On Jun 24, 7:59 pm, Wayne de Geere III wa...@degeere.com wrote:
This story is breaking my heart. For that sort of breakage, it would have
made sense to fly out there and pack them up yourselves. I have to admit, the
mea culpas i carry with me would make grown men cry, I know how this feels.
Anyone ever thought of fixing the tubes? I think the hardest part is the
seal between the pins and the glass, and if that part was still intact
(which in many cases it is, because it is the most stable glass part of
the tube), wouldn't it be possible to add a new cap to the tube? I.e.
some
Glad I live off the grid and don't use the mains for timing my clocks. I
won't notice a thing...
Jonathan
Of possible interest. A lot of my clocks use the grid as a reference.
http://goo.gl/KhgtQ
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Personally, I do not understand what the benefit is of using the mains
frequency. I always use a 4.194304MHz Quarz and so far all my clocks'
accuracies are very satisfactory.
Best regards,
Jens
Am 25.06.2011 19:57, schrieb Jonathan Peakall:
Glad I live off the grid and don't use the mains for
The mains frequency, at least here in the U.S. is always being
corrected for small variances that occur in the frequency during the
day. Therefore the overall error is none over a years time. Clocks are
therefore always accurate and never need resetting, unless of course
there is a power
Maybe you missed this earlier piece of info:-
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5giHrMC9wYlOzOkUg9wNC2jVKugkw?docId=371623ab59694aef9f0a02fe83faca8a
john k.
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From: Instrument Resources of America iracosa...@hughes.net
The mains frequency, at least
I agree. I wonder what is REALLY behind this?? Something smells
rotten with this.!!!Ira.
On 6/25/2011 6:05 AM, Joe Croft wrote:
This does suck in a lot of ways.
I like how they say it will be a lot harder to control not with things like
wind and solar. I don't see why, I suspect most
On Jun 25, 5:04 pm, Instrument Resources of America
iracosa...@hughes.net wrote:
I agree. I wonder what is REALLY behind this?? Something smells
rotten with this.!!! Ira.
Indeed. Normally the 60Hz runs low during the day and makes it up at
night. The frequency drops due to large
Hello John,
YES!! I did read it , and for the life of me I can NOT figure out
what the REAL TRUTH is behind doing this. My comment was meant to be
past tense. Thanks, Ira.
On 6/25/2011 1:45 PM, JohnK wrote:
Maybe you missed this earlier piece of info:-
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Instrument Resources of America
iracosa...@hughes.net wrote:
Hello John,
YES!! I did read it , and for the life of me I can NOT figure out what
the REAL TRUTH is behind doing this. My comment was meant to be past tense.
Thanks, Ira.
I think it's a
On 11-06-25 02:01 PM, jb-electronics wrote:
Personally, I do not understand what the benefit is of using the mains
frequency. I always use a 4.194304MHz Quarz and so far all my clocks'
accuracies are very satisfactory.
The benefit WAS that the Hydro Utilities always averaged out the
frequency
I think the original idea of grid frequency maintenance is when clocks were
purely mechanical before the digital era. They of course were just
synchronous A.C. motors that were terribly inaccurate without the
synchonization to the power grid's frequency. This also was before GPS and
A LOT of today's 'digital' clocks are still locked up to the power line
frequency, which is still the quickest, easiest, most in expensive way
of maintaining accuracy. Some are locked to either GPS or NIST 60 khz
broadcasts.Ira
On 6/25/2011 5:14 PM, neutron spin wrote:
I think the
Yes ...that was a clever and (cheap) method of creating a relatively
accurate time base but with modern technology there really is no reason to
keep this method. Of course existing designs that use the grid's
frequency are going to have to live with it. Similar to going from analog
TV
My mother in law handed me an article today about this from their local paper
and asked if my funny tube clocks are still going to work. WIth the exception
of my MOD6 clocks, I'm all GPS over here but I'd be a bit bummed that the
masters of 60Hz have unilaterally decided to screw with that to
Now we're all going to need to GPS or use an atomic time standard to discipline
our mechanical flip clocks like http://leapsecond.com/pages/atomic-nixie/
On 2011 Jun 25, at 19:14 , neutron spin wrote:
I think the original idea of grid frequency maintenance is when clocks were
purely
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Too rich for my blood!
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 7:26 AM, micha...@aol.com wrote:
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Very strange.
A batch of mine that I could on ebay (11 of
OK, It appears they DO exist! I would like to see a shot of those
mummified relics before I become a true believer. And if they prove to
be real...a $445/2 believer, I will never be!
On Jun 25, 9:55 pm, Nicholas Stock nickst...@gmail.com wrote:
How did you find them so fast after posting?
In a message dated 6/25/2011 9:55:59 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
nickst...@gmail.com writes:
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280702018540?pt=Vintage_Electronics_R2hash=item415b24e3ec#ht_1234wt_1141_
Ok, sowhat am I missing hereNOS with burn marks?? I guess most
of mine are NOS too then! Hot Diggity!! I'll be puttin' mine on the
market for $222 each tomorrow too!
On Jun 25, 9:55 pm, Nicholas Stock nickst...@gmail.com wrote:
OK, It appears they DO exist! I would like to see a shot of those
mummified relics before I become a true believer. And if they prove to
be real...a $445/2 believer, I will never be!
I have seen some more convincing NOS auctions (the tubes packed 36 per carton
in styrofoam trays).
These
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On Jun 25, 10:23 pm, micha...@aol.com wrote:
How did you find them so fast after posting?
In a message dated 6/25/2011 9:55:59 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
nickst...@gmail.com writes:
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