You're a godsent! I bought the exact same kind of clock mechanism to make it into a gift for someone but my curiosity got the better of me and I opened the back, and the gears went flying everywhere! Thanks for your help I was able to put it back together and get it working :)

My dad bought a nice wooden German wall clock with pandolium for the living room. After a few years, my mom got attached to it. But a loose screw caused the clock to fall on the floor. When I was visiting them, my mom complain that my dad didn't hammer the nail hard enough to the wall. Poor clock fell and all the gears went up to the kitchen. While cleaning the fridge, she found a few gears under the fridge. I went to a clock shop and asked for the cheapest clock with pandolium. The clerk was kind enough to tell me the difference between contious movement and the jaggy one. Contious movement uses a full electric motor and uses much more power. However, it is very quiet. To make the story short, I fixed the clock and put it up to the wall just before mother's day. She said that was the best mother's day gift she received! The movement was made in Japan. It's been twenty years and still working.

@MrWasim100100

3 жыл бұрын

memories are great

@noormelaka3622

2 жыл бұрын

great

@leninrithick8785

2 жыл бұрын

Nice work bro 👍

@MyOwnWaySreejith

2 жыл бұрын

Thats awesome 👏

@LMB222

2 жыл бұрын

*pendulum

One of the most original electronics channel on youtube.

Excellent, thank you for putting this up. Had an issue putting the coil back together and was able to see from the way you had it assembled how it should go together, even though a slightly different design. 10/10

Thank you! I've repaired my quartz clock thanks to your video.

I always wondered how these clocks mechanisms works, very interesting!

you use analog test gear very nicely your circuit analysis is amazing i love your videos very informative

I never thought our clock would run again. It does! You are a genius!!!

thank you sir you saved my bacon when a job i was working on due to deliver in an hr went wrong when the casing was opened and exploded all over my workbench!! cogs everywhere!! after finding your video its now working perfect again! THANKS!!

First one of these I saw close up was in 1971 and it was already a few years old. It had no seconds hand, and it ran off an alkaline C cell that would last for a little more than a year. I wish I had it for comparison: possibly no integrated circuits, probably a CMOS counter to get the 8 Hz or 1Hz or whatever frequency from 32768. CMOS 4000-series chips showed up in 1968, so maybe... I have a quartz controlled alarm clock with a backup battery. In eight years it’s gained 20 minutes because the crystal vibrates just a little too fast. So the clock gains about 0.4 seconds a day.

Thanks for posting this! I needed to put mine back together, your video really helped.

I found this mega helpful and very informative, thanks for doing this video :)

You've created a time machine at the end. 😀

@orange11squares

6 жыл бұрын

he should add a digital camera to take pictures from the future...:))

Thank you! Awesome to see the inside of the clock!

Thank you very much for your demonstration and explanation! For example:- I have an old clock that did not function properly but it's frame, dial and hands are beautiful and so I am not willing to throw it out. In such a case I can buy a new quartz clock moment and replace the old moment of the clock by new moment so that the old clock will function as a new clock. I got such an Idea by watching the video. So that we can avoid throwing old dead clocks into garbage or by the side of road or street.

Thank you, this allowed me to fix the gears in my clock!

The turbo clock at the end was great!

Nice video. Saw the inside of the continues running second hand for the first time. Have explored the 'step type second hand' clock earlier. Also be sure to pat the 🐈 when she appears on camera. She is nice and fluffy.

this helped me put together a clock i made some years ago, the mechanism was rubbish, the battery had gone rusty. i decided the pull it apart, all the parts got mixed up. 0v built up crud on board connection. part axle slight bend. i fixed the minor problems. now works ok

upvote for vaccuum display. You are awesome. Love how you talk too.

I disassembled two of such mechanisms and managed to re-assemble both. The other one i managed to re-assemble was a radio-controlled mechanism, it took at least 8 takes to re-install all wheels in correct positions... But it still works well.

Thank you for your effort.

Great sir you have nicely explained 💖

The only and best video on this subject on the internet, liked 👅

Great your teaching videos and your funny Czenglish irony. TOP KZreadr!!

My favourite video so far!

Easy to hear you love clocks. 😉👍

Good video that show it can do super-fast moving!

Well to be fair the listing clearly states "hands repair"... So I think it was pretty transparent that the hands were in less than perfect condition!

1.5 mA power consumption, no wonder why my wall clock drains it's battery so quick, it has probably the same crappy motor! By the way thanks for great video 👍

@yong62

5 жыл бұрын

It doesn't draw 1.5mA continuously. The pulse duration is about 20 millisecond.

@JUANKERR2000

4 жыл бұрын

I had a similar movement that suddenly started to need a new cell every three or four months. I found that I had damaged (bent) the second hand shaft by pushing the second hand onto it too forcefully.

Great help. I opened one to see if I could rob the longer spindle. That was a fail. But I am always inquisitive to see if I can fix things. Thanks to your demo, accompanied by your quaint narrative, I got it together and working again. Same day, I tried to reverse the swing of fridge doors, but no video showed how to dismantle the trim on the tops and bottoms glued to the door, where hand grips are. They would have to come off, because the doors have to be inverted, and then the hand grips are in the wrong place. I figured it can't be done, but I'd still like to dismantle so as to re-spray the doors so that there is no evidence of masking tape, overspread or gaps. Now I'm awaiting delivery of new door gaskets, which another installation video demonstrated.:)

Wow :) You bent space-time Continuum :D greetings from Poland :)

Had one that, after around a decade of running, failed a funny way. The clock would move the second hand tick by tick as usual, but then at random points along the sweep the second hand would jump ahead 20-30 seconds per tick, probably because the little gearbox inside had worn out the pivots it ran on. Did a transplant of the clock mechanism from another cheap and nasty clock, and it lives again, keeping good time. As to the "continuous movement" style, I am not a fan, because of the very short battery life. They typically last under 2 months per battery, while the single tick versions will go for around 2 years on a single alkaline cell. Took one that was otherwise a nice clock, but which ate a battery per month, and converted it to run off 12V DC from a solar panel, using a simple voltage regulator of a series resistor of around 4k7, a red LED as voltage regulator and a 1000uF capacitor to provide the current pulses for operation. then added some used SMD white LED's insode as illumination for the dial, and even with less than 0.5mA of current through them ( running through the series resistor so as to keep overall current the same with just the LED dropping a little of the voltage) they are way too bright, had to add a resistor of 5k6 across the LED's to dim them more, but still there is enough light from them to cast a shadow and light up the room with a night light after dark. Was a good recycle of an otherwise not usable clock.

@johnsimpson8263

6 жыл бұрын

That "funny failure mode" you describe happened to one of mine too.

@F3udF1st

6 жыл бұрын

A quality movement with continous motion will last many times more than that. If you buy crap, you can't complain.

Great analyses. Very high battery usage for the continuous running motor (1.5 mA) The stepper motor clocks usually run for well over 1 year on the same battery.

wow, you make intersting also the simpliest thing, my compliments

I’m always so fascinated by your quartz clock ⏰ motor videos. Once I find an old, or broken 😞 clock 🕰️ motor, I take it apart for the little magnet 🧲. I also find the copper copy coil fascinating 🧐. It is this copper 👮‍♀️ coil, which gives the magnetic 🧲 gear ⚙️ the impulse, each, EXACTLY one ☝️ second apart, enabling SUPERIOR time keeping ability, although, I do not know how this works. Sorry 😞 about all the emoji’s, and the long comment, but these videos are very interesting 🧐. Your friend, Jeff.

Nice information sir salute

Complete knowledge. Thanks for....

02:36 Interesting about the counter-weight on the second hand... it gives the second hand a little gravity-boost when the pointer is going up on the left side of the clock's dial and a gravity-brake when the pointer is on the right side of the clock's dial.

15:33 nice beat 👍.

Just last week I resurrected one of those after being outside in the soil for five years.

Time flies when you're having fun....

Muito bem explicado. Parabéns

Gracias por el video. Saludos desde Lima Perú.

LMAO at the accent and the cat, I mean it in a nice way.

Thanks, my clock is not running and keeping excellent time just from the help of the first 13 min. of your video.

I have a cheap Chinese mechanism but it's old, sold like this it was £2.70 (probably £1.50 if bought direct) from a UK shop back in 1996. It looks very similar but it's not see through, same text. Same mounting but better plastic hands and has a buildt in Hook for wall mounting. One rechargeable AA lasts 3 years. Same constant movement style.

Here’s my cat coming to help me... Doesn’t help

You just invented a time machine at the end of your video,right ! A few years ago I bought a battery operated Seiko wall clock that had a quiet mechanism like that one,the clock was $60.00. I shutter to think it might have had a .79 cent movement in it. It was for my mom ,but I know the battery lasted for more than 1 year in the clock I gave her.

Very Nice

Czenglish hype

@homeschoolmamaself-care

5 жыл бұрын

Hype!

Constant running clocks are silent, so they may be good if you have trouble sleeping because of clock ticking

@johncoops6897

6 жыл бұрын

Anybody who has trouble sleeping due to a clock ticking needs to learn how to go to bed when properly tired.

@hafizmaulana8166

6 жыл бұрын

Max TheWinCat or you know, just buy a digital clock

This calc is amazing!

@DiodeGoneWild

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks :) I identified it as PRIVILEG 825MD that was produced in 1975 for only 1 year.

@user-se8wy2sj2j

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, and the C1-118 oscilloscope too (made in USSR ;). Especially its green line on the CRT screen...

The second hand of the clock is completely ruined, RIP 😔

are u speaking or singing :D

Thank you, I just fixed my cheap decorative clock. The minute only and one with seconds are different with ~ 3 - 4 more gears.

Very interesting video

I just watched 20 minutes of video about a man learning how a tiny clock part works. Tiny but a little bit complicated.

@rjones8508

6 жыл бұрын

Just Commenting ...and, loving it! (M. Smart)

@DiodeGoneWild

6 жыл бұрын

This clock's mechanical system is actually very simple. Something like my quarter striking clock is way more complex.

@crablover3106

6 жыл бұрын

Well for me its a little bit complicated. Beacause i dont know anything about mechanical stuff .lol

I tested a quartz movement (with smooth sweeping second hand) that I bought online for $9 shipped. It draws 0.17 mA.

Love the cat!

A decent sweep movement like the Young Town 12888 or SKP sweep is using less than 0.15 mA.

1:12 I love your antique Mauthe. i have a triple chime colonial of zeeland grandfather clock. i would love to here the chimes (assuming its westminster chime) of your antique clock.

The weak part of all those movements is the springy battery contacts, a little humidity is enough to corrode the pads on the PCB over the years. I have an old non-quartz version which has a balance wheel movement powered by a couple of coils and a single transistor board, once it starts moving it can run off a calculator solar panel, it's also adjustable.

@DiodeGoneWild

6 жыл бұрын

I also have several of those old clocks :). The mechanism is way more ineresting but also way less accurate. But i run them for the special ticking which is much more pleasing that the quartz ticking :).

my clocks hour hand is loose . it rotates easily what to do?

Nice video. 😍❤️💯👏

Thank you

Clock Gone Wild 😁👍

A small tip: You should first put cell from the positive terminal and then you can slide the negative terminal! (Only for clocks).

@DiodeGoneWild

6 жыл бұрын

You're right. Normally you put the negative in first, but clocks are the exception.

This is exactly like mine. Should be a cinch to reassemble. I was guessing and WAY off track! Thank you Mr. Callabash wherever you are. Anyone under 50 will have no clue as to what that means. POOR YOU!!! Db

I learned so much about quartz movement. Thanks. BTW, can I just change the solenoid instead of replacing the whole unit because the stem size for my old Bulova is no where to be found. It is only 7mm long. Besides, i can reuse the original hands.

The clock become crazy

Some quartz movements have 3 gears between the rotor and the second hand wheel.

Nice super speed clock xD

I've used these types of movements and the batteries I find last give or take a year before they stop.

i love your videos!

Please upload a video which shows demonstrating and explaining about quartz clock moment with quarter chiming system.

My dad used to make/repair clocks think he bought similar mechanisms. The ones he had you could see a tiny transistor next to the coil. Some of them are still working after 15 years or more

@DiodeGoneWild

6 жыл бұрын

I also have several of those old 1-transistor clocks :). Not very accurate, but more interesting and having a nice sound.

Just out of curiosity, do you collect those mechanical clocks? Or do you have just that one?

@thewatchworks1372

Жыл бұрын

I watch a lot of his videos, I can almost guarantee you that he has a somewhat sizable clock collection

Current consumption should be approx 200 microamps / 0.2ma for a 5168S or 6168S movement. Check the current consumption with just the stepper motor installed to start with. I suspect binding in the gear train. A small drop of light watch oil in the bottom of each of the pivot holes will reduce friction, wear and noise. FYI, the SEIKO variant of this type of 'sweep seconds' movement from the 1980's suffered terribly from excessive wear to the motor bearing cups and second hand wheel rear pivot, causing the plastic to turn to white powder.

@DiodeGoneWild

6 жыл бұрын

The current doesn't seem to change with the motor load. The problem is in the motor construction or in the driving method.

@tinylogic

6 жыл бұрын

You're right, I just measured the current consumption on one of my sweep hand movements and it measured around 210 microamps. I was curious because I get at least 2 years of battery life if not much more. This particular movement is made by SKP in China.

@solinus7131

5 ай бұрын

@@tinylogic SKP movements are made by Seiko, and as the OP mentioned, Seiko's been making sweep mechanisms since the 1980s, so they know what they are doing.

These cheap "sweep" movements are a real pain. As you say the battery life is terrible on them, and the worst part of it is they've completely taken over the cheap end of the market. It seems to be virtually impossible to get hold of the old-style mechanisms which moved once per second. They are also unreliable -- they start to malfunction as soon as the battery becomes weak, and eventually stop working at all.

@DiodeGoneWild

6 жыл бұрын

I have bought a wall clock about 2 months ago and it was the ticking mechanism, so those are probably still not extinct. But it is very loud and this may deter a lot of people.

@solinus7131

11 ай бұрын

There are good quality movements from Seiko (sweep and ticking)

Ahoj. Dost strojků v obyčejným provedení a v provedení "SWEEP" (zkoumáš jej v tomhle videu) jsem rozebral a úspěšně složil. Dovolím si uvést pár poznatků ze svýho výzkumu: Pohonným mechanizmem je krokový motorek - tzv. Lavetův motor. Tvarem pólových nádstavců je dán směr otáčení rotoru. využívá se toho, že rotor v klidu zaujímá jinou polohu, než má v situaci, kdy je cívka vybuzená. Aby správně fungoval, potřebuje mezi impulsy pauzu. Videem jsi mi potvrdil moji domněnku, že SWEEP verze pracuje s 8Hz taktováním. SWEEP provedení motorku má ve statoru navíc hliníkový pásek, který funguje jako vířivá brzda a změkčuje tak chod motorku - rotor navíc díky tomu, že je proveden jako setrvačník se otáčí plynule a nekrokuje. Některý rotory mají na sobě mosaznou podložku, některý celoplastový jsou provedeny jako hmotnější (tvoje verze). Na stejným principu, jako je výše uvedený Lavetův motor, pracují synchronní čerpadla v automatických pračkách. (Let English-speaking readers translate Google with a translator from Czech)

19:18 Instead of that, I just changed the crystal in the clock, so now "one minute" is just "26 seconds"! He-he... 😊

Cool!.

The continuous movement is hence not so popular, as it consumes more battery. If this clock is 8Hz motor frequency, the step movement will have a frequency of 1Hz. Also, the power consumption is equally less and hence step motor lasts for years.

Another geeeeeaaaar :)

The plastic clocks seem quite reliable too, i have not seen many fail.:-) I did think 32.768khz for the crystal, it used to be typical for cheap watches a long time ago. I would imagine that every plastic clock module has the same style of gearbox, china would have made it as simple as possible for cost of manufacture. Real clocks are loverly, but unless it's a real good quality one, it's not worth repairing it. Sad yes :-(

@SeanBZA

6 жыл бұрын

Those are manufactured entirely automatically, barely a human hand touches them from parts going in to clocks being packed at the end. As well they are pretty precise mechanisms, with most only drifting a few seconds per month overall, which means the manufacturers of the quartz crystals have some incredibly good control of the manufacturing process, yet still can produce a part for under a cent with that kind of accuracy. They went from the 1980's with having a bigger board with a DIP chip on them, crystal and 2 capacitors and a trimmer capacitor for the ones you were able to adjust for accuracy, to the modern one now where the PCB barely is big enough to hold the blob with the oscillator and divider inside there, the crystal and the 2 pads for power along with the wire for the coil, all under the coil. Overall the clock is the same, but I am still looking to get some with the chime mechanism built into them, bought some in the 1980's and they still run, though i want to get more.

@zx8401ztv

6 жыл бұрын

I always thought that china used young people to assemble precise things, being that there dexterity is really good, older people do have more problems, i know as im an old git lol :-D Im waiting to see what country is going to be the next china, if you know what i mean.

@DiodeGoneWild

6 жыл бұрын

It's reliable because it's mechanically simple. The accuracy system has been moved from mechanics to electronics. There are so many different frequencies of high frequency crystals (in MHz ranges), but there's just one and single standard frequency of a low-frequency crystal. That's the famous 32768 Hz. Real clocks (the mechanical ones) are definitely worth repairing. The old ones are still like 10x cheaper than the modern ones mady by companies that still make them (like German compaly Hermle).

@DiodeGoneWild

6 жыл бұрын

Battery powered clocks went through quite some progress. The first ones were in fact mechanical clocks with a spring, but when the spring ran out, a motor or electromagnet would wind it (this was called an electric clock). Then there were so called electronic clocks having still the accuracy set by a mechanical oscillator, but powered by a coil. Those had just a single transistor and a double coil (the other coil was a feedback driving the base of the transistor just like in a joule thief). And then, the quartz clocks came in...

@zx8401ztv

6 жыл бұрын

DiodeGoneWild. Ahh, i have seen one in an old car that is a real mechanical clock but once in a while you hear a short zzzip noise, the 12 volts is for the auto winder. I think it was a german made clock, as you said there are different versions of a battery run clock.

Great informative video But I felt sleepy at end

To measure the power needed to run the movement you should use a 1.5VDC regulated power supply, measure the current consumption and then calculate power. To find out how long the battery will run you need to determine the minimum operating voltage, measure current and then calculate power again. Power consumption will most likely change with battery terminal voltage. Knowing this you can consult the battery manufacturers specifications on the battery capacity as related to discharge rate. Capacity is rated at a constant current draw and then plotted. As the battery current increases the capacity will be reduced.

19:42 How you done that?? Directly connected to coil or connected to the place of the crystal??

Works for the base level Ikea clocks too

I Like The Way You Speakkkkk

Hi, will you make a teardown of some old polish poduct? You're near Poland so I thing you have some device from this country :)

Is it possible to convert it to a ticking second hand...to reduce batt consumption?

Very interesting....will the clock still work if I disarmed the second hand to try and stop the clock ticking...as I have mine in my bedroom.

Can I turn it into a turbo clock using 555 oscillator?? Why ask that question?? Of course, you can turn anything into anything. Very nice video.

8:09 I noticed a cat paw. What a distraction

Nice cat 🙀 ☺

That "very niiiiice" is JoJo approved

@paulf1071

5 жыл бұрын

From heeeeere to heeeeeeere.

Excellent work truly amazing ... can u share me the circuit to speed up the clock speed

hello very good video I would like to know if I put a duracell battery can it last longer?