05-22-2003, 03:57 PM
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Ghostly Clock?
I have cheap plastic small clock in my room. imagine it cost only a few pound, it says Quartz on the face if that means anything. At anyrate, I took the battery out of it last night to get to sleep (one of them night, where everything bugs you), hoping it would stop ticking, however 24hours later it is still going and keeping time????
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05-22-2003, 04:13 PM
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Don't worry about that, only start to worry when it starts making demonic noises and it's hands starts spinning so fast it begins to fly.
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05-22-2003, 04:15 PM
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You also might want to try unplugging it. 
j/k
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05-22-2003, 08:58 PM
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Something like that happened to me with a fire detector ... it didn't have ANY battery or power and the blasted thing still kept beeping!
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05-22-2003, 09:24 PM
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Haha, funny thingy. I'd wish my alarm clock would be like yours 
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05-23-2003, 07:06 AM
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lol.. so do I.. now that would be handy..
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05-23-2003, 08:54 AM
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is it solar powered by any chance
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05-23-2003, 10:05 AM
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I read somewhere that any quartz in a product gives it energy..
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05-23-2003, 10:09 AM
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Are you sure it's not part-digital and part-windup? It might be storing power in a capacitor but I doubt it would do that for 24 hours.
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05-23-2003, 10:20 AM
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I think it's time to take a trip to the train tracks  .
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05-23-2003, 10:27 AM
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Quote:
Originally posted by stephenM
It might be storing power in a capacitor
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That was my guess. I don't imagine it takes a large amount of current to power that clock, so it may have been deliberately done that way in case the battery ever failed.
Do you know how long the caps in CRTs last while unplugged? Yikes!
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