This was very helpful, I've been eyeing a couple of these on Ebay myself.
@whateverforevermusic8 жыл бұрын
love me daddy nukem
@ricardosantos25993 ай бұрын
10:20 AIMING FOR 1.000.000 BLOCKS AN HOUR
@twothreebravo7 жыл бұрын
A man with one clock always knows exactly what time it is, a man with many clocks never knows
@fabers926 жыл бұрын
- old Chinese proverb
@danmackintosh63256 жыл бұрын
If you want the ultimate in accuracy just take the batteries out of your clock (providing it's analogue!). Instead of maybe being within a few milliseconds of the atomic clock throughout it's battery life, it will in fact be EXACTLY right... Twice per day...
@yakfacts5 жыл бұрын
A man with his own NTP clock does.
@skinlizard22514 жыл бұрын
@@TomVycital He literally said "(providing it's analogue!)". Analogue clocks do not have am and pm indicators, at least not usually, as someone who has quite a few of them and also collects pocket watches.
@vivalalvam3 жыл бұрын
Man with hole in pocket feel cocky all day
@googleboughtmee8 жыл бұрын
So if you're friends with Techmoan you're probably getting a flip clock for Christmas
@faithplus15888 жыл бұрын
googleboughtmee Lol
@timothymn28 жыл бұрын
Someone will be getting the mid priced one from me!
@janfaltynek14987 жыл бұрын
googleboughtmee i got the white flip clock on christmas
@applepinez6 жыл бұрын
I won't be complaining, that's for sure
@extrahourinthepit4 жыл бұрын
So... a flipped clock?
@sumosushi75718 жыл бұрын
I had a USB card reader delivered from the USA about a month ago after placing the order in 2012.
@Mrx20028 жыл бұрын
Now thats fast service! -_-
@sumosushi75718 жыл бұрын
I AM THE GREAT CORNHOLIO! I know, +++Top seller, super fast delivery. Thank you+++ LOL. The US shipping lable was from about 18 months after I'd ordered it to so what the hell kind of eBay would you call that XD Techmoan should hold on to some hope for his alarm clock arriving sometime before 2020.
@2010ngojo8 жыл бұрын
They've probably import it to the US before shipping it directly to you. Was it from California or something?
@jordanzish7 жыл бұрын
Sounds more like someone found it in under a conveyor belt after a few months and just tossed it back on it's way.
@CWINDOWSsystem327 жыл бұрын
jordanzish More like a few years...
@euroshopperbier13378 жыл бұрын
The manual of the 6 digit one says about the "seconds"; decorative flips (no for time) you can see it at 3:02
@dorontsur7 жыл бұрын
That's just bullshit. A clock is the one thing you'd want to be accurate, dammit!
@ClaudioMichel3 жыл бұрын
eagle eyes... wouldn't have noticed that (nor did Techmoan)
@Smothtiger3 жыл бұрын
Were recommended by KZbin to watch this again after watching Technology Connections on flip clocks.
@inactiveytchannel3 жыл бұрын
We are
@williamhayden77118 жыл бұрын
The primary issue I see with the open flip clocks is the accumulation of dust. It won't be easy to dust them, so perhaps a bell jar over the top of them might help.
@Muonium18 жыл бұрын
air duster
@BrentBlueAllen8 жыл бұрын
Would the constantly moving nature of the digits not prevent dust from collecting on them?
@MrRacerhacker8 жыл бұрын
no, haven't you seen a computer fan, lots of dust on the fan blades
@joydime8 жыл бұрын
+Brent Allen Laminar flow fluid and gas has a velocity of zero at the boundary layer. Car washes owe a good part of their business to this effect.
@309Littlelion7 жыл бұрын
Speaking of computer fans maybe some air duster would solve the problem?
@dukenukem83818 жыл бұрын
HOLY SHIT I AM ACTUALLY WATCHING TWO CLOCKS RACING EACH OTHER
@TyDurr17 жыл бұрын
I own the one with the big digits, and I recommend it highly. Mine has gained 30 seconds in about six months, so I can't complain too much. There's a low, quiet hum all the time that's pretty easy to ignore, but otherwise, it's great!
@azyfloof8 жыл бұрын
I reckon the chinglish in those first instructions means to set the time one minute ahead of what it is, so that manufacturing tolerances in the gear backlash then take that minute out.
@oscarmuffin43225 жыл бұрын
It does mean that. I have one similar to the one in the middle. When you set it you have to set it one minute ahead and then it takes two minutes until it flips over to the next minute. So if I was setting the clock to 5:10. I would set it to 5:11 when my phone hits 5:10 and then two minutes later at 5:12 it will flip over and be correct. So then both will show 5:12.
@chewy16848 жыл бұрын
I love your intro music, it reminds me of naff 70s/80s documentaries that I always got shown in school (and I went to school in the 00s...)
@gentuxable8 жыл бұрын
Bad joke: Why did the fourth clock not arrive? It takes its time.
@rippedtorn23105 жыл бұрын
Just clocked this terrible joke . On the face of it a bad pun , it took me a second but i got to hand it too you , one to watch . #timepiecereferences .
@@Max-9632 if my phone had this i would use it. Thank you.
@MrMaxeemum4 жыл бұрын
I saw this video about 2 years ago and decided to get the large one as shown in this video. It has been brilliant, it has kept perfect time for 2 years and not needed any adjustment. But I have had 2 digits fall off (one of the 2x tabs the digit rotates on broke) but these were easily repaired with super glue and a pin. Highly recommended.
@DanChasingTheGlobe8 жыл бұрын
Techmoan, admittedly I wasn't expecting to get much out of this video about flipping clocks, but again you continue to exceed expectations. Thanks for the information. I think I may be hooked on the postscript puppet performance. Cheers from Texas.
@SamCyanide8 жыл бұрын
The clock on the left (skeleton clock) has so much character. I love how it fails at 42 sec and then just piles up till it flips down.
@woohunter15 жыл бұрын
This takes me back to the mid ‘80’s when I had a Sanyo flip clock radio with backlit clock, loved that thing.
@chubbypapaya7 жыл бұрын
Features: Cheap
@BodyKnight7 жыл бұрын
It's weird, i haven't touched or set a flip clock in maybe 20 years, but the moment you started turning the wheel on the second clock, i had a very tactile memory of how it felt to spin those things.
@desnick2316 Жыл бұрын
Very satisfying feel
@VikasVJois8 жыл бұрын
I get excited when your review video content ends early cause I know there is a funny muppets sketch coming. They are hilarious. Keep it up
@danibarrens7 жыл бұрын
Good afternoon. First tell you that I love your channel, it's sensational, congratulations !. After commenting that I have exactly that clock (the biggest) and is very nice but makes a very sharp noise at night, you can hear the mechanism very strongly.
@Rayshader7 жыл бұрын
Lovely I was about to buy them and stopped by youtube for this. Thanks.
@danaross8 жыл бұрын
Re the puppetry; Great writing and well done. You have a great channel and i truly appreciate your work and silliness.
@laurenhahn85698 жыл бұрын
"Features: Cheap" Well I'm sold.
@mattbates68874 жыл бұрын
I had a Japanese made direct mains driven flip clock in the 80's, worked perfectly for years. Good old Japanese, they still make some good gear.
@thatpersonsmusic Жыл бұрын
I have a flip clock from around 1975 and one with a rolling mechanism from the 80s, both Japanese, they both keep time perfectly. Also have a strange mechanical 7 segment display clock (the “lumitime” clock), gears were gunked up a bit but I freed them up and its kept time well since
@WilsonMackle1013 жыл бұрын
I'd be interested on your take on those fancy simulated sunlight alarms that are supposed to make waking up in the morning alot easier. Would be interesting to see a budget one compared to one of the mad high end ones
@oscarmuffin43225 жыл бұрын
I can vouch for the one in the middle keeping good time as we have one. May just be lucky but it's lost about a minute in a year. And that's easy enough to fix just by flicking it a two minutes forwards (As when you adjust it, it takes two minutes for the first minute to flip over). However, the minutes do not drop exactly a minute apart I may add. That's why the cheapest one was seemingly faster. Due to tolerances and whatnot minute 57 may last 67 seconds whereas minute 7 may last 53. It all averages out though.
@catfishkempster7 жыл бұрын
I just wanted to say thank you for the video. I've always loved this style of clock and keep my eyes open for them when at thrift stores, but rarely find a working one. Well, I just received mine today (the cheapest one), and it fits in great in my retro themed gaming room. Awesome!
@Boemel8 жыл бұрын
Still waiting for a giant airport flipboard to show up for cheap somewhere... That will be my new kitchen memoboard :D What's that dear? Pick up milk after work ? RATATATATATATATTATATATATA XD Btw if you want a reliable source of time do not get the cheap ones, even with fresh batteries they will run slow !
@dissonantdreams8 жыл бұрын
Tom Jacobs ohhh, imagine! That would make for the coolest kitchen memoboard ever...
@CoriolisAffectment7 жыл бұрын
Ooooh, app connected from the internet! Send each other into a swoon with messages from "out there" at unexpected times! Ah yes, what every passive aggressive couple needs. Lol.
@somitomi7 жыл бұрын
Awww, hell, that's actually a pretty damn neat idea. Shame I couldn't even find one from a railway station. Although those can't just write anything your heart desires. But still, that flipboard sound, I miss that.
@bryceforsyth85216 жыл бұрын
Use old GE built ones (that use mains power), from what I have seen they are very accurate. EDIT: I'm speaking in relation to accuracy of the clocks.
@jgroenveld12688 жыл бұрын
I love flip clocks - my first experience of coming across them is when as a kid I used to go to the bank with Mum.
@Igstormchaser7 жыл бұрын
I recently got a Panasonic RC-6030 on eBay for $40. It's a great clock and seems pretty accurate, especially being from 1971. It's the wood version of the one from Groundhog Day.
@TheVaultable8 жыл бұрын
I got that largest clock as a present about a year ago. i really love the way it looks. It took a short while to get used to the sound of it flipping as I kept it in my bedroom, but I don't even notice it anymore.
@wilkes858 жыл бұрын
Mechanical digital clocks are so cool, and there's a whole world out there of unique and interesting designs and mechanisms. I've got a 1970s Strauss flip clock at my desk and it keeps perfect time; if the power didn't go out for a year, it would still be accurate down to the second... and I only paid a couple bucks for it! Finding vintage ones isn't that easy anymore and if you're lucky to find one, it's likely to be broken, so it's nice that they make new ones again. That 6 digit model demonstrates why this particular type of mechanism didn't display seconds on vintage units... usually they had a spinning wheel that displayed a spiral pattern or something similar, just to show that the clock is running.
@JoshuaRastia6 жыл бұрын
I finally got around to getting the cheaper flip clock thats in the white case and i really love it! Me and my gf were looking for a clock we could put next to our tv, and we didn't want something with a big face or made with led's or anything too bright to distract us from gaming, and this clock was perfect since it has no backlighting! The ticking & flipping is very soft and not noticeable at all while gaming or watching stuff.
@razubi6 жыл бұрын
I just found out about these clocks. Your video is perfect for my curiousity! Very thorough and your voice is just as amusing!
@MCKoolperson98 жыл бұрын
Get a vintage GE, I have two and they are awesome. The alarms are really annoying though
@daled41918 жыл бұрын
Ogoun
@mariobonello97977 жыл бұрын
Follow all your videos with interest. You convinced me to purchase the flip-clock you liked, and purchased via ebay, and I am very happy with it. The unexpected astonishing thing is that I after about two months since I received it, it is still keeping exact time! Amazing considering that it is not quartz but mechanical.
@Techmoan7 жыл бұрын
I found the same thing with mine - surprisingly accurate.
@ChipGuy8 жыл бұрын
Doh, now I want a flip clock, again.... Haha to the muppets at the end. Coming up with the Pedant's Father pupped was the best idea ever.
@Nexfero8 жыл бұрын
I bought an old 1978 GE Flip Clock radio/alarm clock a couple years ago on ebay, it was only like $15, still works fine
@kevnar3 жыл бұрын
The ticking of a clock serves only to remind you at 3 am that you're getting closer to your own death.
@ckape8 жыл бұрын
I had picked up one of the 6-digit ones a while back and I think part of the problem with the seconds is that it doesn't have the tab hanging down from the bar to hold back the digits like the hours and minutes have. I think if you added a tab it would be more consistent, but never actually tested it. Of course the main problem is it's meant to be a modular design so they can use the same parts for the 4 digit version that never showed up
@bradyeates12665 жыл бұрын
At 3:58 you can see some brown coloured residue on the 'seconds' wheel, this is on the number 44 flap so probably explains why some flaps get stuck together when it comes round to 42 seconds each minute
@ricardosantos25999 ай бұрын
7:30 and 5:30 or 7:01
@benny27006 жыл бұрын
Yes, It's very important to making up tooling short accuracy, also you must remember to adjust forward clock change the button for order to well keep time accuracy.
@Duke_Silver8 жыл бұрын
I wonder if you can buy some kind of replica of the "Groundhog Day" clock, preferably playing "I Got You Babe" as an alarm signal.
@w7777777s8 жыл бұрын
Oswald Cobblepot "I Got You Babe"
@dissonantdreams8 жыл бұрын
Oswald Cobblepot Haha, Groundhog Day is the first thing that comes to my mind whenever I see one of these clocks! That would be awesome :D
@kurtownsj004 жыл бұрын
"Okay campers rise and shine, get your booties on because it's COLD out there today!" kzbin.info/www/bejne/i37WfKd3eZKNrac
@geulach8 жыл бұрын
I have the white clock, would definitely recommend, had it for almost a year now and never went out of sync! the clicking sounds might disturb some people at sleeping though, but I got used to it :)
@ZoeyDMC7 жыл бұрын
I bought one of the large flip clocks, and I love it. It's accurate "enough"... but it scares the cats at the half hour and the hour when both flips snap forward.
@JohnKelly27 жыл бұрын
I have a flip clock I picked up about 15 years ago that proudly sits above my TV. It loses about 5 minutes over the course of 6 months, which is how long the batteries last. This reminds me, do you remember the ball clocks of the 70s? Ball bearings would course through a maze until coming to a stop at the hour and minute.
@ruvarkus4 жыл бұрын
vintage ones are the best :) I like those motors
@OmarKhanUK8 жыл бұрын
I bought that cheap white one a few months back (from Germany): don't find it as noisey in general use but do have hrs:mins syncing issues and noisy when it does finally flip over (whole unit shakes). They are pretty from an engineers/retro view point, but that's about it. Great vid.
@RaceToNowhere7 жыл бұрын
I have a very old train station wall mounted flip clock, given to me as a present when they renovated a local train station here in Italy
@SnickersTS8 жыл бұрын
I looked for flip clocks before, but was disappointed to not find any 24 hour ones cheap enough.
@squareenigma10228 жыл бұрын
☢ SNICKERS 5+2 GRATIS ☢ Wait did you used to always comment on Ashens videos? I know i recognise your name from somewhere...
@danielbergmann43308 жыл бұрын
You could always buy a old flip clock, there are heap tons of the fuckers. I bought a 70s GE flip clock a few years ago for like 20 bucks...and never had any problem with it. Cool Dashie photo btw... :P
@Fummy0078 жыл бұрын
Who cares if its 24 hours. Just add 12 if is says PM
@tomsuper21998 жыл бұрын
+Fummy that's fucking annoying for anyone who doesn't grew up with the 12h-system.
@Fummy0078 жыл бұрын
Its way more intuitive tbh. Get used to it famalam
@falcoperegrinus827 жыл бұрын
Why can't these Chinese manufacturers find one English speaker to write their instruction manuals? lol
@CeeStyleDj6 жыл бұрын
Richard saving every dime perhaps.
@cliz3056 жыл бұрын
They just want to do it themselves and save money. Even though most Chinese students can't speak English properly, many of them can write just fine.
@josecarlosxyz6 жыл бұрын
too expensive
@AbsurdAsparagus6 жыл бұрын
they do, but its more like "hey we need some one who speaks english" "i speak english" "oh yeah well say something" "ok, (says random nonsense), i am speak english." "hmm i dont speak english, but sounds good to me" "cool, now when do i get payed?"
@AUSSIEMADMATT6 жыл бұрын
They don`t give a fuck, they want it to break so they can sell you another one!!!
@OaksCU18 жыл бұрын
The muppet parts are always so good!
@WhatsOnTheOtherEnd8 жыл бұрын
Best flip clocks you can buy on the cheap are broken vintage ones. They're very precise, come in a wild array of styles, and can be purchased broken. Most of the time, all it needs is a light oiling of the motor assembly. Some Sony Digimatics (and others) have accurate "rolling second indicators", which is just a synchronized rolling ring with the seconds printed onto the side. That way, you can see the seconds, it's accurate, and it isn't too distracting.
@chrisfreemesser57078 жыл бұрын
Definitely one of my favorite channels. Was thinking of getting a flip clock last week after watching a bunch of the retro vids, and lo and behold, now there's a vid for flip clocks. Doesn't sound like these new clocks are as good as the old Emerson AM/FM/alarm flip clock I had as a kid though!
@ricardosantos25999 ай бұрын
At 7:30
@Girder37 жыл бұрын
I actually bought the four-digit version of the second clock in the video about a year ago. I quite like it and it kept decent enough time for a desk clock and was easy to read when I got out of bed. Unfortunately the minute panel that has the little wing broke off recently, which messes with the way the hour switch over works so that the initial couple minute panels get messed up. Thankfully the mechanism still keeps decent time.
@racecar068 жыл бұрын
My Seiko flip clock is still going strong.It's from 1976, is powered by 1 x D cell battery which hardly requires changing & has never ever stopped working :)
@piccalillipit92113 жыл бұрын
THE SKETCH at the end was brilliant...
@MrKkprince2 жыл бұрын
Original flip clocks are driven by 220 volt 50 hz syncro motors in a way to be precise as the power supply frequency is. 50 hz frequency can slightly oscillate but is kept in long term in sync by an atomic clock across europe
@billevans848 жыл бұрын
Got the cheapest plastic box flip clocks, just like in the video, but in black colour. Ended up with hour flip freezed at 4 pm (can't move it even with button pressing), while minutes still keep running. Thanks for the video!
@ed105238 жыл бұрын
This is A Great Video. When i was younger my parents had a Panasonic flip clock radio with a faux wood grain finish. It also had an amber glow light when the lights turned off. These clocks bring great memories of my home as a young man. Great ending with your puppets. They always make me laugh. I agree, whats with the comments of "First" on You tube videos anyway. Cheers!
@KevReillyUK6 жыл бұрын
I bought the cheap one about a year ago, before seeing this video. I always fancied a clock like the on in LOST (alas ThinkGeek's April Fool version never made it to reality) so the intent was to install this one in a custom case and possibly modify the minute digits to be white-on-black and more closely resemble the one from the show. As with many of my projects none of that happened, but the clock itself is surprisingly nice. A pair of decent rechargeable batteries lasted about 11 months (changed them a couple of weeks ago and I don't recall changing them previously) and it had only gained about 15 seconds in that time. Certainly accurate enough to use as a quick glance clock, although I'm guessing limited QA means there'll be a lot of variation in accuracy and I may have just got lucky. In my home office with computers and/or ceiling fan running, I don't notice the ticking or even the "flap" of the changing digits most of the time. I'm not sure I'd want it as a bedroom clock though.
@peterudbjorg4 жыл бұрын
AM/PM: That’s soooo US & old-fashioned. In the Civilzed world, we use 24 hour clocks. :P Still, they are neat. :)
@MegaBakerdude5 жыл бұрын
The D cell compartment on the large clock with the circular cap looks cool.
@dragonskunkstudio75828 жыл бұрын
Good stealth on not showing unwanted reflections of the puppeteer on the glass and chrome.
@CheshireTomcat686 жыл бұрын
I bought the cheap one due to your video, for a bit of fun, at the time of the video, and it worked fine until a week ago and the hour mechanism is sometimes not flipping, with a loud click/bang. Maybe budget flip clocks aren't the way to go in the long run :-)
@McRocket8 жыл бұрын
I like the large one as well. BTW, I look forward to those post-review puppet shows now...I am hooked.
@colinreid35448 жыл бұрын
Bought the big one about 2 years ago, also thinking it'd be a lot smaller LOL! Uses a battery a year approx. and is actually super accurate. Great conversation point.
@ricardosantos25999 ай бұрын
7:30.1 7:01.001 5:30.001
@iceblu37108 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for this vid! After the timer I was scouring the net for my own flip clock and there are TONS of CHEAP ones and I figured they would be terrible time keepers given the low low cost. Lee Valley sells an accurate one with calender but its very pricy. I am going to get the large one for fun.
@stevenjlovelace8 жыл бұрын
I always love the old computers Green Muppet uses.
@armron946 жыл бұрын
I found flip clock in the trash/ rubbish the other day. It works fine all I do is work is the radio. So I cleaned it up and use right now my study. And I always wanted to a flip clock back to the future movie and the groundhog movie that's why I always wanted one. It is a General Electric flip clock. I put my digital alarm clock next to it. And so behind by a couple seconds. I had for a few years now. And it's reliable. It also has a light tell what time it is. That's neat.
@DJogdog5 жыл бұрын
The instructions that you didn't understand said to set the minute one ahead of the desired time. That's why your seconds clock was one minute behind every time you set it.
@Thematt118 жыл бұрын
You read my mind. I've been debating buying one of these over the last few days.
@TheAussieStig307 жыл бұрын
God dammit I wanted the 6 digit one so bad but I would sit there going insane when it changed at 4.00 and 9 seconds. Damn.
@nevet12128 жыл бұрын
I've had a very similar model to the cheapest one in my kitchen for more than a year now. Same batteries, albeit very good batteries, but the time is still set correctly, maybe off by a minute or so.
@ninjamaster1027 жыл бұрын
I had the cheapest flip clock when I was a teen. It made two sets of batteries explode inside the clock and that's when I decided to throw it away. It could work again after cleaning the contacts for the batteries but I didn't think it was worth using if it meant that I'd have to repair it every time I put in fresh batteries. It was about $15 so I'm glad it didn't break the bank.
@tubical717 жыл бұрын
This time i think, i´m really golden, as i always wanted these flip clocks even entirely through that days where was all and way outdated... I was given some nice "Krupps" clocks where some also has a day count, of course you need to set it every short month. But the best of all, i got an all and complete 24hour flip clock with full date and weekday from our local bank branch which was closed down some 30 years ago. I came back from school that day and saw some people moving out the furniture, i walked in and asked if i could have that clock, they simply said: shure, we would have tossed that thing right away in the dump anyway in a minute....:-D
@monskiwi3 жыл бұрын
i have the large flip clock, have had it a couple years now. It is a great clock! The only issue is it runs slightly fast. Slowly it will get faster and faster before I change it. Currently at 10 minutes fast!
@aspectcarl8 жыл бұрын
This video provides a definition of the phrase "time keeping" that I was previously unaware of.
@jdatlas46683 жыл бұрын
Back here after the Technology Connections Video and that white clock looks like the one he talked about as being unreliable... so I’m wondering if Mat‘s still works.
@hitmiccs8 жыл бұрын
I own the large-digit clock, as well as the cheap one for a couple of years now. The large one runs like forever on a single battery and mine keeps really good time, like 1 minute + in a month. It's noisy as hell, you can hear the motor running all the time - so yours must be of better quality :) What's funny about the cheap version: mine seemed to have a problem with stuck gears, if you set it to the correct time, after a week or so it showed the time minus one hour - the minutes were still correct! That's the miracle of cheap stuff, I guess ^^
@PrincessZoey8 жыл бұрын
maybe get a higher frame rate recording of your intro :) it'll look soo good!
@antonioarroyas76628 жыл бұрын
Great idea for a video! More affordable than tubes and almost as interesting.
@TheShivABC6 жыл бұрын
I still rock my Panasonic flip clock from the 70's wake up for work like Mcfly every day! lol
@brechen20028 жыл бұрын
i have one of those big ones on the round foot, and it's amazing how accurate it is!
@MrPleers6 жыл бұрын
I got one from the 70's (in lime green) on a flea market. Works perfectly. Has the 24 hours instead of AM/PM. And only did cost me 20 euro's. The new ones seem a bit overprised sometimes.
@jeffreyblack6663 жыл бұрын
I would say it does count seconds, it is just that the minute drop is not consistent enough. So it is really that it doesn't count minutes properly. I also see that the other clocks don't have such a connection between the minute and hour, do they change right on the hour? That wasn't in the video.
@volkswagenginetta8 жыл бұрын
i find it funny you found the noise to be an issue on the cheapest clock. at my house my dad repairs clocks of varying ages and movements (the oldest is a clock from the 1860's) we have west minister chimes, aniversary, banjo, schoolhouse, Cockoo you name it (we have 3 cockoo's running atm). Not a knock against you and i understand why you would find it annoying, but its easy to get used to. I don't even notice the clocks running in my house anymore.
@bradscott31658 жыл бұрын
Seems to me a raspberry pi and a stepper motor would make for one very accurate flip clock.
@YensR8 жыл бұрын
Do it! And send it to him for review (or do a video yourself) :)
@zwz.zdenek8 жыл бұрын
The only way would be constantly syncing it to an ntp server. Computer boards aren't particularly great at keeping time on their own. If I were to fix one of these for accuracy, I'd dismount the movement off the mechanism, attach a temporary seconds hand, then measure the deviation per day. I'd then add a cap parallel to the crystal to slow it down as needed. They are usually too fast. If it was going too slow, I would add a series capacitor with the crystal.
@YensR8 жыл бұрын
you could use an RTC module on an Arduino or on an even less powerful microcontroller.
@zwz.zdenek8 жыл бұрын
YensR That's an overkill. The clock already includes a quartz crystal circuit. There is usually a constant deviation as a "defect," but it is very stable age-wise. Fixing the deviation with caps to the crystal is a cheap and long-lasting fix you'll be hard-pressed to beat with any solution.
@YensR8 жыл бұрын
zwz • zdenek I am talking about building your own clock, you talk about modifying an existing one. Both legitimate avenues, but different - so calling it overkill misses the point I think. After all, if a 5 quid RTC module is overkill, then what is syncing to an NTP server ;)
@jwardell8 жыл бұрын
I used to have a flip clock alarm clock next to my bed, pretty common in the 80s. These all plugged into the wall and ran off a very simple AC motor running at 50/60Hz. I never noticed much of a timing issue thanks to the accuracy of the electrical utility. It seems moving to battery power DC has hurt their accuracy, you may want to pick up a mains powered flip clock instead.
@w7777777s8 жыл бұрын
Go retro similar, but not quite flip. Obtain a mechanical digital clock from the 40s-50s. Continuous rotating seconds wheel synchronized to the minutes and hours which are also wheels rather than flip digits (really actually wheels of a sort). Only hitch is that they use 120V 60Hz synchronous motors. (Also applies to your timer clock?) So you must find one meant for 220/50Hz or it will be a PITA for you to really use. Unless you come up with a 120V 60Hz BIG supply for all the retro US equipment you use regularly. I also see a new TV series developing for you as we all anxiously await new family members and plot development with your muppet characters.
@w7777777s8 жыл бұрын
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@scratchpad79548 жыл бұрын
The 120V 60Hz will be absolutely no problem for me. I would try to seek out Cesium-133 accuracy for my clocks.
@lordkayx3 жыл бұрын
im sure some one said this but you have to move it one minute ahed if your trying to synce them so if clock a is at 5 35 then you need to flip clock b to 5 36 so they will both sync at 5 37
@vinx13508 жыл бұрын
Now I have to decide between this and nixie clocks. I think I'll lean more towards the nixie clocks, they look more interesting.
@CosmicConsole6 жыл бұрын
I have old GE flip clock from somewhere between late 70's and early 80's. Unfortunately, it runs for about 10 minutes before it gets stuck and will not move. At least it looks nice on my desk and it's still right once a day. :)
@aljowen8 жыл бұрын
Not gonna lie, for me there is not much point in a clock if it can't tell the time to within a minute after a day of being set :p
@maxmouse713 Жыл бұрын
That 3rd clock would look great accompanied by a Banker's Lamp (one of them green lamp shade lamps with gold bodies), I think.
@Heckerschee5 жыл бұрын
The manual clearly states that the seconds are just decoration! Spotted that right away!
@michaelking33275 жыл бұрын
save your money, get "fliqlo" flip clock for your computer, it's a free screensaver, works with all versions of windows since vista, including windows 10
@Mrbullydog668 жыл бұрын
I wonder if anyone fast forwards to the end puppet show first before watching the review.
@philos318 жыл бұрын
To be honnest, I sometimes do look if the muppets are at the end. They should have their own show!
@mr.smash6988 жыл бұрын
Me too, I don't even look ahead in the video, I rather wait.
@macnerd938 жыл бұрын
I have a 1969 Sony Digimatic flip clock, great piece and keeps excellent time its plugged into the mains doesn't run off battery
@technologyproductions-ye3px7 жыл бұрын
macnerd93 cool
@technologyproductions-ye3px7 жыл бұрын
macnerd93 40+ year old clock
@a4andrei2 жыл бұрын
It's really difficult to find a good flip clock. Your best bet is to find a new old stock one. Panasonic had a lot of models and you can find some on ebay... Although most look very rough.