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Modding Quartz WallClock

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rathfon

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I'm in school right now and I am wearing a Quartz clock (yes, like Flava Flav). It's "80s day" or something, so I've decided to take advantage of it. It's a wall clock. I wanted to take off the little motor on the back and make the second hand spin atleast ten times what it does. But, if I get the motor off, I'm wondering does anyone have the simplest idea how I could make it move the hands faster. I guess, 'tell time wrong.'
 
Not really. There really isn't a motor. There is an electronic circuit that is timed by a quartz crystal, hence the name "quartz clock". Every second it pulses a magnet that turns 180 degrees or so (depends on the clock) every second which turns a gear a little bit. You probably can't modify that without modifying the crystal so you are left with a mechanical modification to the gears or something. Not going to be easy.
 
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