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245 clock loses time 200

uid 27's pic
posted by  Art Benstein on  Mon Mar 6 11:30 CST 2006
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Hi Duck,

This is actually a less precise version of the Y2K problem. Instead of shortsighted programmers, here are VDO engineers thinking their products should only last 19 years in Sweden where the roads are tougher and the winters longer.

There is an easy fix, though, if you have a slobbering iron to remove and replace two capacitors on the clock circuit board. The electrolytic caps dry out and cause the clock to run slow, if at all, in the winter. You can get the parts at Radio Shack. Two 100 microfarad 25 volt capacitors with the leads sticking out one end (radial leads).

Oh, yes, I have some old shots:















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Art Benstein near Baltimore

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