GMT Clock

On the angled side panel of the Main Instrument Panel in the pit I will have a number of gauges set up.  One of them is the GMT clock.

I had an old ham radio 24 hour clock laying around, so I canabalized it for the pit.  The first step was to carefully bend the connection pins from the display to the pcb so that the display and circuit board could be mounted "in line" with each other and laying flat against the instrument panel.




After taking some careful measurements, I cut some standoffs, cut apart some of the old clock case to make the bezel facing and to also make a bracket to hold the display securely to the instrument panel backing.  I also then cut a hole in the side MIP facing.




Below you can see the finished clock mounted on the angled panel backing.  The bezel is glued to the other side with silicone glue (repositionable),  finishing off the rough hole I cut in the MDF with smoked "glass".




And after adding a little "always on" AC power to the clock....... below you can see that I now have a permanent GMT display in the pit.  Eventually I will add switches on the front panel that allow me to reset it from there and to set the alarm functions.



And so it goes on............

best,

........................john


PS:  This addition turns the whole simpit into the world's most expensive clock!  

This is incredible John!  Can I come over?

When I finally get through all this silly 'high school' and 'college' and I have a well paying job, Im gonna build my own simpit (most likely a pit based on a DC-3)

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Jared and Jake,

Thanks.... it is coming along slowly.  A lot of "behind the scenes" stuff happening right now....... gauges and coding and cfg file tweaks and such.

best,

......john