Swim Nerd Alert! Advice for timing consoles/digital clocks

At our Y, we have the old-fashioned analog pace clocks, which can be a bit hard to see when your goggles get fogged up during practice. But we also have a 6-lane Daktronics digital timing scoreboard with timing pads, etc., but it's only used for meets. I am hoping that some engineering types out there might provide answers for the following questions: Do any reputable vendors make an inexpensive timing console that would work with our scoreboard and let us run the normal clock function in one of the scoreboard lanes? Obviously, our $1500 Daktronics console will do this, but the aquatics director was told to remove the console from the pool deck after meets because the humidity of the pool environment is really hard on electronics. Is there something cheap that we could use as an alternative? If not, does anyone have experience with portable digital pace clocks? Again, the Daktronics and Colorado Timing Systems and similar corporate Big Boys make deluxe customizable versions of these that allow for all kinds of neat little tricks, but alas they tend to cost in the >$1000 range. We don't need all the bells and whistles. All we need is an easy to see, digital clock that our team can afford. Any recommendations? Thanks!
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  • Jim, If you have been to the Ft. Lauderdale Hall of Fame pool they have a VERY large digital display on their scoreboard that can be seen by swimmers in Jacksonville! What about a portable digital display clock. I don't know what they cost, but my guess is you could get two for $1000. Or find out what it would cost for a hard wired digital clock on the wall and raise money just for that. I would throw in a few bucks to help you out.
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  • Jim, If you have been to the Ft. Lauderdale Hall of Fame pool they have a VERY large digital display on their scoreboard that can be seen by swimmers in Jacksonville! What about a portable digital display clock. I don't know what they cost, but my guess is you could get two for $1000. Or find out what it would cost for a hard wired digital clock on the wall and raise money just for that. I would throw in a few bucks to help you out.
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