My reason to hack up a nice clock display is because no matter what I can't make my home brew stuff look as nice. So to me its a pile of displays in a nice rack box that I hook a processor to and do what ever I like. Reversing out the display methods pretty easy as they are typically multiplexed. I use Truetime DC 468 7 segment panelplex displays this way. Just like the looks. Regards
On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 1:17 PM, David Andersen <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, all - sounds like either finding a cheap IRIG display or hacking up > a pi/arduino/etc. version will be the path forward. The IRIG displays I > can find quickly on ebay are still priced for people building music > studios, so... > > RPi 3 B+ supports PoE with an extra hat, and you can get pi-powered 3.5" > TFTs cheaply. This may work best. > > A friend also pointed me to some networked dot-matrix displays that will do > NTP from timemachinescorp, which might be a fun diversion. :); -Dave > > > -Dave > > > On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 12:52 PM Bob kb8tq <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi > > > > I suspect part of the answer is “they are cool looking stuff, grab it > when > > it’s swapped out” …. > > They are out there, but not on the surplus market. > > > > Bob > > > > > On Jun 15, 2018, at 12:10 PM, Martin VE3OAT <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > What about the clock part of the old AN/GSQ-53A frequency/time rack? > > > > > > It wasn't NTP of course, but ran off of 1 MHz (as I recall) and > > generated IRIG-B for remote displays. The rack included a nice Sulzer > > crystal oscillator (plus a spare), later upgraded to HP rubidium RVFS > > (5061A?). > > > > > > There must have been thousands of them made for US DoD and NASA. We > had > > at least a dozen in Canada that I know of (5 field sites, plus spares). > > > > > > Where did they all go? > > > > > > ... Martin VE3OAT > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > > > To unsubscribe, go to > > https://lists.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > > > and follow the instructions there. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://lists.febo.com/cgi- > bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://lists.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
