Yes you could do that. Perhaps you may have a great idea and make the code open source so all of us clock nuts can benefit. Using a DS3231 with the MCU also would be a fix but more hardware and higher cost. It would be quite easy to write the code and connect the DS3231 to the MCU and jigger the code to give you the required 60 or 1 Hz signal....but....is it worth it?...perhaps if one had a real collectable old TTL clock and wanted to use it to tell time...I would just like firing it up and watching the pretty numbers...lol...:)
On 27 June, 20:09, threeneurons <threeneur...@yahoo.com> wrote: > http://www.elmelectronics.com/ebench.html#Oscillators > > | Larry <unmitigated_f...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > | I recently completed a Kabtronics Nixie clock that uses line > | frequency. Now I'm going to have to add a 60Hz generator to it. > | Thanks for the link. > > If you can change the input source (3.58MHz xtal), or tweak it, you > might just want to leave things alone. > > There are 525,960 minutes in a year, on average. 525,600 for a normal > year, and 527,040 for a leap year. Being off 20 minutes in a year > works out to ~38ppm (East Coast). 8 minutes comes out to 15ppm (West > Coast). A typical crystal has 30 to 50 ppm accuracy, or between 15 to > 26 minutes off, in a year. You'll get no improvement with a common > crystal. You might just as well just stick with the line sync, and > just occasionally hit that minute button, to correct the time. > > That module won't help you unless you swap out that xtal, and tie a > TCXO to the clock input. Of course, you'll need to match the > frequency, or write your own uC code. A TCXO has an initial accuracy > in the 1ppm to 2.5ppm territory. Even when extra errors, such as aging > coming into play, you're still a lot better off than using a cheap > xtal. > > I actually use to sell a coded uC (a tiny12 in fact) on eBay, that > outputed 50Hz, 60Hz, and 1Hz. Sold it for $5 each. Maybe I should just > post the source code, to screw with that guy. Code is pretty trivial. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB.
