[time-nuts] Quartz assisted pendulum clock.

John Miles jmiles at pop.net
Fri Jan 6 07:52:14 UTC 2006


> > Sounds like the same idea as the regulator weight tray on the GE master
> > clock described on that Telechron site.  You're supposed to add/remove
> > weights from the tray until the clock is running at the desired rate.
>
> A pendulum swings at the same rate, regardless of its weight.
> The controlling
> feature is the length of the pendulum.
>

Right, or whether there's an electromagnet that gives it a push or a pull
once in awhile.

-- john, KE5FX






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