Alarm clock lasted over two decades and somehow knows when daylight savings is stillSubmitted by VapeMySemen t3_z3x4gl in BuyItForLife
[deleted] t1_ixo73jx wrote
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I had a clock that synced with NIST or some other org which was really freaking cool.... until the sync broke and was always 10 minutes off. Set it manually and about an hour or 2 later it was back to being 10 minutes off.
Was a bit sad when I got rid of it
haemaker t1_ixo9blp wrote
What a strange bug.
[deleted] t1_ixo9ta7 wrote
Yup. I'm guessing that there was a slight low/high voltage issue somewhere in there that was skewing it, but I wasn't going to tear it apart, figure out what component needed to be repaired/replaced, repair/replace said component, and hope that it fixed it. It would have taken hours and by that point my phone was a more reliable alarm so I got rid of it.
turbocomppro t1_ixpk0f7 wrote
If it’s like a decade old, possible it’s just a simple capacitor. They tend to bulge and/or leak when they go bad so easy to spot. They are cheap and pretty simple to replace with a cheap $10 soldering iron.
A lot of TVs have this problem as well. Pretty much the whole TV is still good. Just a $1 capacitor on the power supply board blew.
loganwachter t1_ixouaz8 wrote
My clock does this! It’s always 10min 22sec off.
yvonneb28 t1_ixp1zew wrote
Mine does this as well, is yours slow or fast? Mine is fast, which is at least better than being slow
loganwachter t1_ixp24pv wrote
It varies. DST it’s slow. When it’s not DST its fast. Always by the same amount of time.
yvonneb28 t1_ixp1urf wrote
Mine is off 10 minutes too! Out of curiosity, do you remember if yours was slow or fast? Mine was fast, I was early to so much shit before I figured it out
vff t1_ixqsfup wrote
Is it an analog or digital clock? For the analog ones, there is a synchronization procedure so it can “learn” the positions of the hands (it doesn’t know where they are; it learns them once then remembers how far it’s moved them). This needs to be repeated periodically, such as when changing batteries.
yvonneb28 t1_ixr7uda wrote
It’s digital, it’s only a few years old too, 5 at the most. It’s one of those ones with multiple functions, but everything else seems to work fine.
[deleted] t1_ixq4eka wrote
I want to say fast, but might have been slow. It’s been a number of years.
RamenWrestler t1_ixovqit wrote
So why not set it 10min off to begin with to cancel it out
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