Hold Mode to the Rescue

NCE will do that for you as well

If you're using the fast clock on an NCE system you can pause it also. It's several button presses instead of just one, but it works.

Not a new feature

I don't know of any fast clocks that don't have a "Stop" or "Hold" button or switch.  Most a set to the required start time and held there until the session starts.  Pausing to allow for screw-ups is a no brainer.

Thank you, Rick and George,

Thank you, Rick and George, for pointing that out.  You are absolutely right that a fast clock hold mode is not unique among fast clock products.  It is simply one of the many features of our clocks - look for more highlights of these in future posts.

Now a question to current fast clock owners...  what do you like best about your current system?  What things might you change if you could?

Michael

What I want in a fast clock

 When I am operating and find the need to know  the time I instinctively look at my watch! Other that that one brief moment when the real time syncs up with fast time, it is of no use whatsoever.

I need a system that instead of mounted displays comes with several watches that will display the fast time. A big order I know, but hey, you asked.    ; )

Fast Time Watches

That's actually a really interesting idea, Rick.  Thanks!  I'll have to ponder that one.

An app for that?

Won't be long.

Make the watch look like a Hamilton 992B...

Make the watch look like a venerable Hamilton 992B railroader's pocket watch and I'd be interested...

...especially if it didn't carry the $500+ price tag of an Apple product.

I'm with Fritz on this one

No way am I shelling out real money for an Apple watch, plus the IPhone you need to make it work.

Having access to some reasonably priced "fast time watches", however, would be of interest to me

'seems to me that...

...Iowa Scaled Engineering would have a natural head start on a fast clock watch, compared to the offerings from other fast clock suppliers, since ISE already has the wireless bit down pat.

The big question would be the cost of making a sufficiently small battery-powered clock receiver with a smaller display and then putting it into a watch case. Especially given the microscopic market (relative to most consumer electronics markets) that the target audience represents.

Hamilton Wrist Watch

A few months ago I was in Borsheim's jewelry store waiting for the service technician to replace the battery in a relatively expensive watch.  I was loitering near the huge counter where men's watches were displayed and spotted a very plain Hamilton wristwatch.

The young salesman, perhaps in his 20's, asked if I'd like to see the watch. As I tried it on, he described it as a "purely mechanical" watch and asked me if I knew how to properly wind it. Thinking there may be some special technique I returned the watch so he could demonstrate. Of course, he just wound the watch, carefully describing how you feel for the increased tension to determine when to stop.

I forgot he was in his 20's and winding a watch was probably a new and mysterious process for him. He had probably never seen a watch that needed to be wound before he came to work at the jewelry store.

By the way the watch face is simple, very legible and has a small date window. The price was about the same as the least expensive Apple watch. Of course, I'll eventually leave this watch to one my heirs, and they may do the same. The Apple watch will be an obsolete curiosity in a couple of years.

I figure in about 20 years it'll pay for itself by not needing batteries.  You can rationalize pretty much anything if you put your mind to it.

gs

Its already here...

There is an app for that already. I have a Fast Clock app on my iPhone, and that's easier to me than having to remember to bring a wrist watch. The phone is with me all the time already. It also has a pause feature. I never wear a watch, my phone is my watch.  

Randy