Rather the WWVB receiver board gets modifications. On Thursday, November 9, 2023 at 3:50:57 PM UTC-6 Terry S wrote:
> Yes that's correct. There's a PIC on the clock board that drives the > pushbutton input. The clock board gets some fairly simple modifications: > > http://www.nixie.dk/~jthomas/wwvbmod.html > http://www.nixie.dk/~jthomas/wwvb.html > > On Thursday, November 9, 2023 at 12:17:53 PM UTC-6 Nicholas Stock wrote: > >> 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 <tschw...@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. 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