Hmm... my receiver is stripped out of the original and in its own plastic box, rewired and no need for a red button press etc, just locks on after a while....I remember Jeff fixing it for me.... I'll have to dig it out, been a while.
On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 8:59 AM Terry S <tschw10...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's an entirely different movement. To work with Jeff's code and > hardware, you must find the old movement with a large red button. There are > old movements with a blue button; best I can tell, (disclaimer: I have not > taken one apart) these will not work either. They use a different push > button sequence to sync the hands to the current time. > > On Wednesday, November 8, 2023 at 6:51:11 PM UTC-6 Nicholas Stock wrote: > >> Klockit still sell Quartex atomic modules, do these not work? I had >> planned on buying a spare at some point.... >> >> On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 8:33 PM Terry S <tschw...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> He did indeed, Nick. I feel fortunate to own a couple of them. >>> Unfortunately the WWVB clock movement he used on this device has become >>> unobtanium. I have one stashed away, bought at a local thrift store..... if >>> the need arises. >>> >>> On Tuesday, November 7, 2023 at 10:11:36 PM UTC-6 Nicholas Stock wrote: >>> >>>> Very nice Terry! I should get my one out of its slumber too....IIRC it >>>> needs a colon resoldering... >>>> >>>> Jeff made some nice timepieces.... >>>> >>>> Nick >>>> >>>> On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 8:08 PM gregebert <greg...@hotmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Nice! How far away from Denver are you located ? I wonder if the >>>>> signal strength is an issue. And if you're a time zealot, being 2000 miles >>>>> away means your time will be about 10msec late due to propagation delays. >>>>> Doggone it, radio signals and fiberoptics are so annoyingly slow.... >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Tuesday, November 7, 2023 at 4:29:14 PM UTC-8 Terry S wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> After sitting dormant for more than a year, I decided to take a 3rd >>>>>> look at my Jeff Thomas WWVB clock, the one that uses the huge Z568M >>>>>> tubes. >>>>>> At some point the WWVB clock module fell off a window ledge and would >>>>>> never >>>>>> lock onto the radio station after that. >>>>>> >>>>>> I had dug into it earlier and never found a fault -- it just wouldn't >>>>>> lock. But recently I bought a decent magnifier for my workbench, and >>>>>> today >>>>>> I took it apart again. Still didn't find a definitive cause for the >>>>>> failure, but under magnification, I went thru the board and re-soldered >>>>>> all >>>>>> my connections as well as some of the factory solder joints. I wasn't at >>>>>> all confident that I'd made any improvements. >>>>>> >>>>>> Put it all back together and within an hour, the clock had locked >>>>>> onto WWVB and is working perfectly. I must've touched the right solder >>>>>> joint![image: 20231107_182327.jpg] >>>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups "neonixie-l" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>>> an email to neonixie-l+...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To view this discussion on the web, visit >>>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/94d8d34a-59b1-4f1d-ad73-1e9745ccdca0n%40googlegroups.com >>>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/94d8d34a-59b1-4f1d-ad73-1e9745ccdca0n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>>> . >>>>> >>>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "neonixie-l" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to neonixie-l+...@googlegroups.com. >>> >> To view this discussion on the web, visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/6a7f9715-54c0-4afd-89dd-52277b962398n%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/6a7f9715-54c0-4afd-89dd-52277b962398n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "neonixie-l" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/eb5d2967-0f14-462f-8b90-ac1aa1eb1fd2n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/eb5d2967-0f14-462f-8b90-ac1aa1eb1fd2n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/CAOX%2BRH%2BBXnh4vLnreAMkysxXtjx8sZ564XvzOrweDKRoBzMPyw%40mail.gmail.com.
