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Re: [time-nuts] PC clock generator without 14.318MHz

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Hal Murray
Wed, Oct 19, 2016 5:00 AM

What I need is that really boring single camera watching from a single
viewpoint with a high resolution counter in the field of view.  The "big
countdown clock" at KSC doesn't show fractions of a second.

What's the technology for that clock?  I'll guess that was before LEDs so
they probably used glowing metal.  How long does that take to heat up when a
segment turns on or cool down when a segment turns off?  Could you recover
the camera frame offset by carefully examining the intensity in a few frames
around each second tick?

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jimlux@earthlink.net said: > What I need is that really boring single camera watching from a single > viewpoint with a high resolution counter in the field of view. The "big > countdown clock" at KSC doesn't show fractions of a second. What's the technology for that clock? I'll guess that was before LEDs so they probably used glowing metal. How long does that take to heat up when a segment turns on or cool down when a segment turns off? Could you recover the camera frame offset by carefully examining the intensity in a few frames around each second tick? -- These are my opinions. I hate spam.