I’ve said it before: Wifey’s cuckoo clock is not a precision instrument.
As I’ve been timing and adjusting it to get accurate timekeeping, it has behaved strangely. At one point, it was losing 0.3208 seconds per hour over 25 hours. Accordingly, I adjusted it to make it slightly faster but it lost .4413 seconds per hour over the next 23 hours.
Now, I was reasonably certain I had *increased* speed but it became slower. Strange. I gave it a hefty speed increase again.
Over the next 54 hours, it lost an average of just 0.1015 seconds per hour. Nice.
I decided to make no adjustment and instead see how consistent it would be. It lost 0.30 seconds average over the next 24 hours. Again making no adjustment, it lost 32.62 seconds over the next 50 hours for an average of 0.6524 seconds lost per hour.
So, with no adjustment, it had gone from .10 seconds lost per hour to .65 seconds lost per hour. It seems to be slowing. Will it settle out after it is sufficiently broken in? Is it dying?
I gave it another speed increase because I’d prefer it to be too fast rather than too slow. Once I get it running slightly fast, I’m going to time it repeatedly with no adjustments to see how consistent it is.
Tick tock.