OK Clark put some pix up.
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Jim Hickstein <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/22/12 1:56 PM, paul swed wrote: > >> Yahoo for real voltage power and current. Teletype style. >> Yes indeed the old loop currents seriously worked. >> No AA batteries here. ;-) >> >> When will we see a pix of this unit?? >> > > It's my day off. :-) > > Regards >> Paul >> WB8TSL >> >> On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 9:25 PM, Brooke Clarke<[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Hi Jim: >>> >>> There are a number of options. >>> >>> Ken's clock clinic sells what appears to be a No. 6 Battery that has a >>> synchronization function for the Western Union clocks. >>> But the problem with it and the drivers for slave clocks is that they use >>> fairly low voltage circuitry. >>> >>> Stock Tickers and Teletype machines are tpically run with loop voltages >>> in >>> the 60 to 200 Volt range. >>> >>> Have Fun, >>> >>> Brooke Clarke >>> http://www.PRC68.com >>> http://www.**end2partygovernme**nt.com/**Brooke4Congress.html<http://end2partygovernment.com/**Brooke4Congress.html> >>> <**http://www.**end2partygovernment.com/**Brooke4Congress.html<http://www.end2partygovernment.com/Brooke4Congress.html> >>> > >>> >>> >>> Jim Hickstein wrote: >>> >>> I have a Spectracom 8170 in the living room (who doesn't?), and a >>>> Western >>>> Union time-service clock, a.k.a SWCC clock -- a nice one, in a >>>> 3-foot-high >>>> wood case. I've been watching TV with this combination for years and >>>> years >>>> but never got around to feeding a pulse from the 8170 to discipline the >>>> other one. Now that Western Union no longer provides the service. :-) >>>> But >>>> it just begs to be done. >>>> >>>> I did draw up a TTL circuit, once (on a napkin, naturally, which I have >>>> now misplaced), that could live inside the 8170. I figured out the >>>> minimum >>>> number of inputs needed to detect when the MM:SS LED displays said 00:00 >>>> (for one second). It would close a relay, which could feed the >>>> winding-battery power to the hour-set solenoid down a pair of wires >>>> from 10 >>>> feet away. But I never built it. >>>> >>>> A little over a year ago the TS clock was getting gummy and free-running >>>> slower and slower, so I sent it to the clock hospital. It's back and >>>> free-running nicely, so maybe it's finally time I did this. Anyone got >>>> a >>>> better idea than my little TTL circuit, on a breadboard inside the 8170? >>>> I'd like to get it across the rear panel without cutting a new hole, >>>> if I >>>> can avoid it. But maybe the right connector would do. Another >>>> time-code >>>> receiver in the TS clock, e.g. a GPS module that provides a relay >>>> closure >>>> for 1 second on the hour (if such exists) might be neater. But the >>>> living >>>> room faces north. >>>> >>>> ______________________________****_________________ >>>> time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >>>> To unsubscribe, go to >>>> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/****<https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/**> >>>> mailman/listinfo/time-nuts<htt**ps://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/** >>>> mailman/listinfo/time-nuts<https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts> >>>> > >>>> and follow the instructions there. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ______________________________****_________________ >>> time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe, go to >>> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/****<https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/**> >>> mailman/listinfo/time-nuts<htt**ps://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/** >>> mailman/listinfo/time-nuts<https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts> >>> > >>> and follow the instructions there. >>> >>> ______________________________**_________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/** >> mailman/listinfo/time-nuts<https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts> >> and follow the instructions there. >> > > > ______________________________**_________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/** > mailman/listinfo/time-nuts<https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts> > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ 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.
