I adjust the settings in mine to turn on at 17:00 (5pm) and run 8 hours until 1am. If I have an event or party, I just disable the on and off settings temporarily.

Mine is always on. It's been running problem free for months.

Which setting is this?

Sleep Timer --> 8 hours

Wake Up Timer --> 17:00

This turns the clock on at 17:00 (5pm) and lets it run for 8 hours. Typically the day before a party or event, I will go into the settings and set both to DISABLE. This will keep the unit on 24/7.

I have mine connected to a remote plug switch. I walk into my game room press #2 and my clock comes on. Before I leave I just turn it off.

Got the email for the Facebook page today and instantly liked it. Great idea.

When it's all said and done, how much do you have into this, assuming you're building it yourself.

Your best case if you already have some of the parts is about $150. A full clock with the bigger displays, frame and hardware between $300 and $400. You might say $400 for a clock! No way. Oh Yes way. It's amazing.

Thanks a lot, I'm going to give it a try.

Here is what it cost me to build it myself.
Run DMD, Expansion Board & Remote - 198.72
Foreign Transaction Fee - 5.36
DMD Panels, Power Supply, Extension Cord - 75.45
Frame with Expansion Board Hardware - 100.50
Total - 380.03

Here's a couple of clocks I've built so you can see size perspectives.
- Top: Dual color larger panel without a frame. It'll look better when I get a frame built and covering the front. I have some ideas that I'll execute on in the following days. It's not as traditional plasma dmd yellow as I'd like. It looks more like a florescent green. If I were buying the panels again I may go with just plain red since it'll save a few bucks.
- Middle: Dual color medium panels with a j_m_ frame. This is the one that most everyone has seen around.
- Bottom: Stern LED panel taken from my Metallica when installing a ColorDMD. I'm working on a frame design for that one as well. It's already partially installed.
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I've figured out how to use HUB75 RGB panels with this. These seem to be much more available, and higher quality than the HUB08 panels. The ones I used are available here:
http://goo.gl/M0aXGh
You can wire the R and G output of the Run-DMD to any two of the RGB inputs on the HUB75 panels, giving a choice of 6 colors. (Red, green, blue, yellow, cyan, magenta)
The HUB75 pinout is different from HUB08, (See diagram-this is looking down at the board, and note the position of the notch) and a converter is needed. I didn't have the materials to build a converter board, so I just inserted 20AWG solid wire into the connectors on the ribbon cable for the displays. (An extra cable will be needed)
I also found I needed to ground the unused color input for the display panel, as I was getting flickering of the unconnected color.

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Got my big clock partially into a frame. Was hoping with the tint that it would be less green. I have to admit it still looks great even when it's green. I still prefer a real yellow and secondly Red. With the tint it seems actually more green instead. I guess when I do the final assembly in the next couple of days after the last couple of parts arrive I will make it just red... . The backboard is going to have my gameroom logo etched into it at the bottom (currently clear) and it'll be edge lit off the EXP ONE. Should look amazing.

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What displays and power supplies are you guys using to make those big clocks. They look great.

These are the displays shown.
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/P7-62-SMD-RG-dual-color-led-display-module-Indoor-semi-outdoor-488-244mm-64-32pixel/32482367594.html

Based on the look of the yellow I would probably get these instead next time although they may be discontinuing this part from the listing.
http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/P7-62-Red-Color-Indoor-dot-matrix-488mm-244mm-LED-Display-module-High-resolution-64-32pixels/110573_1266980020.html

I've noticed that the RTC at boot time shows the temperature. Any chance of getting the option of adding that periodically displayed? Looks like the hardware is already there.

Can someone PMm the info to get the animation files? must be having a brain cramp as I can't seem to find it.

Thanks in advance

NM, I found the link. Thanks anyways.

EDIT: never mind, I had selected "plasma" instead of LED. This is what you'll see if you've done that accidentally:

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I have a feature request. I love the clock, and I love the animations, but not at the same time. I'd like to be able to disable the clock digits while any animation is running.

Has anyone else measured power with the Stern LED-DMD? I'm getting an incredible 1.5-2 watts on my Kill-a-Watt. Which is less than $4 to run it 365/24/7.

^^ either he anticipated my request, or that's some super-fast service!

No temperature

Both of those are NLA. Would this be a good alternative?:

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Free-shipping-Leeman-Single-Color-Bicolor-RGB-P7-62-P10-P20-LED-Module-Red-White-32x16/32288335579.html

My big clock is done. Looks amazing

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I think a p10 would require a huge space and you'd have to be pretty far to appreciate it. Regardless it doesn't appear to be the right display standard. The p7s I have are almost too far apart. I'll see if I can find a good large hub08 alternative and post my search results.

This appears to be a good alternative.
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/P7-62-indoor-Red-Color-1R-488mm-244mm-LED-matrix-module-LED-Display-Sign-High-resolution/507236983.html?spm=2114.01010208.3.17.iCyAur&ws_ab_test=searchweb201556_1,searchweb201644_2_505_506_503_504_502_10014_10001_10002_10017_10010_10005_10011_10006_10003_10004_10009_10008,searchweb201560_8,searchweb1451318400_-1,searchweb1451318411_6449&btsid=db832331-73d1-4abf-a960-63c1294a842e

Here's another.
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/P7-62-F5-0-Red-color-indoor-semi-outdoor-SMD-LED-module-488-244mm-64-32pixel/32588433453.html?spm=2114.01010208.3.83.iCyAur&ws_ab_test=searchweb201556_1,searchweb201644_2_505_506_503_504_502_10014_10001_10002_10017_10010_10005_10011_10006_10003_10004_10009_10008,searchweb201560_8,searchweb1451318400_-1,searchweb1451318411_6449&btsid=db832331-73d1-4abf-a960-63c1294a842e

And another for a bulk order:
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Wholesale-F5-0-P7-62-Red-Color-Indoor-dot-matrix-488mm-244mm-LED-Display-module-High/1921043971.html?spm=2114.01010208.3.140.iCyAur&ws_ab_test=searchweb201556_1,searchweb201644_2_505_506_503_504_502_10014_10001_10002_10017_10010_10005_10011_10006_10003_10004_10009_10008,searchweb201560_8,searchweb1451318400_-1,searchweb1451318411_6449&btsid=db832331-73d1-4abf-a960-63c1294a842e

There were a couple more as well...

Nice work, ddebuss. I'm glad you decided to put the etched sign behind/below the DMD, looks much better. What I love about the big display is how consistent it looks. And cheaper than a Stern DMD!

Finally did something with my Run-DMD.

I 'upcycled' an old milk crate that's been in the garage for years. A little rough 'n' ready but fine as a proof of concept. I don't think it will stay precariously balanced up there for long.

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Does anyone know of a eprom programer that can also program the MCU chips for the clock? I was looking at the Gq-4x eprom programer but I'm not sure it can be used to upgrade the MCU chip on the rundmd clock.

Per a request I received via PM. Here's my jumbo clock unlit. I'm going to redo the tinting on the front panel with a different type of even a tinted acrylic if I make any more of them. I have a source (thanks Schwaggs) for the tinted stuff but it's a 4' x 8' sheet so it'll need to be used to make several.

Lights On - No Flash Run-Dmd Jumbo click - Lights On - No Flash

Lights Off - With Flash Run-Dmd Jumbo click - Lights Off - With Flash

wow, this product is so cool, can't believe I never saw it before last week. Now that I have my 2nd one on order I will had 2 awesome clocks in my house. My girl even thinks its fun just to watch the clock for 1/2 hour at a time. Highly recommend this to every pinball lover

Thought I'd post a couple of pictures of my latest clock builds with custom laser cut frames. Pictured are 2 examples. The lower is a 3 layer (front Red tint, middle Gray Tint, and back Gray tint). The upper is a 2 layer (middle Gray tint and back Red Tint) with a piece of gray tint overlaying part of it. Somehow the camera makes the LED modules look a lot lighter and it is. Another option for the 2 layer is a front and back. The middle layer is just behind the front layer covering the Stern DMD PCB. I have a bamboo middle and back on order. I will put either a clear or light gray tint on the front...

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Is the pico for sale yet?

ddebuss:
its all about size with you, isn't it?

don't you know that the new 'big' is 'small'?
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I'm in, just bought all the parts and ordered the frame.
This is going to EPIC ! ! !

Good for you. Ordering the parts and putting it together is most of the fun.

When you finally plug it in and the DMD lights up, you are absolutely within your rights to do a victory dance

Any news on the rumored OLED version? Would make a nice desk clock!

Got my Boards today (Edge + Temp board)!!! Those came amazingly quick, now I'm just waiting on my panels.

for anyone located here in the states, I can offer pic chips with the latest firmware. the price is $12 shipped. if you send me your old pic chip back, I will credit you $5

the current firmware is 3.48

here are a list of the updates that have occurred to the firmware since the dec 2015:
3.30 2015-12-05 New menu option "TOOLS"/"REBOOT"
Fix: Enabling/Disabling all or group of animations could corrupt data on some SD-card when using a HUB08 DMD
Displays progress when enabling/disabling multiple animations

3.31 2015-12-10 New clock styles "CELEBRATION" and "PIRATE"

3.40 2016-01-03 New option "DMD CONTRAST" (HUB08 and Pinball LED DMDs)
Support for Run-DMD EDGE (RevG)
New menu option "TOOLS"/"DMD DETECT"
Detects and reports communication bus errors with RTC or EXP board at boot

3.41 2016-02-17 Wake up timer setting is now AM/PM time format aware
New option "CLOCK OVERLAY" in menu "ANIMATIONS" to control if/how clock should be displayed during animations

3.42 2016-02-20 Fix: Slow animations/menu system using HUB08 DMDs with firmware v3.41

3.45 2016-02-21 New feature: "KEY TEXT" allows for two selectable custom text messages to be displayed instead of current time
Fix: Between animations Run-DMD could be less responsive to buttons being pressed
Fix: If only one animation is enabled the clock seconds dots could stop blinking
Fix: Option "CLOCK OVERLAY"="ON" would cause the small clock to be incorrectly displayed during some animations

3.46 2016-03-15 Fix: Custom message text displays time instead of entered text
Fix: "CUSTOM MESSAGE" and "KEY TEXT" displays incorrect texts when both enabled
Fix: Custom message / key texts not cleared by SD card initialization process
Current time and system temperature can be inserted in custom message / key text
Support for "EXP TEMP"

3.47 2016-04-01 DMD "HUB08-X" names changed to generic "TYPE-X" due to HUB75 support on Run-DMD RevM PCBs

3.48 2016-04-29 Selectable temperature scale (Celsius/Fahrenheit/Kelvin)
Configurable temperature display positions
Adjusted entry of temperature sensors (T1T2) in custom message / key texts

pm me for details with the subject line "run-dmd pic update"