On 1/19/14 9:17 AM, Chuck Harris wrote:
The usual quartz clock that runs off of a AA cell is a little
trickier to drive than you might think. You need to feed
its stepper motor coil with an alternating +1.5V and -1.5V pulse.
The pulse follows the rising or trailing edge of a 1/2 Hz square
wave. I have driven them using a series capacitor and resistor
to ground...arranged as a differentiator, but I don't recall the
part values anymore.
You arduino could certainly be made to generate such a pulse using
a couple of resistors and a couple of digital outputs in a simple
DAC sort of circuit.
Yeah.. that *is* the challenge.
Use two outputs and make a sort of "H bridge"
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