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can anyone advise how to test the digital clock when out of the car?

can I pass 12v through it? if so which terminals do I use?

Cheers
Matt
 
They are much too expensive, and rare second hand, to even suggest you try and see what happens.

Sorry, I don't know.
 
Is there any aftermarket item that you can replace the clock with? mines buggered, but looking at what they go for its stupid money for something that looks like its off a cooker [8|]
 
oooo fancy... well if i find a spare $80 odd, i might consider it, Ill add it to my favorites.
 
i'll have to put it in the working 951 at some point and see if it works (especially if folk are prepared to pay a lot of money for them! - I can buy something useful for the car then lol)
 
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i'll have to put it in the working 951 at some point and see if it works (especially if folk are prepared to pay a lot of money for them! - I can buy something useful for the car then lol)
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1st dibs if you decide to give it away for free to help another 951 owner out [:D]
 
The idea of using another clock in its place is an interesting one, and one I have thought of. It is just a boring digital clock (with a timer function which I rarely use), but I would have thought that a cheap 99p digital clock could be made to fit the space, if you could find a screen to look original. It can't be very difficult if you have a duff clock you could canibalise for parts (switches and buttons) and a decent small soldering iron.

Just an idea ...


Oli.
 
ORIGINAL: mattpone

can anyone advise how to test the digital clock when out of the car?

can I pass 12v through it? if so which terminals do I use?

Cheers
Matt
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For the 928 admittedly but I bought a digi-clock from the 'bay, just before the 928 was written off, and put the battery charger across the terminals, so it can be done. My thoughts are as follows.
Any terminals marked 15 are for supply from ignition, terminals marked 30 are for unswitched supply from the battery and earth terminals are 31. Connect 31 to negative, and put a supply on either 30 or 15, which ever you have on the back of the clock, having never seen one myself. I am thinking that there will be at least one other terminal, which controls bright or dim display using an input derived from the lighting circuit, which will probably just require the application of 12v to change the brightness.
([sm=spanner3.gif] unless this all pans out where upon I will award myself a further two.)
 
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