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Old 01-09-2015, 01:49 PM
Shortsguy1 Shortsguy1 is offline
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Originally Posted by ScooterABC View Post
Changing the voltage should have no effect since all the voltage is doing is winding it when it needs to be wound. It is not powering a motor.
ScooterABC is correct. I just checked my experiment and raising the power supply to 13.5V did not change the timing of the clock.

I am now going to clean and lube this clock to see if that makes a difference to its ability to keep time. I plan to use soap and water to clean per that article I linked to above and I plan to lube it with some very thin synthetic oil that I have for my mountain bike suspension fork. My hypothesis is that the clock will run faster after this, but we shall see.
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