What is the purpose of having a separate pendulum attached to the escapement? Why can't the escapement act as the pendulum as well? Where does the quarts crystal fit into this? Is that what the smaller gear in the center represents?
and here's a view without the dial, transparency on all the parts, and visualizing all the forces with vector lines for torque, power, angular momentum, and you can watch as the escapement is impulsed with power and as torque is transferred up the drive train from tooth to tooth, and turns to angular momentum in the hands through the center wheel and with regular momentum variations in the weight which powers it. no motors, just weight driven.
https://youtu.be/tYSphNR6XoY
@1,233,135 (B)
because if you hang the pendulum on the escapement then you are placing the entire load of the pendulum directly on the pivots and that's not how clocks work. you hang the pendulum from a suspension to carry the load and this allows the escapement to impulse the pendulum efficiently. not to mention that the escapement has gears beneath it, and the pendulum has no room to swing, so it needs to be offset somewhere and you do that by suspending it and attaching a crutch to the escapement that connects to the pendulum. not to mention the sensitivity of the pendulum requires it.
the quartz crystal you mean, you fucking imbecile.
the small gear in the center? it's called a pinon you dipshit, and it's there because it represents your chances of a "gotcha." let me spell it out for you. the first wheel is a 96/12 reduction in your chances. it takes 8 hours to make one full revolution. this drives the center wheel which further reduces your chances by 96/12, 48/12 and 45/15 as it drives the minute hand directly off the arbor and drives the motion works for the hour hand. notice how all these numbers happen to be ratios. Normally the hour hand and minute hand shafts would be concentric using a cannon pinon over the intermediate pinionand the the hour hand pipe would be perfectly aligned with the minute hand. unfortunately it's only got the one kind of gear and i'm limited in what can be made. although all of the gears are hand cut, and the escapement wheel and the ratchet on the cable drum are entirely hand made.
from the center wheel, the 3rd wheel further reduces your chances by 90/13, and this powers the escape wheel which has 30 teeth, and a 12 tooth pinion. the deadbeat, or Graham escapement as it's also known, impulses a 2 second pendulum, which measures 39 inches and change. i went ahead and remade this part because it was bothering me that it wouldn't fall on it's dead faces. much like you bother that you're not doing the same thing.
what else do you need me to explain to you about quartz crystals? i met the dude that invented them at Texas Instruments. they're actually shaped like little tiny tuning forks and are inside a little bitty cylinder and they oscillate because of the piezoelectric effect. by the way, you're a fucking retard.
@1,233,137 (C)
no
@previous (D)
thanks! it's super basic. it could only be made simpler by using an anchor escapement, which requires much less precision than a dead beat, but dead beat clocks are in the best regulators when it comes to standard mechanical timepieces. they're also the best sounding clocks imo.
@previous (spectacles)
Why are you being so aggressive to someone trying to understand and learn?
"that's not how clocks work" is not an explanation. It's an appeal to authority. Let's try this again: why do the gears need need to be directly underneath the escapement? If they weren't, then the escapement could also double as the pendulum and the design would be simpler. Not sure why I'm the first to think this up...?
And I'm pretty sure that you didn't meet the "dude that invented" invented quarts. It's found all over the earth.
@previous (B)
Because you are a troll intentionally asking stupid questions.
@previous (B)
who the hell cares? which one of you stole timmy?
@previous (spectacles)
I care. I asked. And I wasn't talking to you. And when I did talk to you, you just ignored my questions, like usual:
@1,233,152 (B) @1,233,167 (B)
Your worst fucking nightmare, you piece of shit.
@previous (D)
This hostility is exactly why Green left.