Troubleshooting
Sometimes a mechanism just doesn't want to run or strike correctly - despite pretty much everything looking like it should want to run. On those occasions I set up the mechanism, with its pendulum, on a bench next to my main bench and hook up both a beat amplifier (Time Trax), as well as a beat monitor (Bryan Mumford's Microset) that allows me to plot the beat and/or strikes on my computer monitor, which sits above my main bench. This gallery gives you an idea of how I set all this up.
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Impact of Increasing Weight
This slide combines the data in the previous slide with the data in the next slide, and includes the transition period between when the mechanism was running on 3 pounds and when it had settled in at 10 pounds. Interesting to note that it took around 8 turns of the escape wheel to stabilize.
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