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Might be fun to make an electric clock that uses gravity, go full circle.

• fla 11y ago
  Rotor systems like in some automatic watches produce very little energy. Even at 100% efficiency it wouldn't be able to sustain an electronic circuit. Edit: I was wrong. See below.
  • aidenn0 11y ago
    My automatic watch contains an electronic circuit, so I'm not sure what your point is.
    • fla 11y ago
      Interesting. What is the circuit for ? Are you sure it's not powered by a standard watch battery ?
      • aidenn0 11y ago
        Yes, it is a quartz movement with a capacitor that is charged by a mechanism similar to a mechanical auto-winding watch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_watch#Automatic_quartz_or_kinetic_movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_watch#Automatic_quar...
  • mattgrice 11y ago
    Seiko Kinetic watches are quartz watches that are powered by movement. That's 30 year old technology.
    • fla 11y ago
      I stand corrected
  • Vexs 11y ago
    Not only is that not what I was thinking of, which was more akin to a grandfather clock, but I don't believe that at all. Just using piezoelectric vibration sensors I was able to charge a cap to light up an LED- a rotor mechanism would generate much, much more power, and consider today's energy efficient ICs I see know reason why it wouldn't work.