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Re: Casio G-Shock time sync radio

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Post by ilyt »

jader201 wrote: post #45
bayindirh wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My professor is a materials/mechanical engineer and in contact with many auto companies. He told me of the following dialogue: Prof: Why did you stopped adding passenger side handles? How much one cost? CarGuy: Around €1.50 Prof: That's not much? CarGuy: A new car leaves the factory every 60 seconds. Prof: Oh. For the lazy, that's €2,160/Day, €64,800/Month, €777,600/year.

I guess, but still, these seemingly large numbers are still a minute percentage (e.g. probably 0.00001%) of overall costs/revenue that are relatively way, way more. I would understand manufacturing pain, and the ROI just doesn't justify it. But saying that it's solely to do with costs doesn't line up, IMO.

Why you think manufacturers went into touch surfaces in cars much to dissatisfaction (that eventually caused some to back up) of customers?

Every button needs a bit of plastic moulded, a (good quality) button, backlight, often LED to signal whether it is on or off, and whole control block needs microcontroller to pack it into CAN bus and CAN bus connector to send.

Make whole thing a touch surface and you're saving buck or two on buttons alone and your plastics don't need to articulate (another savings).

Move that to the touchscreen controls, and as screen is already there, more savings!

Re: Casio G-Shock time sync radio

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Post by ilyt »

lN5uhiNxWPBi wrote: post #64
graypegg wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why wouldn’t cost be the sole or most important reason for cutting a non-safety, non-regulated feature? 700k in advertising would make a much bigger impact on revenue than 700k on door handles; unless people are that passionate about door handles that they go somewhere else. Even if your current advertising budget is orders of magnitude larger, the force multiplier on investing in advertising is bigger than the door…

I assume it can be hard to judge impact down the line. A lot of car manufacturers cut out physical buttons, which led for the current generation of horrible interfaces where everything is touch screen and you can’t even get a simple rotary knob for the volume. My understanding is that this is now going back and car manufacturers are reverting this decision. So yeah, why not spend the saved money on advertising? I don…

In case of buttons because of customer backlash many went back, like Honda.

Re: Casio G-Shock time sync radio

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Post by ilyt »

psychphysic wrote: post #12

If you're interested in buying a Casio watch that does this they tend to be called Waveceptor, I'd recommend looking at one that's also solar powered (tough solar).

Also show up in other series, Protreks have it for example. Althought mine is not great indoors and even outdoors needs a bit of finangling to start the sync

Re: Casio G-Shock time sync radio

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Post by ilyt »

tomduncalf wrote: post #39
1MachineElf wrote: post #21

I inherited one of these Casio Waveceptor watches from my father. It routinely will set itself to a totally random time far into the past/future. I've wondered if maybe contemporary wireless devices interfere with the time sync radio. Another possible factor is the watch itself is ~20 years old.

Maybe Casio are using a Windows server heh ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37151220 )

I also remember their NTP server being near-continously unreliable and having to change the ntp sync server on every install. I wonder if that's still an issue

Re: Casio G-Shock time sync radio

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Post by ilyt »

nabla9 wrote: post #77

I have Casio GW-M5600. It's a perfect watch. - Looks like classic G-Shock. - shows correct time always (time sync) - never runs out of battery (solar charging).

Same with my pro-trek, aside from not working all that great indoors for sync.

Apparently Garmin have some Smartwatch that actually got low enough to also be pretty much constantly on Solar only power but after owning original Pebble I kinda healed myself from smartwatch hype before the fashion for them even started...

Re: Casio G-Shock time sync radio

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Post by ilyt »

bpye wrote: post #23
ajhurliman wrote: post #3

I have a wall clock that syncs with an atomic clock in Colorado, which was cool at first but I live in Arizona now which doesn’t observe daylight savings so it’s often wrong by an hour now.

All you need is a DIP switch or something on the back to let you set the offset.

Just film it and display the video on monitor with 1h/23h delay, easy! /s

Re: Casio G-Shock time sync radio

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Post by ilyt »

2-718-281-828 wrote: post #61

not working in SEA, though :/ there are some tricks with apps synthesizing a electromagnetic radio signal via speaker activity but i never got this to work.

I used "DCF77 Emulator" on android and had to get it very close to the phone's speaker to work

Re: Casio G-Shock time sync radio

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Post by gh02t »

ilyt wrote: post #88
firewolf34 wrote: post #9

Yes, as others have stated this is an old technology. I don't really understand why this is not more common in the modern day. it's not really that expensive to implement and they did it with analog chips back in the day... Why do we have to set the time on our clock radios or on our microwaves or whatever? Why don't they just always use this Tech. I don't understand. All you have to do is allow people to store an of…

Have you...used them ? My Protrek basically doesn't sync if I'm at home, and as it tries to start sync after midnight the auto sync near-never works. I installed DCF77-emulator app on phone to get around it. My radio-synced clock works fine but comes with big (BIC lighter size but double the thickness) external antenna. Probably much worse in microwave that's somewhere inside the house and not near window > All you h…

Damn I had never thought of the possibility that you could easily battery back the clock in a microwave/oven/etc despite being fully aware that it's trivial to do. We get a ton of brownouts and I gave up on keeping the clocks set. I want it.

Re: Casio G-Shock time sync radio

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Post by vlachen »

strangattractor wrote: post #74
vlachen wrote: post #51

I wore a G-Shock Wavecepter while serving in the U.S. Marine Corps. I recall that on both of my shipboard deployments (2004 and 2006) I was very excited to have my watch set time automatically. It indicated that I was finally nearing the U.S. East Coast. It helped to be an aircraft mechanic on night crew, as I was usually on the flight deck when it tried to set time.

Have solar atomic version. Don't wear it much these days. Mostly when I travel. Been on my dresser 2 years collecting dust but gets some sun. Picked it up the other day for a camping trip. It was both charged and had the correct date and time.

My battery has given up the ghost, and it's probably in a box of stuff around here. At the time, putting a new rechargable in it was impossible. I wonder if that's changed now... Edit: Neglected to mention mine was also solar

Re: Casio G-Shock time sync radio

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Post by DeathMetal3000 »

I have the all black GW-2310FB. I’ll be honest, the gray digits on black background can be a little impractical in low light (it does have a very good backlit if you press the button). But it looks awesome and I have no regrets. Love it. And for those of you that are militant about your IDE’s dark mode, this could be the watch for you too. https://www.casio.com/us/watches/gshock/product.GW-2310FB-1/
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