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amused MAME Fan Reged: 04/24/08 Posts: 300 Send PM Re: What time is it? (rant) 07/02/12 07:18 PM Reply > > > > Why, oh why, can't the %&$# free market even provide a decent clock for a > decent > > > > price? > > > > > > This does everything you require, needs no soldering iron, and tells you inside > > > temperature as well. > > > Jumbo Giant Digital Atomic Wall Clock Thermometer. > > > It costs $93 shipped. > > > > I wish I had known about this clock a few months ago. > > I might still get one like it. Or maybe not. > > There are two things I don't like about such clocks: > > 1) If it cannot receive the signal, the clock is useless. > > 2) The whole concept is a cop-out. The manufacturers are in effect saying that they > > can't be bothered to make accurate timekeepers. > > I bought that exact clock (from Amazon) in January, and am very happy with it. > > The wall where I wanted to mount it had no reception for the clock signal, so I moved > the clock around the house until I found the proper Colorado-facing window. Then, I > removed the antenna/circuit board assembly from the clock and mounted it in that > window, with a 4-conductor phone wire going back to the rest of the clock (through a > hole in the wall behind it made several years ago for a different clock). -JW Oy. What I don't understand is why they don't just measure the crystal frequency at the factory and program the ROM to compensate. (Clocks tend to be consistent in their errors.) Or provide a software equivalent of the "slow/fast" lever one sees on mechanical alarm clocks.

Entire thread Subject Posted by Posted on What time is it? (rant) amused 07/02/12 12:46 PM Did an elephant sit on your fence? GatKong  07/02/12 09:51 PM For reasons I can't explain, I love this thread. *nt* Stiletto  07/02/12 05:51 PM Re: What time is it? (rant) Gor  07/02/12 04:21 PM Re: What time is it? (rant) amused  07/02/12 05:05 PM Re: What time is it? (rant) Gor  07/02/12 06:45 PM Re: What time is it? (rant) JWJr  07/02/12 05:25 PM Re: What time is it? (rant) amused  07/02/12 07:18 PM Re: What time is it? (rant) italie  07/02/12 07:30 PM Re: What time is it? (rant) amused  07/02/12 07:36 PM Re: What time is it? (rant) italie  07/02/12 07:48 PM Re: What time is it? (rant) amused  07/03/12 03:45 AM Xtal compensation theory 101: Part 1 italie  07/03/12 05:45 AM Xtal compensation theory 101: Part 2 italie  07/03/12 06:23 AM Re: Xtal compensation theory 101: Part 2 amused  07/03/12 11:04 AM Re: Xtal compensation theory 101: Part 2 italie  07/03/12 01:42 PM Re: Xtal compensation theory 101: Part 2 amused  07/03/12 04:24 PM Re: Xtal compensation theory 101: Part 2 italie  07/03/12 05:29 PM Re: Xtal compensation theory 101: Part 2 Bekki Doll  07/07/12 12:05 AM Re: Xtal compensation theory 101: Part 2 Vas Crabb  07/03/12 04:27 PM Re: Xtal compensation theory 101: Part 2 Gor  07/03/12 05:20 PM Xtal compensation theory 101: Part 3 italie  07/03/12 07:25 AM Re: What time is it? (rant) lharms  07/02/12 10:01 PM Re: What time is it? (rant) amused  07/03/12 03:50 AM Just one question (yes, only one) italie  07/02/12 02:02 PM Re: Just one question (yes, only one) amused  07/02/12 02:40 PM Re: Just one question (yes, only one) Tomu Breidah  07/02/12 03:52 PM Re: Just one question (yes, only one) italie  07/02/12 03:47 PM Re: Just one question (yes, only one) amused  07/02/12 04:02 PM Re: Just one question (yes, only one) italie  07/02/12 04:22 PM Re: Just one question (yes, only one) amused  07/02/12 05:07 PM Re: Just one question (yes, only one) italie  07/02/12 07:51 PM Re: Just one question (yes, only one) TriggerFin  07/02/12 08:36 PM Re: Just one question (yes, only one) italie  07/02/12 09:07 PM

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