STAR TREK: TNG LCD CLOCK

Star Trek: TNG LCD Clock, retail $TBA
Manufactured by (Unknown)
Last updated 08-30-10




This is a small desk clock that looks like a communicator badge from the television program Star Trek: The Next Generation.

It features an LCD (liquid crystal display), can display the time (hours, minutes, and seconds) plus the day & date. And it has a folding stand on the back that allows it to be stood up stably on a flat surface like a desk or table.


SIZE



To set the time & date:

Press the leftmost button once. The month will be flashing. Press & release the rightmost button one or more times to set the month from 1 to 12.

Press the leftmost button again to get the day flashing. Press & release the rightmost button one or more times to set the day from 1 to 31.

Press the leftmost button again to get the hour flashing. Press & release the rightmost button one or more times to set the hour from 1 to 12; an "A" or "P" will be following the hour to signify AM and PM.

Press the leftmost button again to get the minutes flashing. Press & release the rightmost button one or more times to set the minute from 00 to 59.

Press the leftmost button just once more to allow the product to display the time properly.



To install the one AG-3 button cell (or to change it when it poops out if it already comes with one installed), remove the back plate by unscrewing & removing the two phillips screws with a medium phillips screwdriver. Launch them toward Tau Alpha C*...O WAIT!!! YOU'LL NEED THOSE!!! So just set them aside instead.

You'll see a small clock movement with a metal plate covering a significant portion of it. Remove the clock movement from the case, and place it somewhere flat. Unscrew & remove the two teeny tiny phillips screws using a very small phillips screwdriver (the #0 with a 1.40mm shaft diameter from my set of jeweller's screwdrivers did the trick here. Slide the metal plate away and set that aside too.

Remove the used AG3 button cell, and dispose of or recycle it as you see fit.

Place a new AG3 button cell into the compartment, orienting it so that its button-end (-) negative faces downward.

Slide the metal piece back on, orienting it so that the side with the two springy tabs faces the side of the clock movement with the display on it.

Screw in those two itty bitty screws, and place the clock movement back into the case, orienting it so that the part with the two metal tabs on it faces the two buttons on the case.

Place the back of the case on, and insert & tighten the two larger screws.

You'll need to set the time & date again at this point.
Aren't you glad you didn't launch that back plate and two screws to Tau Alpha C now?


Here is what a praying mantis looks like.
I found this guy on the morning of 09-08-06 clinging to the basket of my scooter.



The Star Trek: TNG LCD Clock is not waterproof or drop-resistant; it was meant to be put somewhere and not {vulgar term for having had intercourse} with, not a flashlight meant to be bashed, trashed, thrashed, and abused. So I won't throw it against the wall, stomp on it, try to drown it in the {vulgar term for feces}bowl or the cistern, run over it, swing it against the concrete floor of a patio, use a sledgehammer to bash it open in order to check it for candiosity, fire it from the cannoņata (I guess I've been watching the TV program "Viva Piņata" too much again - candiosity is usually checked with a laser-type device on a platform with a large readout, a handheld wand that Langston Lickatoad uses, or a pack-of-cards-sized instrument that Fergy Fudgehog uses; and the cannoņata is only used to fire piņatas to piņata parties away from picturesque Piņata Island), send it to the Daystrom Institute for additional analysis, or inflict upon it punishments that a flashlight may have inflicted upon it.

So this section of the Star Trek: TNG LCD Clock's web page will seem ***SIGNIFICANTLY*** more bare than this section of the web page on the web page about a flashlight.



Photograph of the front.




This is a video on YourTube showing the unit in operation.
O BOY!!! A TICKING CLOCK!!!
At least you can see the colon blinking off & on.

As you can see, the rightmost button is missing; it fell off and disappeared before I shot
this video while I was disassembling the product to describe the battery changing procedure.

(Edit, later the same evening): FOUND IT!!! The button was promptly reinstalled.

This clip is approximately 11.77677845345 megabytes (11,939,594 bytes) in length; dial-up users please be aware.
It will take no less than fifty eight minutes to load at 48.0Kbps.








TEST NOTES:
Test unit was obtained at a totally unknown time from an unknown vendor.


* A very distant planet from the Star Trek: TNG episodes "Where No One has Gone Before", "Remember Me?", and "Journey's End" -- this is where the enigmatic & cool alien known as "the traveller" is from.


UPDATE: 00-00-00






PROS:
Great if you're a Trekker (major league Star Trek fan)



CONS:
Not waterproof or submersible, but most clocks aren't


    MANUFACTURER: Unknown
    PRODUCT TYPE: Digital LCD clock
    LAMP TYPE: N/A
    No. OF LAMPS: N/A
    BEAM TYPE: N/A
    SWITCH TYPE: Momentary pushbuttons on front surface
    CASE MATERIAL: Plastic
    BEZEL: Transparent plastic window protects LCD
    BATTERY: 1x AG3 button cell
    CURRENT CONSUMPTION: Unknown/unable to measure
    WATER- AND URANATION-RESISTANT: No
    SUBMERSIBLE: NO WAY HOZAY!!!
    ACCESSORIES: Possibly a battery
    SIZE: 70mm W x 73mm H x 12.50mm D
    COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: China
    WARRANTY: Unknown/TBA

    PRODUCT RATING:

    Because this product is not intended to emit
    light, the standard "star" rating will not be used.





Star Trek: TNG LCD Clock *






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