Therefore, I added more deep cuts to the count wheel, now five in total.
This means that the escapement should be triggered every 30/5 = 6 pendulum periods, or every 12 seconds. The pin wheel has 30 pins, so will then have a period of 12 seconds * 30 = 360 seconds = 6 minutes. The pin wheel is driven through a 1:10 mesh for the drive wheel, so it should make a rotation every hour. I can therefore drive the minute hand from the drive wheel, although it will run counter clockwise.
With some tuning, the Clock 4 runs with 8 lb of drive weight, directly driving a barrel of 1.2 inches. The clock's run isn't perfect, as (1) the count wheel double counts immediately following an impulse and (2) sometimes this double-counting skips over an impulse.
But given these issues, Theodore measures the following periods in current configuration:
- 53 seconds for the count wheel
- 4 minutes 24 seconds for pin wheel
Given these measurements the drive barrel will make one rotation about every 44 minutes. In that time, the weight will have dropped 3.7 inches.
Thus the power consumed is:
3.7 inches / (12 in/ft) * 8 lb / (44 min * (60 s/min)) = 9.4 * 10^(-4) ft lb / s = 1.28 mW
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