Another option might be one of these: http://www.hrclockmovement.com/cpdetail?product_id=741 I've been meaning to get one of these but haven't got round to it, so I can't vouch for it's longevity. But it does have position sensing hands and you can point it to an ntp server of your choice. Only updates once a day to it may not be time nutty enough... On 14/12/22 07:09, Bob Camp via time-nuts wrote: > Hi > > I realize that this is a bit of an odd project, but this is Time Nuts ….. > > I want a analog wall clock that reads out GPS time. As far as I can tell, nobody > is crazy enough to make one and sell it in the open market. If indeed there is > one out there, that would be great. This does not have to be a project. > > If it is a project, I’m lazy, I don’t want to set the thing and then count on it never > missing a beat. I want a movement that has some form of feedback. The > WWVB clocks have a movement like this. I could tear one apart and try to > reverse engineer the guts. That sounds like. a project inside a project. > > Does anybody sell feedback movements like this in the hobby market? If so has > anybody used one and can vouch for it working for more than a few months? > > Indeed, doing it with a display of some sort would be easier in some respects. > For now at least, I’m looking for a mechanical gizmo with hands that move. > If it reads out 12 hour time that’s ok. 24 hour time would be super cool, but > it’s not vital. > > Anybody know of a source? > > Thanks! > > Bob > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com > To unsubscribe send an email to time-nuts-leave@lists.febo.com

Hi Turns out that the folks at American Time: https://www.american-time.com/ Make a mind boggling range of wall clocks with various methods of synch ( or not …).. Unlike a lot of outfits these days, they are quite happy to deal with / sell to individuals. There’s now a couple of PoE clocks headed this way. Very nice folks to deal with and highly recommended !!! Their product also shows up on eBay, but mostly at prices that make one wonder. Given the range of products, you might have to shop for quite a while to find one that made sense at an attractive price. ( yes most of their products have a definite “school clock” look …) Bob > On Dec 17, 2022, at 5:20 AM, Andrew Davidson via time-nuts <time-nuts@lists.febo.com> wrote: > > Another option might be one of these: > > http://www.hrclockmovement.com/cpdetail?product_id=741 > > I've been meaning to get one of these but haven't got round to it, so I can't vouch for it's longevity. But it does have position sensing hands and you can point it to an ntp server of your choice. Only updates once a day to it may not be time nutty enough... > > > On 14/12/22 07:09, Bob Camp via time-nuts wrote: >> Hi >> I realize that this is a bit of an odd project, but this is Time Nuts ….. >> I want a analog wall clock that reads out GPS time. As far as I can tell, nobody >> is crazy enough to make one and sell it in the open market. If indeed there is >> one out there, that would be great. This does not have to be a project. >> If it is a project, I’m lazy, I don’t want to set the thing and then count on it never >> missing a beat. I want a movement that has some form of feedback. The >> WWVB clocks have a movement like this. I could tear one apart and try to >> reverse engineer the guts. That sounds like. a project inside a project. >> Does anybody sell feedback movements like this in the hobby market? If so has >> anybody used one and can vouch for it working for more than a few months? >> Indeed, doing it with a display of some sort would be easier in some respects. >> For now at least, I’m looking for a mechanical gizmo with hands that move. >> If it reads out 12 hour time that’s ok. 24 hour time would be super cool, but >> it’s not vital. >> Anybody know of a source? >> Thanks! >> Bob >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com >> To unsubscribe send an email to time-nuts-leave@lists.febo.com > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com > To unsubscribe send an email to time-nuts-leave@lists.febo.com

Ah, the joys of childhood memories of the Simplex clocks in the schools back in the day. (It was the late 1960s.) In high-school I was the teacher's aide for the electric/electronic shop. I was a strange duck in that I took all the college-prep courses but also all the industrial arts courses too. (I liked to build stuff AND understand the science and math behind it.) As teacher's aide I had my own set of keys for all of the industrial arts buildings, including the electrical closets. After all, I had to be able to reset tripped circuit breakers and admit maintenance personnel. The clocks were my first attempt at what would now be called "hacking". In the main electrical room was a box that seemed to have nothing to do with any thing else. I opened it up and discovered references to the Simplex clock system. Hmm, A little experimentation and I discovered the lines that controlled the clock setting system, including the "advance to top of minute" line. Everything was 120VAC control making it easy to source the setting signals. Getting the assistance of others, I determined that doing setting commands in one building affected the clocks in the whole school AND the master clock. So I built my own control box for the clocks. One of the features was a "get out of school early" switch, which connected the bell circuit to the "advance to top of minute" circuit. Since the bells were sequenced by the master clock, every time the master clock would activate a bell in our building (at the top of a minute), it would advance all the clocks by 1 minute. Since no single class lost more than a couple of minutes, the teachers didn't do anything about it and just stuck to the time on the clock. At the end of the day the clocks would have accumulated about 20-25 minutes of error and we would go home early. I got away with this for several weeks before someone reported me to the principal. Stupid me, I told too many people. (It WAS a very cool hack in those days before we had computers to play with.) Many years later the school district raised money for some project by building a wall of memory bricks that were sold to the alumni of the school district. An alumnus could purchase a brick and designate an inscription. It would then be put into the wall. Since both my mother and my aunt had attended the same school district they were able to buy a brick. The inscription?     Brian Lloyd - He advanced time. This triggers another memory -- the one where I realized I was a time nut. I discovered WWV when I was about 7. I became obsessed with making sure that all the clocks and watches in our house were regularly set to WWV. (I would check my watch every morning.) I still do, only now most of the clocks are set to GPS, WWVB, or NTP running off my local GPS-disciplined NTP server. Those that aren't are still checked and reset every week. I suspect there are others here who share that obsession. --  <https://www.lloyd.aero> Brian Lloyd 706 Flightline Spring Branch, TX 78070 brian@lloyd.aero <mailto://brian@lloyd.aero> +1.210.620.0011