Hi Teletype loop current as in 20 ma through the coil via a dropping resistor off of 125 vdc.
Bob On Jan 22, 2012, at 4:06 PM, paul swed <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
