluttered with other displays. Also, the TV draws many watts compared to some small LED display. Is a TV set turn key? Maybe not if you lack the staff to create the display graphics. But from a hardware point of view it is Oh.. it's trivial to throw up a time display in a window on the big display.. We've even got a cool little java ap that does Mars time so you can tell if your co-worker who's doing MSL ops is likely to be in their office, or asleep at home. For this application we are totally earth based, though. That said, any high quality wall clock will work. Actually, most high quality wall clocks don't do things like DOY. But I know they exist, which is what I'm looking for.. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
[time-nuts] multi time zone display for wall mounting?
Lady Heather supports a digital clock display. You can zoom it to full screen. It would not be difficult to add the two time zones to that display. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
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On 10/9/2012 6:04 PM, Mark Sims wrote: Lady Heather supports a digital clock display. You can zoom it to full screen. It would not be difficult to add the two time zones to that display. You could use three of these: http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/47 --- Graham == ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
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Hard to tell, but some of those images to me makes it look like the display is ghosting. You need to add some dead time between strobing digits. I'm partial to using a MAX7219, but watch out for the serial interface, since it is somewhat non-standard. I don't recall the details exactly, but it has to do with the clock gating. I think the 7221 fixes the quirk. On 10/9/2012 4:32 PM, Graham / KE9H wrote: On 10/9/2012 6:04 PM, Mark Sims wrote: Lady Heather supports a digital clock display. You can zoom it to full screen. It would not be difficult to add the two time zones to that display. You could use three of these: http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/47 --- Graham == ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
