[time-nuts] Odd request

Mark Amos mark.amos at toast.net
Thu Jan 25 16:50:46 EST 2007


Time-nuts

I appreciate the comments regarding horological obsession.  Mine started with a desire for an accurate master 
oscillator for my ham shack (built and use a couple Shera GPSDO's) and has blossomed into a much broader interest 
in time (Ex tempus, sapientia?)  

This has led me to a silly quest.  I'd like to use a traditional clock face and hands as an output device for a 
1PPS signal from my GPSDO.

I know this is a very broad question, but does anyone have advice on where I might start hacking (or making) a 
mechanical clock face to accomplish this? Is there a simple clock design that I could start with to build my own? 
Maybe replacing a pendulum or escapement with a solenoid?  Any examples to work from?

Mark






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