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News... Clock Control Systems The Cumbria Clock company has made a substantial investment in developing microprocessor based control systems that meet the exacting needs of both antiquarian and modern clock control, both retro-fit and new installation. Using common mechanical, electronic and software modules, gives the opportunity to offer high quality systems at an affordable price. All the products described below can all be integrated in any combination to meet most needs. Automatic Clock Regulation The latest product available form 3rd April 2002, AutoReg. (Patent Application No. 0129930.4) A system that will keep pendulum type clocks automatically regulated using atomic clock radio broadcasts as its reference. Also now available with the AutoChange option, that will automatically adjust the clock to local wintertime and summertime changes. The system is very discrete, and does not require any material changes to be made to the clock, thus maintaining conservational integrity. Synchronous Motor Clock Control Recognising the need for existing motor synchronous clock installations to meet the modern day need for accuracy and free from regular maintenance, we have developed our AutoSync unit to fit unit that generates a precision mains supply regulated via atomic clock broadcasts for super accuracy, backup supply and winter/summertime changes all in one unit that also uses a modified output that is kinder to the electric motor seeking to gain further longevity. To provide fail-safe time keeping, if a power failure is greater than the current battery life (typically 24hrs), then the unit goes into auto-restart mode and will stop the clock, and restart at the correct time when the power is restored. Includes hour strike electro-hammer output as standard with night silencing. Westminster and Ting-Tang quarter strike available as an optional extra. Master Clock Control Using industry standard hybrid stepping motor technology, the AutoDrive clock system reproduces the hand sweeping and look of conventional pendulum clocks. Linked to atomic clock broadcasts, the clock will always display the broadcast time and will carry out the winter/summertime changes in seconds. Includes hour strike electro-hammer output as standard with night silencing. Westminster and Ting-Tang quarter strike available as an optional extra. Electronic Chime Control The AutoChime system provides faithful reproduction of all kinds of chimes by using high quality samples of bells at CD quality (16 bit, 44.1Khz sampling rate) via various speaker options. And by using the latest audio processing techniques, provides flexible rendering of bell strike characteristics and multiple bell sound interaction. Long Case Clock - Auto-winder and Regulator Currently under development, and due for release in December 2002, an affordable auto-winder and clock regulation system that can be fitted to the majority of long case clocks, that requires no material changes to be made to the clock and it's case. The regulator uses either a quartz based oscillator or Rugby radio option to regulate the clock via low level magnetic interaction with the pendulum and when fitted with the auto-winder, is very discrete and quiet in operation, and can be removed easily for transfer to another clock.
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