Re: [neonixie-l] Presented for your consideration...The BRS Clock

2019-06-20 Thread Mac Doktor
> On Jun 20, 2019, at 4:42 PM, Bill Stanley wrote: > > Jeff; For my clock line time base, I decided on a brute force filter. I use a > opto-isolator powered by the rectified AC line with the assumption that any > noise would need enough energy to light an LED via a large resistor to get >

Re: [neonixie-l] Presented for your consideration...The BRS Clock

2019-06-20 Thread Terry Kennedy
On Thursday, June 20, 2019 at 12:57:28 PM UTC-4, Paolo Cravero wrote: > > Are you using some tricks to improve the reliability of "reading" AC line? > Either HW or SW. In Europe AC time is currently running 32 seconds late > since the beginning of the year. It will catch up, as it did in 2018

Re: [neonixie-l] Presented for your consideration...The BRS Clock

2019-06-20 Thread gregebert
> > > > Gregbert: Interested in the "genuine" qualifier and what is behind it. The > original clock board was put in a box in late 2015 with a CR2032 coin cell > powering the DS3231. When I restarted the project in early 2019, the clock > came up with under 1 minute off Great chip and really

Re: [neonixie-l] Presented for your consideration...The BRS Clock

2019-06-20 Thread Bill Stanley
> Original message > From: Paolo Cravero > > Date: 6/20/19 11:57 AM (GMT-06:00) > To: neoni...@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: [neonixie-l] Presented for your consideration...The BRS Clock > > Outstanding Bill! And it will be programmed in Assembly! &g

Re: [neonixie-l] Presented for your consideration...The BRS Clock

2019-06-20 Thread Jeff Walton
: Re: [neonixie-l] Presented for your consideration...The BRS Clock Outstanding Bill! And it will be programmed in Assembly!Are you using some tricks to improve the reliability of "reading" AC line? Either HW or SW. In Europe AC time is currently running 32 seconds late since the

Re: [neonixie-l] Presented for your consideration...The BRS Clock

2019-06-20 Thread gregebert
A genuine DS3231 does a remarkable job of keeping accurate time. I have one in a wristwatch prototype board that has not been updated for more than 4 years, and it's still within 1 minute of the real time. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [neonixie-l] Presented for your consideration...The BRS Clock

2019-06-20 Thread Paolo Cravero
Outstanding Bill! And it will be programmed in Assembly! Are you using some tricks to improve the reliability of "reading" AC line? Either HW or SW. In Europe AC time is currently running 32 seconds late since the beginning of the year. It will catch up, as it did in 2018 when the grid had "lost"

[neonixie-l] Presented for your consideration...The BRS Clock

2019-06-18 Thread Bill Stanley
I promised to post some details on my current Nixie nightmare. I present: The BRS Clock The current version of the clock is in 2 (or more) PCBs. This was done to allow changes to the display type by only either changing the display board or the display cluster boards. The board can be