Joe-

You might be on to a good idea. If I could use a pair of optical sensors to 
watch the escapement wheel when winding, then I could count any movement in 
either direction or no movement at all and know how much to slew the timing 
pulses say over the next hour or two to get the clock back on time.

The nice thing is I can clip the opto sensors and remove them just as quickly 
with no change to the mechanism itself.

Again...what a great bunch the Time Nut crowd is!


-Brian, WA1ZMS/4
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On Jan 31, 2014, at 4:00 PM, Joe Leikhim <[email protected]> wrote:

> Count the period where the counterweight is disconnected from the movement 
> using a microswitch and then program the controller to speed up the clock to 
> make up the difference until the next time the clock needs to be rewound.
> 
> Sort of like the way my bank just recalculated my escrow fund:-)
> 
> -- 
> Joe Leikhim
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