On 2015-10-17 Adam Thompson wrote:
Neat... And no @#$%! way am I going to spend that much time soldering together a clock, even if it was only $5. A not-overly-accurate-clock, at that!
Think of it as a model plane or car we all (I'm sure) built as children. I would spend weeks on those.
(Not sure what's more toxic, breathing in plastic cement glue fumes or solder fumes...)
However, as noted in the details, there's a 120VAC-to-9VAC wall
Ah, I didn't read that far. Good to see he's not leaving 120V exposed. I had guessed that since he was using AC as a timer that he wouldn't be able to use a wart as the conversion to DC would lose the effect: but I see he's cheating by going AC->AC, and then DC'ing the 9V on the PCB. Well, ok, I'm assuming the logic he's built up is based on DC! (Maybe I shouldn't assume anything else about his project...)