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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER the spark when the seconds tick, we can see it especially when the pendulum swings back from the left position, but maybe that’s normal even with the relay
@@lululombard yeah might wanna have a look at the capacitor on those contacts, sparking like that will eat the contacts in no time unless the camera is just super sensitive and showing sparks really well
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🙂
Yep that’s another thing I’ll be wiring it into those pay meters are the black things in the middle of the rack those are powered by an intermediate relay set I’m getting hold of soon which is synced by the clock in the vid 👍👍👍
A telephone exchange could have many wall clocks, large exchanges had several floors of apparatus rooms, power rooms, offices, welfare rooms, staff restaurant, kitchen, operator switchroom, night staff, all these had clocks so needed to be kept synchronised, other large post office owned buildings would have had syncronised wall clocks as well.
This is like walking into an oversized electro-mechanical computer. Turning a Strowger Telephone Exchange into a walkable home (museum) automation computer.
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! 😀
Haha good idra
Idea
Your work ethic and drive is incredible, you inspire me every day. Thank you for being you!
That 30 second switch can be used to synchronize a Gent's waiting train movement. You could run your own tower clock!
Well I guess I should find one. What’s the term for them?
I have an old selectric clock I wonder if that could hook up?
@@highpath4776 depends if it’s a clock that required external sync or not
You have just sent me down a rabbit hole of master clock videos
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.
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 is so freaking cool, a true master clock!!
sooooo quality timekeeping, long before the age of chips. long long. we had one of those clocks at my secondary school - sixties. swinging
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.
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As a Yank, if I do ever get across the pond, the museum is on my MUST VISIT list!
The museum is looking better by the day. It's quite impressive and a beautiful thing to behold these items being preserved and displayed.
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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.
It looks really good with that glow next to it! Great job getting it set up!
Wished I could go there so badly an play with everything.
@@DrMurdercock omg yes! Though to be honest I would be scared to touch anything because my hands shake a lot😅
What you've created Sam is just so amazing.Stay mad and unique.Reg Plasma.
I’ve got exactly the same master clock & 1pm relay, need to get it on the wall and running!
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.
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.
Hi, I have a Gents and a synchronome 36 there great fun, I like your video.
Cool, i knew you'd figure a way to interface it with some sound devices. Excellent work👍
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Wow cool
Quite the pendulous rod you got there!
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.
Mind-blowing stuff!
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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.
I PM ball drop from the roof? Wire to a speaking clock pulse?
I made a crude Hipp escapement clock many years ago and yes, it's a bugger to setup.
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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.
I'd be so up for a residency!
Keep an eye out! No idea when but some point sooon ish not soon but not not soon
Super interested, just not within the UK so passing by is difficult XD
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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 ?
No I figured that ones cooler being controlled at whatever speed but everything else will be yeah
Love it
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.
I would if I could find em cheap
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
Which spark? Also that’s what that box is doing that’s a relay amplifier
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER the spark when the seconds tick, we can see it especially when the pendulum swings back from the left position, but maybe that’s normal even with the relay
@@lululombard yeah might wanna have a look at the capacitor on those contacts, sparking like that will eat the contacts in no time unless the camera is just super sensitive and showing sparks really well
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🙂
Yeah I dunno! Maybe maybe not
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER up to you, I mean the megamachine is pretty damn good by itself!
....and we are not going to mention the coffin in the background?!! :D
Are you going to sync up the bell timer?
No because I think that is cool being at random speeds :D
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.
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?
Yep that’s another thing I’ll be wiring it into those pay meters are the black things in the middle of the rack those are powered by an intermediate relay set I’m getting hold of soon which is synced by the clock in the vid 👍👍👍
A telephone exchange could have many wall clocks, large exchanges had several floors of apparatus rooms, power rooms, offices, welfare rooms, staff restaurant, kitchen, operator switchroom, night staff, all these had clocks so needed to be kept synchronised, other large post office owned buildings would have had syncronised wall clocks as well.
This is like walking into an oversized electro-mechanical computer. Turning a Strowger Telephone Exchange into a walkable home (museum) automation computer.
The markers in a crossbar exchange are almost computers. They just lack stored program control.
Are you open to the public post Covid.Am in Somerset don't know where you are
yep. i mean its open now. ramsgate
If I ever come by. Can I bring my own headphones and an audio recorder?
yes
my dad has one of the in his Home workshop Still works but needs new Battery pack
cool
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This ain’t your grandfather’s clock. Or is it…?
Ha nooo that ones hanging in me flat
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