David Looser wrote:
Nobody has mentioned the option of MSF control. Apart from anything else it
avoids the maintenance liability of battery backup, yet self resets after a
power cut.

What's this "MSF control", please, David?

Rang two or three Sony 0870 numbers yesterday for information on the UK
model I'm interested in, to report the Sony website states it has
"Battery backup" and yet reviewers say it hasn't and one Sony shop
assistant I got through to inspected the machine thoroughly and says it
is completely sealed (nowhere for battery replacement). Each Sony
person I got through seemed only able to scroll through exactly the same
documentation as I have on the Sony webpages! Have been promised a
call-back from some tiny-voiced young female responsible for Sony
production enquiries . . . but haven't heard anything yet. It appears
these big corporations make the things, give you the option of buying
them or not, but simply don't make personal specialist expertise
available.

Eddy.

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On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:17:50 GMT, Eddy
wrote:

Phil Allison wrote:


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"Eddy" wrote in message
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David Looser wrote:
Nobody has mentioned the option of MSF control. Apart from anything else
it
avoids the maintenance liability of battery backup, yet self resets after
a
power cut.

What's this "MSF control", please, David?

MSF is the call-sign of the UK's standard time transmission, radiated on a
frequency of 60kHz. If you aren't in the UK there are similar transmissions
in other countries.

These days there are many "Radio-Controlled" clocks, including radio alarm
clocks, available at prices not much above those of ordinary clocks. They
have the definite advantage of being self-setting, including after power
cuts and when daylight-saving time starts and ends.

I can't be bothered with battery back-up. IME the batteries run down without
you noticing so that the clock still stops when the power goes off. And all
the ones I've seen use expensive PP3 type batteries.

David.

In article , Eddy eddy.bentl
scribeth thus
David Looser wrote:
Nobody has mentioned the option of MSF control. Apart from anything else it
avoids the maintenance liability of battery backup, yet self resets after a
power cut.

What's this "MSF control", please, David?


Its a radio time signal transmitted by this lot!..

http://www.npl.co.uk/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.998



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Eddy wrote:

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This is not a moderated group you nitwit.

Graham

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"Eddy" wrote in message
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Phil Allison wrote:


"Dave Plowman Nutcase LIAR"



** You are one EVIL pile of sub-human garbage - Plowman.

IOW - a typical pommy ****.





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Eddy. You ain't seen nothin' yet:-)
Our Phil is just getting warmed up!

"Eddy" wrote in message
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Don Pearce wrote:
You can certainly buy a mains voltage converter for it (won't cost you
much more than a new clock radio, probably :-). But if this is like
most of them, it uses the mains frequency to run the clock. 50Hz vs
60Hz mains will make it run very slow.

Er . . . ah . . . yes, I think I am familiar with a "mains voltage
converter". VERY HEAVY blockish thing, about 9" x 9"?

Eddy.

It's called a TRANSFORMER duh.