It's an entirely different movement. To work with Jeff's code and hardware, you must find the old movement with a large red button. There are old movements with a blue button; best I can tell, (disclaimer: I have not taken one apart) these will not work either. They use a different push button sequence to sync the hands to the current time.
On Wednesday, November 8, 2023 at 6:51:11 PM UTC-6 Nicholas Stock wrote: > Klockit still sell Quartex atomic modules, do these not work? I had > planned on buying a spare at some point.... > > On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 8:33 PM Terry S <[email protected]> wrote: > >> He did indeed, Nick. I feel fortunate to own a couple of them. >> Unfortunately the WWVB clock movement he used on this device has become >> unobtanium. I have one stashed away, bought at a local thrift store..... if >> the need arises. >> >> On Tuesday, November 7, 2023 at 10:11:36 PM UTC-6 Nicholas Stock wrote: >> >>> Very nice Terry! I should get my one out of its slumber too....IIRC it >>> needs a colon resoldering... >>> >>> Jeff made some nice timepieces.... >>> >>> Nick >>> >>> On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 8:08 PM gregebert <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Nice! How far away from Denver are you located ? I wonder if the >>>> signal strength is an issue. And if you're a time zealot, being 2000 miles >>>> away means your time will be about 10msec late due to propagation delays. >>>> Doggone it, radio signals and fiberoptics are so annoyingly slow.... >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tuesday, November 7, 2023 at 4:29:14 PM UTC-8 Terry S wrote: >>>> >>>>> After sitting dormant for more than a year, I decided to take a 3rd >>>>> look at my Jeff Thomas WWVB clock, the one that uses the huge Z568M >>>>> tubes. >>>>> At some point the WWVB clock module fell off a window ledge and would >>>>> never >>>>> lock onto the radio station after that. >>>>> >>>>> I had dug into it earlier and never found a fault -- it just wouldn't >>>>> lock. But recently I bought a decent magnifier for my workbench, and >>>>> today >>>>> I took it apart again. Still didn't find a definitive cause for the >>>>> failure, but under magnification, I went thru the board and re-soldered >>>>> all >>>>> my connections as well as some of the factory solder joints. I wasn't at >>>>> all confident that I'd made any improvements. >>>>> >>>>> Put it all back together and within an hour, the clock had locked onto >>>>> WWVB and is working perfectly. I must've touched the right solder >>>>> joint![image: >>>>> 20231107_182327.jpg] >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "neonixie-l" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> To view this discussion on the web, visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/94d8d34a-59b1-4f1d-ad73-1e9745ccdca0n%40googlegroups.com >>>> >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/94d8d34a-59b1-4f1d-ad73-1e9745ccdca0n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "neonixie-l" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> > To view this discussion on the web, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/6a7f9715-54c0-4afd-89dd-52277b962398n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/6a7f9715-54c0-4afd-89dd-52277b962398n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/eb5d2967-0f14-462f-8b90-ac1aa1eb1fd2n%40googlegroups.com.
