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Hughes Module Wanted (not bothered where assembled/made)

Post25 Feb 2011, 12:35

Wanted module, marked up "Made in Scotland"
Anyone can tell me the make ?? Now established its hughes
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Post25 Feb 2011, 12:58

Looks like a Hughes to me but im not sure about the "made in Scotland bit"

Maybe you should post up a pic of the rear of the module aswell Vic ?
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Post25 Feb 2011, 14:24

It is a Hughes "Made in Scotland" (should be assembled in Scotland! by Timex in Dundee) and while at first sight you would think any Hughes module would fit be aware that about 50% of these have a slightly different layout on the plastic carrier compared to "Made in... USA, Mexico, Phillipines, Hong Kong and Taiwan" Hughes modules. This only matters when you have a watch with rear battery hatches as the hatches may not line up with the battery wells (Rotary watches are the biggest offender) and while you can pop the batteries in you cannot get them back out without dismantling the watch.
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Post25 Feb 2011, 16:51

Old Tom wrote:It is a Hughes "Made in Scotland" (should be assembled in Scotland! by Timex in Dundee) and while at first sight you would think any Hughes module would fit be aware that about 50% of these have a slightly different layout on the plastic carrier compared to "Made in... USA, Mexico, Phillipines, Hong Kong and Taiwan" Hughes modules. This only matters when you have a watch with rear battery hatches as the hatches may not line up with the battery wells (Rotary watches are the biggest offender) and while you can pop the batteries in you cannot get them back out without dismantling the watch.
I have/had a slightly different theory on those Rotary(and Sequenta, amongst others) watches where the hatches don't work out quite right - they originally had Exonix modules in them, which have the identical button layout but the battery hatches are a hair different in alignment. I've had several come to me with Exonix module in them. 1/100 stopwatch off the 7 oclock button. This watch is loaded that way....a slight turn of the back from the alignment markings before snapping on and it is an easy battery change. http://www.retroleds.com/Items/WA337.htm

I've never noticed any battery hatch location difference in Hughes carriers on 29mm modules(could be that some variant was more widely distributed in Europe, I'm in USA). 25mm Hughes do have an odd varient that has a yellow translucent carrier and a protruding location nub. Standard equipment for one of the Timex models. That Hughes/Timex connection is funny to me...Timex usually tried to make all their own stuff and ditto on Hughes. A sick love affair for sure! :lol:
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Post25 Feb 2011, 17:56

Or made in Silicon Glen.

This looks like it's been lying around for a while...try cleaning the battery contacts as they become oxidised and non-conductive, I've brought back to life lots of these modules with a simple clean.
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Post25 Feb 2011, 18:21

its not totally dead, sometimes comes up with odd numbers when you connect power sometimes nothing
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Post26 Feb 2011, 13:00

If anyone has ANY Hughes module available i recon it will go in, if not i will try modify with existing plastic carrier. THANKS !!
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Post26 Feb 2011, 14:43

Did you try cleaning everything...the battery pads should look shiny when cleaned, also the little brass contact in the negative battery well needs to make good contact with the side of the battery as this gives power to the quartz crystal, a bad contact here can show up as a single random number on the display or flickering of the whole display.

If your not confident to properly clean it post it to me and I'll do it for you.
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Post26 Feb 2011, 15:07

Thanks for your offer :-D i was working and i killed it :-(
One of the segments was not working and should have been an easy fix as the fine wire had detached and wanted to re-bond it, ended up dropping it causing damage :oops:
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Post27 Feb 2011, 06:26

horror_logic,
If no one has a Hughes module here to sell you (and I'd be very surprised if that was the case) then you can be sure to find one on e-bay. They show up quite often.
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Post27 Feb 2011, 13:11

horror_logic wrote:Thanks for your offer :-D i was working and i killed it :-(
One of the segments was not working and should have been an easy fix as the fine wire had detached and wanted to re-bond it, ended up dropping it causing damage :oops:


It's a nightmare when that happens... :-?

As mentioned EBay is the place to find one...look for a watch with the same button positions as yours, working of course.
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Post27 Feb 2011, 13:16

....thanks, just had a look but nothing on at the moment :-(

Will keep looking.
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Post02 Mar 2011, 12:34

Spare Hughes Anyone ???
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Post05 Mar 2011, 20:17

horror_logic,

Just bought a couple of lots of watches on Ebay. Some look to contain Hughes modules. Give me a few days to receive and look through them to see if there is a working match I could spare. If I do come up with something, I will pm you.
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Post06 Mar 2011, 23:51

Thanks, looking forward to hearing from you :-D
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Post24 Apr 2011, 16:42

Still looking for this module, LedNutz kindly posted one out to me and ended up lost in the post :-|

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Post25 Apr 2011, 20:31

Don't give up yet. I'm still looking for one to send off. I have a couple of cases on the way which I will test. If I have one working I will send the module in the case. This time it will be insured.
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Post25 Apr 2011, 20:57

Many thanks, you are a star :-D

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