Hello,
Im a new guy to PULSAR LED watches, although I helped work on the HUGHES AIRCRAFT hybrid designs out of Fullerton and Newport Beach California back in the Reagon era.
As I age, Ive become more nastalgic and thus Ive indulged into a couple of collection hobbies. They are:
1. WW1 and WW2 aviation (including avionics, flight gear, and some time pieces) and a few weapons.
2. Watches. This started out just being cockpit clocks (Jap Zero, Me109, B17, pilots watches too). Then it moved to modern military watches. I like the black ones with the rotating sliderules. Just like them as Im big into flight simulation, mostly combat online with other guys like myself.
3. Just recently I bought my first LED watch from Ebay, a MICROSONIC with a HAC module. I used to have an original HAC employee first generation LED watch, but I cannot find it right now, its packed away somewheres. So this MICROSONIC/HAC watch was my entry level LED watch that uses a HUGHES AIRCRAFT CO module - my old company.
Well, it was buggy, so I found this LED watch guru named ED. He worked on mine and eventually sold me a TIFFANY lens and type2 HAC module because mine was still temperature sensitive and the time digits would partially display.
One thing LED to another...
And I bought my first James Bond style P2 PULSAR in excellent condition from ED. I fell in love, as much as a grown man can with an electronic gadget... remember Im an electrical engineer so I like geeky stuff. Being the same style as James Bond, and that cool magnet style for programming the time. How cool is that? Style wise its still a good looker.
And you cant have just one potato chip or cookie, right?
So, I bought my Sport 3502-2 from BARB (Mike) like everyone else on Ebay. Its very sleek and I intend to wear this one, hopefully its water proof or resistant? (with capacitive reed switches Im guess it cannot) Funny that its a SPORT watch but cannot get too wet... whats the scoop?
The LEDs are 1/2 as bright on the 3502 as with the P2 James Bond Pulsar. That has me a bit concerned. Is that common?
Anyways, Im praddled on long enough and Ill post a picture of them both soon. Just wanted to intro myself and would love to hear more about these Pulsars from you long timers.
I was also wondering if it might be worth while to start a forum thread where we all post our model type, serial numbers and pictures if we have them to share. THis way we can document and make a data base that can be used for comparison and discussion.
For starters...
P2 James Bond: #130104
P4 3502-2 Sport: #768935
Thomas AV8R,
Shaken, not stirred...
Im a new guy to PULSAR LED watches, although I helped work on the HUGHES AIRCRAFT hybrid designs out of Fullerton and Newport Beach California back in the Reagon era.
As I age, Ive become more nastalgic and thus Ive indulged into a couple of collection hobbies. They are:
1. WW1 and WW2 aviation (including avionics, flight gear, and some time pieces) and a few weapons.
2. Watches. This started out just being cockpit clocks (Jap Zero, Me109, B17, pilots watches too). Then it moved to modern military watches. I like the black ones with the rotating sliderules. Just like them as Im big into flight simulation, mostly combat online with other guys like myself.
3. Just recently I bought my first LED watch from Ebay, a MICROSONIC with a HAC module. I used to have an original HAC employee first generation LED watch, but I cannot find it right now, its packed away somewheres. So this MICROSONIC/HAC watch was my entry level LED watch that uses a HUGHES AIRCRAFT CO module - my old company.
Well, it was buggy, so I found this LED watch guru named ED. He worked on mine and eventually sold me a TIFFANY lens and type2 HAC module because mine was still temperature sensitive and the time digits would partially display.
One thing LED to another...
And I bought my first James Bond style P2 PULSAR in excellent condition from ED. I fell in love, as much as a grown man can with an electronic gadget... remember Im an electrical engineer so I like geeky stuff. Being the same style as James Bond, and that cool magnet style for programming the time. How cool is that? Style wise its still a good looker.
And you cant have just one potato chip or cookie, right?
So, I bought my Sport 3502-2 from BARB (Mike) like everyone else on Ebay. Its very sleek and I intend to wear this one, hopefully its water proof or resistant? (with capacitive reed switches Im guess it cannot) Funny that its a SPORT watch but cannot get too wet... whats the scoop?
The LEDs are 1/2 as bright on the 3502 as with the P2 James Bond Pulsar. That has me a bit concerned. Is that common?
Anyways, Im praddled on long enough and Ill post a picture of them both soon. Just wanted to intro myself and would love to hear more about these Pulsars from you long timers.
I was also wondering if it might be worth while to start a forum thread where we all post our model type, serial numbers and pictures if we have them to share. THis way we can document and make a data base that can be used for comparison and discussion.
For starters...
P2 James Bond: #130104
P4 3502-2 Sport: #768935
Thomas AV8R,
Shaken, not stirred...
Last edited by AV8R on 04 Jul 2007, 15:51, edited 1 time in total.