Hi >From what I’ve seen, if you are after a large wall clock with mechanical hands >on it, you already have the top of the line. There are others out there. The >ones I’ve seen or tried are no better than what you already have. Many of them >are worse...
Yes, that’s sad. They are designed to hit a price point. Bob On Feb 23, 2014, at 3:56 PM, Steve <[email protected]> wrote: > I have several "atomic" clocks in my home -- the consumer type which syncs up > with WWVB. The ones I have happen to be manufactured by LaCrosse. They are > analog clocks with hour, minute and second hands. They can be erratic. > > Last year I had to remove the face from one of them and manually reset the > second hand. Now another one's battery ran down and I replaced it, but after > replacing the battery the second hand won't sync up. And once in a while the > second hand will stop and go one second backward! And another clock would not > run at all with a new battery, so I hooked it up to the bench power supply > and it worked as expected. Put a battery in it and it took off and is still > going! > > I see other brands on the internet. Do other brands exhibit the occasional > goofy behavior? Anyone have experience with these clocks to suggest which > manufacturers produce less flaky clocks? I think I'd pay more money for a > better clock to get away from the vagaries of LaCrosse. > > Thanks. > > Steve, K8JQ > _______________________________________________ > 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.
