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Cheapo clock tear up.
MK14:
--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on January 06, 2022, 01:38:50 pm ---We had a clock which, when the battery was low, was OK on the 0-30 side but lost time on the 31-60 side, presumably due to a very small imbalance in the second hand.
We do actually have a clock that I had written off as not worth taking more effort over than clicking a 'buy now' link on Amazon - it seems to work but gradually loses time, and not at a trivial rate. Thanks to this thread maybe I'll dig into it and see if it can be saved...
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That makes perfect sense to me. I (vaguely) remember reading (or possibly a video) about that, quite a while back. There are reasons why the clock favors, stopping or running in some places rather than others. Unfortunately, I can't remember the details or exactly where I found out about it. It is a mechanical, rather than electronic phenomena. Something which very strong mechanical engineering types can perhaps pick up on.
Since I can't remember it, I'll try guessing. It has to lift the hands up, and do that through the complicated and friction creating gears. So, some positions are wear it tends to rest, when it is almost fully out of having enough power to move the clock hands, correctly.
Also, the radio data (time reference) clocks in the UK, at least my mechanical one. Can sometimes happily show completely the wrong time, or rather the minutes hand is correct, but the hours hand is completely wrong, without warning. This usually/always means it needs new batteries. Presumably, moving the hours hand reliably, needs a bit more power from the batteries, or something. Fascinating devices, anyway.
Cerebus:
--- Quote from: MK14 on January 04, 2022, 11:47:47 pm ---
--- Quote from: DrG on January 04, 2022, 11:32:56 pm ---Regardless, I can help you out by simply not responding to any more of your posts
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:palm:
Are they posting while drunk, too tired, had a really bad day, or something ?
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No, posting while insane. :) "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” - Anon.
--- Quote from: DrG on January 04, 2022, 08:01:48 pm ---Ohhh ok, I gottya, what you are saying is "Movement is accomplished by two magnets. One is a permanent magnet inside the base of that first gear. The other is an electromagnet (i.e., that coil). Energizing the coil creates a repelling magnetic pulse that moves the gear"- thanks so much for the official explanation :)
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--- Quote from: DrG on January 04, 2022, 08:15:29 pm ---OK, thanks, I must have been on drugs to think that "Movement is accomplished by two magnets. One is a permanent magnet inside the base of that first gear. The other is an electromagnet (i.e., that coil). Energizing the coil creates a repelling magnetic pulse that moves the gear"
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--- Quote from: DrG on January 04, 2022, 08:49:48 pm ---Please explain why "Movement is accomplished by two magnets. One is a permanent magnet inside the base of that first gear. The other is an electromagnet (i.e., that coil). Energizing the coil creates a repelling magnetic pulse that moves the gear" is incorrect. Thanks, I notice that was missing. Third time I am asking in the thread....Beuler...beuler..
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--- Quote from: DrG on January 04, 2022, 09:33:58 pm ---Please explain why "Movement is accomplished by two magnets. One is a permanent magnet inside the base of that first gear. The other is an electromagnet (i.e., that coil). Energizing the coil creates a repelling magnetic pulse that moves the gear" is incorrect. Thanks, I notice that was missing. Fourth time I am asking in the thread.
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--- Quote from: DrG on January 04, 2022, 11:32:56 pm ---"Movement is accomplished by two magnets. One is a permanent magnet inside the base of that first gear. The other is an electromagnet (i.e., that coil). Energizing the coil creates a repelling magnetic pulse that moves the gear".
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Cerebus:
--- Quote from: tooki on January 05, 2022, 08:16:46 pm ---
--- Quote from: DrG on January 04, 2022, 07:29:14 pm ---EDIT: Also, I really don't want this to be an argument thread or, just as bad, an "I know more than you thread so I am going to correct you". I think I have the operation of this right. If you KNOW you have it right than feel free to explain and all will benefit. But, please, appreciate that I went through the trouble of taking and posting pictures of something that I though was interesting and entertaining.
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Posting an interesting original post doesn’t give you the right to be the colossal asshole you’ve been to every single person who replied to you here.
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Look, if you insist he stops doing the only thing he appears to know how to do, what is he going to have left?
As he's so fond of attaching psychological labels to people, lets try this one on him for size: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppositional_defiant_disorder
DrG:
--- Quote from: Cerebus on January 06, 2022, 05:42:21 pm ---/-- mindless howling snipped -/
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You were not being ignored by me previously (I promise I will add you to the list momentarily) and here is why; while I remember well your amateur solution to how to change behavior so many months ago, I did not put you on ignore because of your previously reasonable (and sometimes insightful, for a novice) posts on CoVid. I figured, why bother, maybe he has something worthwhile to add even though he knows less about behavior than a kitchen appliance.
I like the ignore list feature. I have never responded to posts or even in a thread of some on the list. They are there because they have posted something so incredibly stupid, that I want to make sure I don't read whatever else they have to say. IOW it, and them, simply do not interest me. Others, like you, get on the ignore list because they are childish fuktards.
I don't have the number of posts that some do, but it is not my first rodeo - I see this fuktard mentality all over the place. I have learned that the type-B fuktard behaves notably different than the type-A fuktard.
If I get into it with a type-B fuktard, they leave me alone and I leave them alone. Neither one of us is particularly special and, believe it or not, I respect that way of behaving. There are lots of people I don't like and I am sure lots of people don't like me - I am ok with that - it is realistic and accepting that is healthy. There are so many people on boards, there is no reason to care a whole lot about that one way or the other. For the type-A fuktard, however, it is a different matter.
There is an old American expression, "A hit dog will holler" - that describes exactly what you and a few others are doing - you are 'hollering'.
Standing up to them, no matter how long ago, throws off their illusion of balance and self-worth and they remember so well that they just can't get past the experience.
For the Type-A fuktard, to be ignored is the worst thing that can happen to them. They don't get the attention that they so desperately and pathetically crave. They can't leave it alone, they keep coming back for more confrontation - hoping, sadly, that if they can just get into it one more time, there will be a better outcome....and, of course, that never happens.
That you and the few others can't get over your ass-kicking, no matter how long ago, is, indeed evidence of efficacy.
Note that I don't bother with you or anyone on ignore because it is just not that important to me. I know that they are there and I can safely surmise that they are hollering - so what?
Someone ignores me, I am fine with it. If they tell me that I am on their ignore list, I am fine with that and I would add them to mine so I can remember. That is why there are ignore lists.
Note also that every time the type-A fuktard acts out publicly like you are doing now where you have nothing at all to contribute to the thread, go out of your way only to disrupt, sadly try to gang up and bully your way to what you hope will be a different outcome; you put on display exactly what I am talking about.
You might feel better for the moment, but you remain a type-A fuktard and sooner, rather, than later, you will go through the same tantrums - when ever someone calls out your fuktardidness. In the classic sense, you can dish it out, but you can't take it and you can't get over it. That is not my fault and you would do better to direct your anger elsewhere...but you likely will not see it that way.
I don't like you (and the 3-4 other type-A fuktards on my ignore list, so far) and I am never going to like you and I am never going to respect you. Accept that.
I know that this post will piss you, (and those others) off and you (and those others) will holler some more...because, well, because you are type-A fuktards - again, that is not my fault. I have plenty of faults and there are plenty of things that are my fault, but your fuktardidess is simply not in that pot.
So, yes, I will be cleaning type-A fuktard ass bits out of my boots sometimes but the type-A fuktard can't do anything but "holler".
Many us have had to deal with plenty of type-A fuktards in real life. Consequential type-A fuktards, not impotent pissant keyboard warriors. Personally, I never, ever, let them bully me into going away. I will continue posting in this thread and any other that strikes my fancy because I am not breaking the rules and there is no reason why I should go away, no matter how much you wish for that - and, further, the fact is that there is not a damn thing you can do about it, but holler...and now you know that I will never see it.
Life is tough son, wear a helmet and stop hollering.
MK14:
LOL
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