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Date:         Mon, 3 Apr 2000 07:51:35 -0700
Reply-To:     "Michael A. Radtke" <m.radtke@ELM.AZ05.BULL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         "Michael A. Radtke" <m.radtke@ELM.AZ05.BULL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Analog dash clock
Comments: To: Garrett Adams <gadams@JPS.NET>

Garrett,


About 10 years ago my clock quit and I was able to fix it.


These clocks are part electronic and part mechanical.  An electronic timing
circuit discharges a capacitor into a coil on a regular basis.  The pulsing
magnetism from the coil moves the mechanical part of the clock.  When mine
failed, I still observed a twitching on the second hand and thus I expected
to find a partially stripped gear.  What I did fine was that the capacitor
that discharges into the coil was bad.  I replaced it and the clock has run
just fine since.


Mike  '84 GL   '60 Vespa    '58 Isetta   ---   Phoenix Arizona
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