On Jul 1, 8:46 pm, "aemeijers" wrote:
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On Jul 1, 1:21 pm, dpb wrote:
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On Jul 1, 11:09 am, wrote:
I just wired up an Intermatic T103 timer. I noticed after 12 hours
the timer seems to be moving to fast (12 hours registered about 13
hours on the timer). Could I have a wiring issue or is this just a
faulty clock timer? TIA.

Sometimes the manufacturers screw up and put the wrong
timer motor into a piece of equipment. I have seen a 50hz
motor in a timer that was supposed to for 60hz. If you take
the timer out of it's case and look at the back you should
be able to see the motor which will have the voltage and
frequency printed on it.

I didn't stop initially to consider values, but (60/50)/(13/12) ~ 1.1
which is within 10% of the difference OP observed. Not an unlikely
hypothesis. Maybe he ordered the wrong subseries???

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I was in a W.W. Grainger supply house a few years
ago where they had a new wall clock that had been
returned by a customer. The clock kept perfect time,
except for the fact that it was running backwards.
The turkeys wouldn't sell it to me.

Chuckle. A house my family had for a couple years back in the late 60s had a
built-into-the-paneled-wall kitchen clock like that. (Shaft stuck through
paneling, little brass squares that served as the numbers stuck to paneling
around it. Very Trendy for about a month in '66) Every time the power
blipped during a thunderstorm, it would start running backwards. Nobody ever
cared enough to pull it out from the access hatch in the pantry behind and
diagnose it. We just ignored it, or if company was coming, flipped the
breaker off and on.

aem sends...

Don't you just love it when devices act in an anomalous
fashion?

[8~{} Uncle Monster