{"id":4061,"date":"2013-12-12T20:03:37","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T02:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=4061"},"modified":"2013-12-12T20:03:37","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T02:03:37","slug":"its-alive-a-little-bit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=4061","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s alive, a little bit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run: Watson Road 3.5 miles, yesterday: 1 mile]<\/p>\n<p>I worked some on the <a href=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=4023\">nixie clock project<\/a> today.<\/p>\n<p>I have the 10 MHz GPSDO frequency standard running into a little <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leapsecond.com\/pic\/picdiv.htm\">picDIV<\/a>\u00a0 dividing down to 1 pulse per second.<\/p>\n<p>I used my dremel with a cutting wheel and hacked the back half off of the nixie display board.\u00a0 I liberated the decimal counters and created a pc board which would fit in the long socket.\u00a0 I&#8217;m driving the display, 5+ and ground from the long socket.\u00a0 For the nixie HV I&#8217;m going to a trace on the old board.<\/p>\n<p>I was running two digits from a protoboard.\u00a0 But now I have installed one of the decimal counter chips dead-bug style on my pc board and am\u00a0 feeding it from the picDIV which is still on the protoboard.\u00a0 My first attempt was all soldered in before I found that I had messed up the pin numbers.\u00a0 And I was trying really hard not to do that.\u00a0 I think I rescued that counter chip.\u00a0 We shall see.<\/p>\n<p>Now it is counting single-digit seconds very nicely.\u00a0 You can see I&#8217;m using a lot of clip leads.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?attachment_id=4062\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4062\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4062\" alt=\"GE DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/GEDC0279-700x467.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/GEDC0279-700x467.jpg 700w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/GEDC0279-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run: Watson Road 3.5 miles, yesterday: 1 mile] I worked some on the nixie clock project today. I have the 10 MHz GPSDO frequency standard running into a little picDIV\u00a0 dividing down to 1 pulse per second. I used my dremel with a cutting wheel and hacked the back half off of the nixie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4063,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4061\/revisions\/4063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}