[time-nuts] How I got my FE-5680A to lock in Sydney, Australia

Dr. David Kirkby drkirkby at gmail.com
Sun Feb 9 03:58:33 EST 2014


On 6 February 2014 21:32, Jamieson (Jim) Rowe <jimrowe at optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> So I decided to test this in a crude way, by inverting the FE-5680A and seeing what happened. And - lo and behold - it locked up within 2.5 minutes, and stayed locked until I turned off the power and let it go cold again. The next morning I applied power again, and within 3 minutes it locked up again with no problems. And it's been locked up now for over 48 hours...

If you tilt it at some other angle other than 180 degrees, say 90,
135, 225 & 270 degrees, does it take the same time to lock up? I'm
thinking if it is a magnetic effect, one might expect it to depend on
the angle it is rotated.

Dave


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