I can't seem to get my local power company interested, but I suspect they are the cause of the problem. I've got numerous AC powered digital clocks in VCRs, DVRs, microwave ovens and clock-radios. The appliances are all made by different manufacturers. Some were purchased this year and some are more than 10 years old. All run fast, several seconds/day. I have no problems with brownouts, flickering lights, etc. I use only typical home appliances and most of them were used in my previous homes (in other cities) where the older digital clocks that are now running fast kept almost perfect time.Doing a little research on the web, I found an article "Solving the Fast Clock Problem" which can be viewed at this link: article leads me to believe that my problem is external to my home. I do not own an oscilloscope or any other sophisticated electrical analysis equipment and I don't want to spend the money to hire an electrical engineer to assess the quality of the power being supplied to my home. All the "power conditioners" I've explored seem quite expensive.Some of the clocks that are running fast are plugged into surge strips that have EMI/RFI suppression built-in, so I doubt that an additonal EMI/RFI filter would solve my problem.Is there a simple, inexpensive solution to my problem or am I condemned to resetting about 7 digital clocks each week if I want my wake up when I want to and record TV programs when they are broadcast rather than before they start and miss the endings?

Although it is easy to blame the power company, I would have to say it is not their fault or problem. The business of the power company is just that, to supply you with power. Nothing within providing that service indicates they're responsible to provide a clock timing pulse. This business of clocks being accurate falls back to the manufactures. It's up to them to make a product that works correctly. Instead of building an accurate clock, they've taken the cheaper shortcut of trying to use the 60 Hz power line as the timing circuit.

My AC digital clocks run fast. Cheap fix?

Nov 15, 2009 66 Replies

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krw 16 years ago

What's wrong, AlwaysWrong? Am I making the poor baby cry over mommy's spilled hamper?

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krw 16 years ago

Oh! More threats from DimBulb! Keep it up, you're gaining friends.

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Pieyed Piper 16 years ago

And yet your claim that they are off by several minutes per month is accurate?

Bullshit. You are the one that is off the mark by orders of magnitude here, you dippy twit.

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Pieyed Piper 16 years ago

Come back when you know what the word threat means.

Someone declaring their opinion of "what you need" is NOT in any way, NOR will it ever be, in any way, a threat.

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krw 16 years ago

No, DimBulb, I claim that being off several minutes per month is *not* accurate, yet some are.

AlwaysWrong is, *SURPRISE* everyone, always wrong. Why don't you give up while there may still be someone out there who doesn't know how dim you are, DimBulb.

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krw 16 years ago

AlwaysWrong is just so cute when he's so wrong.

Wrong again, AlwaysWrong. You are so cute when you're foaming at the mouth though. Your mommy's hamper is still waiting.

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Michael A. Terrell 16 years ago

Yeah. He's all forked up, as usual. :(

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