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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Shifting Beat Monitoring
This is what happens when one goes from monitoring both the tick and the tock to monitoring only one of them - by skipping every other beat. This is a nice feature on the Microset.
On this plot, I started out monitoring both the tick and the tock. Then, about 75% of the way from left to right, I changed the Microset to monitor only every other beat. Note - I also increased the scale on both the X and Y axis...
