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vasi

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Posted: 02:30am 19 Feb 2008
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Hi guys,

What about this lamp?
We will ever see this on market?

I saw an old clock with chains (gravitational mechanism)... I don t know how to name it... maybe the principle is the same?

I think for a little LED lamp is possible to made something like a gravity clock...
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Gill

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Posted: 03:00am 19 Feb 2008
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Almost a great idea.

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To "turn on" the lamp, the user moves weights from the bottom to the top of the lamp. An hour-glass like mechanism is turned over and the weights are placed in the mass sled near the top of the lamp.
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You've got to be kidding? Even a school kid can see that it should be built exactly like an hour glass and turned upside down to restart and if too heavy, mounted on a stand that allows it to be rotated.

Good idea, half done.
was working fine... til the smoke got out.
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vasi

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Posted: 03:15am 19 Feb 2008
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This kind of clock. I thought on something that can be build reusing clock mechanism or something similar, using the guy's idea.



Master Clocks

I don't credit myself with that ideea, just liked and put it here.Edited by vasi 2008-02-20
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