Nice pixs I would think that the setting winding would be of the old teletype loop voltage and current and that the local winding battery as mentioned would have been 3-6 VDC. Nice looking clock lucky you to find such an instrument. Regards Paul.
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Jim Hickstein <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2012/01/22 13:58, Jim Hickstein wrote: > >> On 1/22/12 1:56 PM, paul swed wrote: >> >>> Yahoo for real voltage power and current. Teletype style. >>> Yes indeed the old loop currents seriously worked. >>> No AA batteries here. ;-) >>> >> > How far will I get with my 3 D cells? They make it wind nicely, but I've > been afraid to try 6V, having read somewhere (probably Brooke's pages) not > to exceed 3V lest one damage something. Then again, that's the local > battery, not the setting signal. (No. 6 dry cell? Dear me, I hadn't even > thought of one of those for 40 years.) > > When will we see a pix of this unit?? >>> >> >> It's my day off. :-) >> > > Then again, what's a day off for, if not this kind of thing? > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/**jxh1/tags/clock/<http://www.flickr.com/photos/jxh1/tags/clock/> > > Brooke Clarke's pix are nice, but I think I have the nicest SWCC clock out > there, one of the nicest I've seen. Coincidentally, I bought it in about > 1986 from a fellow named Clark (last name I don't recall), who was a member > of the Minnesota horological society, or whatever it's called. A friend of > mine, another member, put me on to this, and I jumped at it. (Actually, he > has an even nicer one, a big Air Force unit IIRC that's about 6 feet tall, > and with a mercury pendulum bob.) Took the thing back home to California, > and it came with me when I moved back to Minnesota in 2003. It's been the > primary time display in my house since I got it. I also still keep the > Textronix carton I scrounged, that's a perfect fit, for moving it. > > -Jim > K6JXH/0 > > ______________________________**_________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/** > mailman/listinfo/time-nuts<https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts> > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
