There was also some discussion about the old car radios that used a coil to 'autowind' the clock every few minuets. The escapement would advance a cam and eventually allow a set of points to make contact, energizing a solenoid which would rewind the drive spring and open the points. Worked pretty good, drew a significant amount of current and after time the contacts would pit and the operation became unreliable...
I found the clock above which works on a similar principle. The escapement moves a cam that eventually allows a set of points to make contact which activates the motor. That motor drives the digital number display, rewinds the drive spring asm and resets the cam. Oddly the cam/motor/contact portion works good.. the escapement drive sucks. It can run fast, or slow depending on who knows what... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/d9af1796-3754-4ca0-b9ee-e96e3016f424%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
