Actually, I now see that the SP-353 had a decimal point so these could be used as separators, yep two displays, six digits, time, date, temp, pressure, ntp sync, all possible. Richard
On Tue, 10 Nov 2020, 15:51 Richard Scales, <[email protected]> wrote: > This design would not suit our at all. However, my other design that uses > direct drive would be well suited. > The SP-353 has three digits and no colons so that's 21 segments per > display. If you want a six digit clock then that would be easy with a > couple of HV5622 shift registers. Unfortunately it would be difficult to > have colons where you'd want them. If you used three displays then one > digit could be used as a colon. You'd need 63 outputs, how convenient, that > still leaves one spare! > So that's a definite possibility and you'd have a spare output that could > be used for something else perhaps. > Would that work for you? > Richard > > > On Tue, 10 Nov 2020, 15:27 alb.001 alb.001, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> How difficult would it be to redesign the display boards to us SP-353 >> 3-digit panaplex displays ? I still have some of those >> >> Thanks Pharma Phil >> >> ---------- Original Message ---------- >> From: Richard Scales <[email protected]> >> Date: November 10, 2020 at 10:10 AM >> >> Thank you. I have a Heathkit clock that needs some assistance. It does >> everything it should do apart from increment the time. The clock chip is >> driving the displays so I'm thinking it's OK but it just won't count time. >> I wasn't thinking of offering a kit but if anyone has a set of SP-101's >> then I can help out with Pcb's for this version as well as another one that >> I hope to have ready soon. >> Richard >> >> >> On Tue, 10 Nov 2020, 14:11 martin martin, < [email protected]> wrote: >> >> Your clock looks great! I'm currently fixing this 1970s Heathkit with an >> overheating power transformer. >> >> And yes! I would be interested in a kit >> >> >> >> ~ >> *[email protected] <[email protected]>* >> >> >> On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 6:04 AM Richard Scales < [email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> I could make plans available, or all hinges on having the displays. >> The rest of just smart sockets albeit ones I made work for these 7 >> segment displays. >> I have another design which is a direct drive approach and is therefore >> much simpler in terms of hardware whilst the software has to do a lot more >> of the heavy lifting. >> I'll show that when ready. I'm just waiting on updated pcb's to arrive. >> Richard >> >> On Tue, 10 Nov 2020, 13:58 Michail Wilson, < [email protected]> wrote: >> >> Love it. >> >> >> >> Plans, Open source, only one or making a kit available? >> >> >> >> Michail Wilson >> >> 206-920-6312 >> >> >> >> *From:* [email protected] <[email protected]> *On >> Behalf Of *Richard Scales >> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 10, 2020 1:39 AM >> *To:* neonixie-l <[email protected]> >> *Subject:* [neonixie-l] SP-101 Clock, finshed at last! >> >> >> >> I've finally completed this: Six SP-101 panaplex displays being driven by >> 'smart sockets' which are getting their instructions from a Teensy Micro. >> >> >> A Wemos provides NTP sync, sensor reading (temperature and pressure) , >> Web scraping (local wind speed and direction) and random words. >> >> >> It does the best it can with only 7 segments. 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