[time-nuts] Regulating a pendulum clock

Don Latham djl at montana.com
Sun Aug 8 22:28:52 UTC 2010


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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