Hi The one's I have seen are indeed set up for single direction. That doesn't mean there isn't a way to trick them. I've not dug into the specifics since the mid 70's.
Bob On May 12, 2013, at 10:17 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <[email protected]> wrote: > In message <[email protected]>, Bob Camp writes: > >> I really think that a bi-directional drive on the thing would be the way to >> go. Let the seconds go forward and back > > Such clock mechanisms are basically stepper-motors. However, they may > be two-pole which are mechanically restricted so they can go only > one direction. > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ 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.
