Our setup involved putting a PC near our old shop buzzer. There is a
scheduling program that we set up with our break/start/stop times.
There is an atomic clock program to keep the time current, a copy of
which also resides on our Vantage and other servers. There is a
relay to turn the buzzer on and off and a simple program that is
triggered by the scheduling program that sends a signal to the relay.
If you want more details let me know. My boss set most of this up
and is out of the office this week, but I could get back to you next
week.
Brian Stenglein
Clow Stamping Co.
scheduling program that we set up with our break/start/stop times.
There is an atomic clock program to keep the time current, a copy of
which also resides on our Vantage and other servers. There is a
relay to turn the buzzer on and off and a simple program that is
triggered by the scheduling program that sends a signal to the relay.
If you want more details let me know. My boss set most of this up
and is out of the office this week, but I could get back to you next
week.
Brian Stenglein
Clow Stamping Co.
--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "Todd Caughey" <caugheyt@h...> wrote:
> We have been doing this for a few years. A real kludge solution
but it has been rock solid reliable. I put a sound card in the
Vantage server, connected the speaker output to our phone system's
paging input and via Windows Scheduler play a 3 second tone WAV
file. A couple minor issues at startup....paging system needed a
small filter device to prevent feedback form the paging through the
soundcard (garbled pages a little bit) and we still have the issue of
pages overriding the signal if they are exactly at the same time
(tone is input via the "music" input). The server then has an
automatic time update that references an atomic clock source so it is
always within some fraction of a second of perfect time. Oh, one
other thing....turn off ALL sound inputs (like from CDs and such) to
the soundcard - or else strange noises will be on the plant
speakers. ;)
>
> The supervisors love it. No more having employee arbitrage the
difference between the signal and Vantage time.
>
> Contact me off-list and I can send all the details and some
freeware programs I use.
>
> -Todd C.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kevin [mailto:kevin@c...]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 9:16 AM
> To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Vantage] OT: pc controlled plantwide bell ringing
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering what yall use if anything to sync the vantage
server time to
> the bell system?
>
> right now we have a standalone bell system and every so often they
need to
> be reset ( which IMO is no big deal ), but recently it seems the
supervisors
> and foremen seem to have a problem with the occasional 1 minute out
of sync
> issue
>
> so to make this short:
>
> does anyone use or know of a pc controlled plant wide bell ringind
> app/system that I could add to ring exactly per the vantage server
time?
>
> all suggestions are welcome and appreciated
>
> vantage 6.0
> windows based network
>
>
>
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