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I'm glad they only thought about it, but did not implement SF6 flooding of the chamber. No need to vent it to the atmosphere just for fun. But controlling the
by schobi 2y ago
I'm glad they only thought about it, but did not implement SF6 flooding of the chamber. No need to vent it to the atmosphere just for fun.
But controlling the internal pressure? I would expect that only a small difference would be needed - far from exploding or imploding the clock! Maybe small enough to have a reservoir and control only inlet and outlet valves?
This could be done purely without modifications of the mechanism.
- TheOtherHobbes 2y agoThe biggest danger of explosion/implosion is the change to/from summer time.
- dtgriscom 2y agoThe control force would be the product of the air density change and the pendulum bob volume. If he increased the pendulum bob volume with a light but fixed-size object (a foam-filled sphere?) he wouldn't need to adjust the density as much.