[time-nuts] Regulating a pendulum clock

Bruce Griffiths bruce.griffiths at xtra.co.nz
Sun Aug 8 22:47:53 UTC 2010


No protection against external shorts or other undesired events.
Extensive analog filtering to avoid creating an effective radiator of 
noise may also be necessary.
Simple analog techniques are probably simpler/cheaper once the necessary 
filtering and protection are included.

Bruce

Don Latham wrote:
> Hmmm lemme see. I think I'd use a 12 volt supply and two transistors
> driven by two outputs on my Arduino,basic stamp,picaxe or other whizzie.
> I'd then implement a PID controller essentially using the 1 sec pulse from
> the pendulum and the 1 sec pulse from my Rb, satellite receiver, crystal
> clock, or whatever. The appropriate output pin will be brought to ground,
> and the other driven as a pdf with the rate given by the pid loop.
> Temperature and even pressure corrections can be applied within the gizzie
> software. External parts, minimum. Opportunity to play with tuning,
> maximum.
> Don
>
> Bruce Griffiths
>    
>> J. Forster wrote:
>>      
>>> You are picking very unimportant nits.
>>>
>>> If there were a small noise spike from the opamp, it'd goose the
>>> pendulum
>>> a tiny amount. That would be corrected on the next swing.
>>>
>>>        
>> Heuristic analysis of this type is counter productive.
>>
>>      
>>> You are turning a trip to the corner store into an Apollo Moon Mission.
>>>
>>>        
>> Reliability is paramount in a circuit that may be required to work for
>> decades.
>>
>>      
>>> BTW, since the =drive does not to be bipolar, one of the NPN and PNP
>>> transistors can be deleted. They never turn on. So you are left with two
>>> opamsa, =each with a simple emitter follower.
>>>
>>>        
>> The original request was for a bipolar drive.
>> The lack of short circuit protection is poor design practice when
>> driving an external load.
>>
>>      
>>> -John
>>>
>>> ==============
>>>
>>>        
>> Bruce
>>
>>
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