Yes that's correct. There's a PIC on the clock board that drives the pushbutton input. The clock board gets some fairly simple modifications:
http://www.nixie.dk/~jthomas/wwvbmod.html http://www.nixie.dk/~jthomas/wwvb.html On Thursday, November 9, 2023 at 12:17:53 PM UTC-6 Nicholas Stock wrote: > Hmm... my receiver is stripped out of the original and in its own plastic > box, rewired and no need for a red button press etc, just locks on after a > while....I remember Jeff fixing it for me.... I'll have to dig it out, been > a while. > > On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 8:59 AM Terry S <tschw...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 <tschw...@gmail.com> 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 <greg...@hotmail.com> 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. 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