Since people are showing off their clocks... I managed to get a Datum / Bancomm bc632D display from eBay a while back and it's pretty cool.
>From what I can tell, they took an off-the-shelf model from Beta Brite (Now I >think owned by Adaptive) and put an extra board in there with the BNC connections, and of course their own firmware. From what I can tell most of those signs are just meant for scrolling text and don't have any time ability. http://www.rabel.org/archives/Images/bc632D/ The bc632D can decode several different time formats (I have it hooked up to IRIG), it has a RTC so it can flywheel when no input or if you manually input the date/time. The only quirk is it doesn't decode the year properly, but once you set it manually it will maintain the correct year (unless you leave it unplugged for a long time and the onboard battery runs out). You have a variety of display options, but it's not as customizable as one would hope. I have it showing the time, then every 30 it will show the date for 5 seconds. Text size is about 2-1/4" high. I think I paid around $50 for the sign on eBay, but had to pay about another $40 for a proper power supply (required 7 VAC.. not DC). Still for under $100 I think it's a deal. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
