Re: Can you regulate Quartz

Engineer wrote:
Frank Adam wrote:

Yep, me too. It just reminded me of an old thread, where a perfectly
good conversation turned into a 'pot calling the cap a trimmer' thing.

Do you refer to "dialing" a phone that has buttons instead of a dial?

I "call" someone


Do you refer to a "sunset" even though the horizon is going up?

dunno, the sun disappears behind some hills when it goes down, don't see no horizon, besides relative to the viewer the horizon doesn't move.


Do you refer to a "gas pedal" when the car is electric?

accelerator, irrelevant of what powers the vehicle.


Do you refer to a "throttle" on a motorcycle with fuel injection?

its a throttle, again irrelevant of what fuel system or for that matter of what powers the bike, fuel or electric.


Do you refer to a "pot" even though the part is wired in the rheostat (2 terminal variable resistance) configuration instead of a the
potentiometer (3 terminals, fixed voltages at the ends, variable
output voltage at the wiper) configuration?


quartz watches use a trimmer Capacitor or trim cap where fitted, no-one in the trade calls them pots.

now a question for you, why is it the worst stuffed up clock repairs I see at times has been done by an "engineer", specially when they try to "improve" the clock, like a few years ago when I had an 1800s english longcase clock that the "engineer" had fitted ball races to the great wheels! grrrrr.
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