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Old 8th Mar 2018, 9:32 pm   #62
hamid_1
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Default Re: Electric clocks running slow warning

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Originally Posted by merlinmaxwell View Post
Mains clock 3 minutes slow, I wonder if they will insert cycles to correct it when the load goes down?
Same thing happened last year. My electric clocks 'lost' about 2 minutes, but eventually caught up again. See this thread: https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/...d.php?p=952189

At that time, there wasn't any severe weather, as far as I can remember. Now my synchronous clocks have gone slow by about 2.5 minutes. I think this started happening just before the big freeze and snowstorms, so perhaps the weather isn't the only contributing factor.

I'm hoping the clocks will be corrected like they were last year. My nixie tube clock lost power altogether last week, so I've had to reset it. It's been fairly stable since then and is now showing the correct time. That means it might end up being too fast, but I'll have to reset it again at the end of March anyway so it doesn't matter much at the moment.
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