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24th Feb 12 at 15:19

Hopefully will have a happy customer tomorrow

Whittie

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24th Feb 12 at 15:22

I didnt see this was for sale! I said let me know! Sold already?

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24th Feb 12 at 15:51

I posted in here, in classifieds and in my sig!

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24th Feb 12 at 15:52

(more to come soon though!)

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24th Feb 12 at 15:58

Ed, any plans for a battery powered one?

I'd love one to wall mount on the kitchen wall but it would have to be battery powered.

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24th Feb 12 at 16:00

There's certainly room for a load of batteries in there - would have to do some calcs and tests though as I think it runs at about 0.4 amps at 12v because of the high intensity LED's used.

Could halve the brightness though as those figures are at full whack.

Whittie

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24th Feb 12 at 16:03

quote:
Originally posted by Whittie
Let me know when you make another, I want one for the office.

When you doing the next (batch).

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24th Feb 12 at 18:13

Going to hopefully have everything sorted for them mid-March so will run the advert with the plan to deliver them in April.

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19th Mar 12 at 17:02

Here's what the production version will look like:

Will be attempting to sell a few starting second week of April (going on holiday first week!). Website will launch in about a weeks time when the photography is done, http://wordclock.co

Jambo

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19th Mar 12 at 17:03

Ed you are a man.

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19th Mar 12 at 17:04

Cheers Jambo

Think I'll launch with the dark oak coloured frame though, like the one I sold Tom a few weeks back.

[Edited on 19-03-2012 by ed]

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19th Mar 12 at 17:24

Could you lay some tinting film over to make the not lit words less obvious?

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19th Mar 12 at 17:28

Could use a grey diffuser instead of white, but it's the way I want it to look and the photo's not great soooooo...

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19th Mar 12 at 17:30

Fair enough. Whats the retail going to be on these when the site is up?

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19th Mar 12 at 17:34

£99 + ~£5 for delivery. Took a lot of work to get it to that price and it's still quite pricey! Would be able to reduce the price significantly if I were to order in the hundreds but don't have the money/capacity to do that.

Nath

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19th Mar 12 at 20:09

That looks awesome! I'm going to have to try hard to resist buying one

Neil

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19th Mar 12 at 20:19

I think it's been mentioned, but is it possible to do a battery powered one so it could be hung on the wall?

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19th Mar 12 at 20:39

Done my sums, the power consumption is too great for it to be practical - you'd have to charge it every day I guess.

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19th Mar 12 at 20:39

Here you go Neil:-

quote:
Originally posted by ed
There's certainly room for a load of batteries in there - would have to do some calcs and tests though as I think it runs at about 0.4 amps at 12v because of the high intensity LED's used.

Could halve the brightness though as those figures are at full whack.

Dom

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19th Mar 12 at 21:25

You'd have to get the power usage way down for batteries, 0.4A would be around (if my maths isn't shite) 9Ah for a days usage (40+ AA's)

Ed - Would worth looking into some form of brightness control/power saving and seeing if you can make a (usable) battery version, would certainly give you the edge over other people that sell Word Clocks (granted they tend to be double the price anyway).

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19th Mar 12 at 21:54

It's got PWM controlling brightness already, so perhaps the thing to do is use an ultrasonic sensor to detect movement and only illuminate it when someone's nearby. Could run it at 6v instead of 12v to make it more battery friendly too - the problem is that the lower power LEDs aren't really suited for backlighting so need to find something more suited than the PLCC-2 package.

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19th Mar 12 at 22:24

Solar recharge through the day?

C2RL R

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19th Mar 12 at 22:29

Didn't realise you were going into production, I'll be ordering one for sure.

James

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19th Mar 12 at 22:38