[time-nuts] RE; New Wrist watch

Azelio Boriani azelio.boriani at screen.it
Wed Sep 12 09:21:48 UTC 2012


Interesting: trying to "hear" a low frequency crystal using a microphone...
it should be hard: the crystal has to make the case vibrate and this is
energy consuming (unless it resonates). I don't expect to pick up nothing,
except the step motor driving the hands.

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:

>
> > I have a $49 Casio Wave Ceptor, white face black numerals, analog hands
> > including second hand, date, alarm and WWVB syncing in the middle of the
> > night. Only had to replace the battery once and it ticks are closer than
> I
> > can discern when comparing to WWV @ 10or 15 Mhz.
>
> Has anybody "listened" to such a watch?  (with a microphone)
>
> Can you hear both the 32KHz basic timekeeping as well as the "tick" when
> the
> second hand takes a step?
>
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