[time-nuts] Affordable PoE 6-digit time displays?

[paul swed]

My reason to hack up a nice clock display is because no matter what I can't
make my home brew stuff look as nice.
So to me its a pile of displays in a nice rack box that I hook a processor
to and do what ever I like.
Reversing out the display methods pretty easy as they are typically
multiplexed.
I use Truetime DC 468 7 segment panelplex displays this way. Just like the
looks.
Regards

On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 1:17 PM, David Andersen <dave.andersen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks, all - sounds like either finding a cheap IRIG display or hacking up
> a pi/arduino/etc. version will be the path forward.  The IRIG displays I
> can find quickly on ebay are still priced for people building music
> studios, so...
>
> RPi 3 B+ supports PoE with an extra hat, and you can get pi-powered 3.5"
> TFTs cheaply.  This may work best.
>
> A friend also pointed me to some networked dot-matrix displays that will do
> NTP from timemachinescorp, which might be a fun diversion. :); -Dave
>
>
>   -Dave
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 12:52 PM Bob kb8tq <kb8tq at n1k.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I suspect part of the answer is “they are cool looking stuff, grab it
> when
> > it’s swapped out” ….
> > They are out there, but not on the surplus market.
> >
> > Bob
> >
> > > On Jun 15, 2018, at 12:10 PM, Martin VE3OAT <ve3oat at storm.ca> wrote:
> > >
> > > What about the clock part of the old AN/GSQ-53A frequency/time rack?
> > >
> > > It wasn't NTP of course, but ran off of 1 MHz (as I recall) and
> > generated IRIG-B for remote displays.  The rack included a nice Sulzer
> > crystal oscillator (plus a spare), later upgraded to HP rubidium RVFS
> > (5061A?).
> > >
> > > There must have been thousands of them made for US DoD and NASA.  We
> had
> > at least a dozen in Canada that I know of (5 field sites, plus spares).
> > >
> > > Where did they all go?
> > >
> > > ... Martin   VE3OAT
> > >
> > >
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