22 Sep
2004
22 Sep
'04
10:29 a.m.
Tony> If it is a syncronome, there are likely to
be contacts for
Tony> slave dials too
No, those are the same contacts. A synchronome has the slave dials
wired in series with the master clock contact and solenoid and the
battery. That's actually a key part of the system, allowing things to
You are, of course, correct. I was thinking of another master-slave clock
system where the pendulum was maintained by a Hipp Toggle, and there were
serparate contacts for the slave dials...
[And for a really strange system, look at the original 'Magneta'...]
-tony