Clock upgrade

tim wood · Post by **tim wood** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 8:15 pm

Hi,
does anyone have experience of the clock upgrade offered by Mike Eck? sometimes through Cool Cat Corp
Is it possible to get this work done in the UK ?

like most my clock doesn't work

regards to all

Tim

Post by **1954Etype** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 8:22 pm

A number of peiple I know have had it done (including me). Don't think you can get the work done in the UK. Mine runs really slow and Mike thinks it could be a bad earth (haven't checked it yet). If there is a problem, Mike will put it right if I ship the clock back to him (after 2 years).

Angus

Post by **Heuer** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 8:35 pm

+1 Mike Ecke - clock works superbly and is very accurate.

daverawle · Post by **daverawle** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 9:25 pm

Mine isn't good, stops randomly after 1 year but I haven't talked to Mike about it yet. I just suspect it's a typical electro-mechanical issue so will look for a modern (quartz) solution.

Dave

kingzetts · Post by **kingzetts** » Fri Jun 10, 2011 8:46 am

I had my clock "upgraded" by a UK supplier but it was not a success. I sent two clocks (I had a non-working one which came with a rev counter I picked up to experiment with) to Mike Eck and got back one converted clock which so far (18 months) is keeping excellent time. Mike was a pleasure to deal with into the bargain so +1 for his service.

PeterCrespin · Post by **PeterCrespin** » Fri Jun 10, 2011 8:55 am

I think Dave Rawle's might have been one of a batch I took over to the USA one time for Angus, Dave, John et al and they were all OK except mine, I thought. It was some years before I tried mine in a car but it has never worked.

Mike is nice and will check/fix it for free but I've just never got round to removing it to send back when I'm over there. He'll also do polarity coversions I believe, if you need a positive earth clock but only have a negative earth core or vice versa. I think Dave Kerr's was a changeover - not sure.

I tend to use a battery isolator for anything longer than about a week, which is admittedly fairly rare even in winter, and also for security when parking somewhere public. It messes up radio station storage and the clock, although I could run a separate feed for those I suppose, or use one of those in-line fuse bridges at the negative terminal (though that partly defeats the storage objective of avoiding battery depletion.

Pete

Dave K · Post by **Dave K** » Sat Jun 11, 2011 7:42 am

I had mine done by Mike Eck in fact I sent a batch of about 12 over which Pete Crespin brought back. Mine works but runs slow. I did ask Mike about this and he said it is within spec.

I believe John McLaughlin did and upgrade that works OK. I'll ask him.

Dave

daverawle · Post by **daverawle** » Sat Jun 11, 2011 10:06 am

Dave K wrote:
I believe John McLaughlin did and upgrade that works OK. I'll ask him.

Dave

John kindly sent me the parts for the quartz upgrade (still haven't got 'round to fitting it

). The basis of it is a watch mechanism of the type that can be set with a push button, which is fitted where the knurled knob locates under the dash.

Dave

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