The Electromechanical Pendulum of the 36 Master Clock 

So... Your museum now has a literal heartbeat!!!! IT'S ALIVE!!!

I can imagine a kid and going there and everything just blowing their mind like visiting Edison’s lab did mine when I was young.

Amazing Sam! PLEASE hook up the Teletubby Tidal Wave to that hourly sync pulse, for some sweet sweet TtTW action on the hour, every hour! 😀

Out of sync timing ---- I've got three Casio VL Tones, start them all at the same time with a basic rhythm pattern and the result is amazing.

Your work ethic and drive is incredible, you inspire me every day. Thank you for being you!

Wished I lived across the pond to go to the museum. Sadly, I don't. But to those that can go, enjoy it for us Yankee's please. Sam, keep up the hard work. Been following you for a while on here and you have grown A LOT and deservingly so, you make quality videos.

That 30 second switch can be used to synchronize a Gent's waiting train movement. You could run your own tower clock!

Cool, i knew you'd figure a way to interface it with some sound devices. Excellent work👍

This is so freaking cool, a true master clock!!

Great show of the synchronome, the Hipp toggle and eletro magnet sounds quiter than the gravity arm sytle. Wonderful to see it integrated as intended.

This ain’t your grandfather’s clock. Or is it…?

Artist residence, guest stars visiting the videos and livestreams, collaborations - just WOW, let me just say that this is gonna be BIG. Nothing like this has never been done before in the history of internet. This is what happens when people get to work on what they love.

Interesting. I've just got a Synchronome master clock running for a local publican. Whilst it also uses a similar pendulum, the mechanism is rather different.

What you've created Sam is just so amazing.Stay mad and unique.Reg Plasma.

Make a GameBoy MiniMachine with 4-6 units and make it semi-modular or even a GameBoy MicroMachine with 1-3 units and top it off with dials & a keyboard. That would fit well into the museum.

Wow cool

These master clocks were also used in some UK nuclear bunkers during the cold war, in particular at UK Warning and Monitoring Organisation controls. There is one at Kelvedon Hatch.

Hi, I have a Gents and a synchronome 36 there great fun, I like your video.

I’ve got exactly the same master clock & 1pm relay, need to get it on the wall and running!

my dad has one of the in his Home workshop Still works but needs new Battery pack

It looks really good with that glow next to it! Great job getting it set up!

With another clock your museum is going to sound like the start of back to the future 1

I PM ball drop from the roof? Wire to a speaking clock pulse?

....and we are not going to mention the coffin in the background?!! :D

The museum is looking better by the day. It's quite impressive and a beautiful thing to behold these items being preserved and displayed.

I love these electromechanical devices and it's great that you keep this one alive and will even use it to control other things. I still have a Bosch electromechanical clock that has been ticking for decades. It has a balance wheel like a mechanical clock, but it's not driven by a mainspring but instead by some magnetic coils that give a pulse to permanent magnets mounted on a wheel on the same axis. The pulse is given as a delayed response to the magnets passing across the coils. It's fairly accurate and runs for many years on a single C cell.

Not trying to rush you, or expecting it, but I seem to remember you saying something about a drum section because the gameboy megamachine I only a 6x 8 pixel screen and requires another 3 rows just asking🙂

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I want that shirt!! 💕💕

I don't know if this is too pedestrian but you should consider putting up some slave clocks around the museum synchronized to this. You definitely want it to control more than just audio.

Are you open to the public post Covid.Am in Somerset don't know where you are

If I ever come by. Can I bring my own headphones and an audio recorder?

You should get a third one and power it's energising coil from another pendulum. If they're almost exactly the same speed, but slightliest off, you should end up with a swing that increases and decreases in amplitude, creating a really slow pendulum powered electromechanical LFO. One could say a LFPPEMO.

Super interested, just not within the UK so passing by is difficult XD

Is this the master clock also connected to Synchronome bell Sync sequencer as I remember it also needed a master clock in put as well ?

Mind-blowing stuff!

That’s a pretty neat mechanism, for me there’s something very relaxing about the sound of the ticking pendulum. It makes me think of time, and the beauty of systems that run like clockwork like the Japanese railways who are known for their high precision in keeping up with the time table. Their trains appearantly never run late. They’re always on time.

You have just sent me down a rabbit hole of master clock videos

I made a crude Hipp escapement clock many years ago and yes, it's a bugger to setup.

This is like walking into an oversized electro-mechanical computer. Turning a Strowger Telephone Exchange into a walkable home (museum) automation computer.

Quite the pendulous rod you got there!

cool

i wonder what this is useful in a telephone exchange for. Is it for the billing? So they can count the minutes a call takes?

Are you going to sync up the bell timer?

Awesome work on this it looks amazing! That spark looks a bit big, is there a main relay before going to all devices that are synchronized? If not you could add one to improve the lifetime of the contactor

I'd be so up for a residency!

Love it