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Originally posted by boondock-saint
Originally posted by prof7
Clocks that base their time on crystal oscillators (wrist watches or other kinds of battery driven or mechanical watches that are not connected to the grid) are not affected.
ummm, maybe u didn't read my post
my wrist watch is not connected to
any grid bro.
You know I had a digital watch that would always GAIN time..
It was a cheap 20 dollar wrangler from wally world also..
The battery lasted 6 YEARS!!!
I figured it just happened not for any particular reason..
I had a 80 dollar watch from a mall store that battery only lasted 2 and a half..
My watch stories...
You know now that I think about it, the wally world watch was digital
and the mall store watch was ?chronological? it was a normal 2 hand,
do you think that would effect battery life?
Originally posted by prof7
These clocks take their time base from the (usually very precise) 50Hz frequency of the European power grid. Usually the grid is synchronized all across Europe and exactly 50Hz are guaranteed everywhere but when some small part of the power grid gets decoupled from the rest of the grid and is running freely for a while then the frequency in this part of the grid might drift a little bit until it is recoupled again with the rest.
There is no mystery here, this is just a technical failure in the power grid. No mystery "impulses" in the grid, this is pure bull#. Just a normal frequency drift as it happens from time to time, every electrical engineer can explain this. All one needs to know is how the grid woks and how these clocks work. Both are neither secret nor mysteries.
Clocks that base their time on crystal oscillators (wrist watches or other kinds of battery driven or mechanical watches that are not connected to the grid) are not affected.
edit on 9-6-2011 by prof7 because: (no reason given)
CATANIA - currently the only "real risk of being in office is a quarter of an hour in advance. But the curious fact in itself and, as was expected, the mystery now runs on the Net for over a week the clocks of Catania, but also other cities of Sicily, seems literally insane. Suddenly begin to run even managing to go 15-20 minutes a day. An unexplained phenomenon that has sparked the curiosity of two computer experts of St Microelectronics, the semiconductor corporation based in Catania. Andrea De Luca and Francesco Nicosia are in some ways even to specialists. And certainly not easily suggestible. Speaking of them have discovered a problem in common, by return, shared on social networks . At that point, the discovery in Sicily are now hundreds of digital clocks that go faster than necessary.
TAM TAM ON FACEBOOK - "How many of you have had problems with alarm clocks, microwave etc?" asked Francis on Facebook. Are immediately flocked confirmations. "I know I did with the microwave ... the system and it happens again," he says Melina. And Angel: "... me with the radio alarm clock." Paola: 'It's true even my microwave is ahead by about 7 min ... how strange. " Julia, however, had thought he had already solved the problem 'to me has happened with the clock radio, so I changed that yesterday. " While Marilyn was charged everything to his carelessness. "The first time I thought the microwave I had touched me wrong - explain the system with time-Sky and the PC, the next day I find it forward 10 minutes. I'm more careful, the new system and find it later. Now 'is a hard thing for a week, had never done before ... boh will be hot. "
ETNA GUILT? - It 's just the point. What is happening in and around Catania in Sicily? Something like what happened recently in Caronia where televisions, refrigerators, radios suddenly caught fire? In that case even came to fear the presence of aliens who hangs out between the Tyrrhenian coast and the Aeolian Islands. The yellow di Caronia has never been fully resolved, even if it were made of assumptions: the effect of electromagnetic fields to sudden changes in the delivery of current. More or less the same as those made to explain "the mystery of crazy clocks." The people thought the network had also linked to electromagnetic fields Etna, although this would only apply to Catania, while some have even mentioned the effects of solar winds. Surge? - A convincing answer to give but the researchers of the department of electrical engineering at the University of Catania. "Everything could be born - told a local TV Dilettoso Professor Emmanuel - the fact that there are now a network of power generators, such as photovoltaic systems, which are often not self-regulated and thus any small variations in frequency are not adequately compensated '. And there are also those who point out that a few days work is in the submarine cable that comes in Sicily. The case will therefore be sought in the rush to supply electricity? "I thought about it too - replica Francesco Nicosia - but I did check the electrical wiring in my house (230 volts at a frequency of 49.89 Hz) and everything seems smooth. And if so faults should cover all the appliances. "
THE BANK WORRIED - If at first the two friends and colleagues addressed this strange story lightly and almost fun now seem worried. "The other day, Francis said - even the grocery store under the house told me that his digital clock has suddenly made a run. But this is nothing. Arriving at the bank and use that tells me I have to wait a bit '. "Unfortunately - my explanation here all the machines have been put in ...." "You also have the clocks go forward?" I ask for a joke. He said, "but how does she know?". "In short, the alarm clocks crazy is spreading like wildfire and now also runs over the Net
Originally posted by Cuervo
I'm confused. The OP translates the article saying that watches are affected. I don't see that at all when it's translated. If watches aren't involved then the oscillating explanation would be perfect. Here is the article in full:
Originally posted by Realtruth
Originally posted by Cuervo
I'm confused. The OP translates the article saying that watches are affected. I don't see that at all when it's translated. If watches aren't involved then the oscillating explanation would be perfect. Here is the article in full:
Anything that has a quartz base would be effected, if the watches are digital then quartz is involved.
I would say the common factor has to be the quartz base, that is being effected.
edit on 10-6-2011 by Realtruth because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Realtruth
Anything that has a quartz base would be effected, if the watches are digital then quartz is involved.
I would say the common factor is quartz.
Originally posted by Realtruth
The term "oriologio digitale" can mean clocks, watches, wristwatches, they way it was used in the article implies watches too.
Originally posted by prof7
But only LED clocks were actually affected by the drift in the mains frequency that happened due to the maintenance work at the sea cable.
Originally posted by Realtruth
It says TV's, Fridges, and radios caught fire also, so I am not sure about just the LED's.
There are many things going on here in this article.
Originally posted by zosimos
its a pretty nice watch so i dont think its broken