Just a thought, as I have no experience with mechanical clocks. Couple your atomic clock 1pps signal to a mechanism that weakly mechanically couples to your chronometer spring-mass-escapement system in some way (assuming 1 tick per second natural frequency for your chronometer). Rely on the entrainment phenomenon to synchronize the mechanical clock to the electrical signal.
Cheers! ________________________________ From: time-nuts <[email protected]> on behalf of Tom Bales <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2020 4:49 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [time-nuts] Cesium Mechanical Chronometer > > And now for something completely different: I am working on a quixotic > project to control a standard, detent-escapement marine chronometer (e.g., > Hamilton 21) with a CSAC cesium atomic clock module. Yes, I know this > makes no sense--but, then, we're timenuts. I want the mechanical > chronometer to function normally if the CSAC signal, presumably a 1pps > pulse, is lost. The CSAC will be GPS disciplined, so during normal > operation, with an operating GPS constellation, the time is referenced to > UTC via GPS; if GPS is lost, then the CSAC takes over and its 1pps signal > drives the chronometer; if all electronics are lost, the chronometer hangs > in as a mechanical chronometer. Has anyone any experience with > electrically controlling (or disciplining) a marine chronometer? > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there.
