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20 Nov 2024 [16:32:08]+0winding by John & Louise  
12 Nov 2024 [20:20:00]+0winding by Alex Watson  
10 Nov 2024 [23:35:05]+0visit by Rebecca Bradford, Ashley Bradford, Jilly Hurley, Michael Hurley, Taylor Johnson, Antonia Anstatt, Lachlan Hughes, Jeremy Schneider,  
09 Nov 2024 [23:37:46]+0ADJUST: -55ms/day to 45130 with Gavin Stark, Emily Winslow Stark, Jayne Smith, Jane Frazier, Brian Frazier hailing from Lafayette CA and San Carlos CA  
07 Nov 2024 [08:45:35]+0top-up wind by lego clock builders: Matthew Bradley, James Brown, Anya Petyaeva, Dexter Bell, Luke Chown, Gavin Bosland, Thomas Sheldon and Andrew Gee  
05 Nov 2024 [10:15:52]+0winding by Lucia Leader, Jo Hynes, Sophie Mawby-Groom and Andrea Todman  
29 Oct 2024 [21:10:19]+0Winding by Samantha, Alex, Neil Talbott, Alex V, Jeremy Gundle, Julia Roberts, Hasan Himaz and Alex Watson  
28 Oct 2024 [20:10:09]+0top-up wind due to clock advancing yesterday, 8 turns on T, StJ and going  
27 Oct 2024 [10:54:30]-3Advancing clock by 23 hours for end of summer time. Checklist: 1. Wind the Going, Trinity and St John's trains by 8 turns to compensate for the loss of one day of running (note, Quarters will be silenced so they don't operate) 2. At 9.59am be ready with a magnet to hold up the escapement-release lever as soon as the Trinity Strike begins. Now insert the Quarters silencing washer. Insert the Strike silencing spacer as soon as the St John's strike ends. 3. Watch and wait. It'll take about 30 minutes to get to 10.30am (listen out for the silent hours clicking 10). Remove the magnet and let the clock run normally. It's OK to overshoot slightly. 4. The pendulum may need a push if the escapement isn't ticking. Now fine tune the clock by stopping the fly (or advancing it) until the time is correct. 5. Remove the Strike silencing spacer (so that the clock will strike 11am). Wait until after the 11am strike before removing the Quarters silencing washer - this will ensure that the Quarters start again in sync at 11.15am. 6. This is optional, but you may wish to reset the value of last_drift so that the clocklogger is reporting the correct time. To do this, login to pi-clock1 and open a command window. cd clocklogger/data, sudo systemctl stop clocklogger.service , nano last_drift (change the value to the current drift, nearest 1 second), ^x to save and exit, sudo systemctl start clocklogger.services. 7. Other miscellaneous things to do a couple of weeks in advance: ask Chaplains to order coffee and croissants 10am in the ante-chapel; ask the Communications Manager to advertise the event in Trinfo and the Chaplains in the Chapel weekly missive  
23 Oct 2024 [18:00:00]+0ADJUST: +85ms/day to 45185  
22 Oct 2024 [09:12:33]+0winding by Elizabeth White and James Smith  
15 Oct 2024 [09:00:00]+0winding by Alexander Watson, Zachary Heggie, Jemima Gazzard, Andrew Farquharson, Ibby, Zara Bek  
08 Oct 2024 [10:59:41]+0ADJUST: +100ms/day to 45100  
08 Oct 2024 [10:55:23]+0winding by Alister Taylor - go Cats!  
02 Oct 2024 [09:00:07]+0ADJUST: +150ms/day to 45000  
01 Oct 2024 [14:55:03]+0ADJUST: -1000ms/day to 44850  
01 Oct 2024 [14:55:00]+0removed 200g from barocomp with Amit Agrawal  
01 Oct 2024 [10:13:18]+0winding by Andrea Todman  
27 Sep 2024 [15:07:30]+0visit by Glee Club Melbourne!!!  
24 Sep 2024 [18:11:00]+0winding by John  
17 Sep 2024 [18:18:44]+0winding by Freya, Lydia, Joshua, Ben with John  
10 Sep 2024 [17:18:09]+0winding by Liza, Louisa, and David  
03 Sep 2024 [12:03:57]+0winding by Rosie  
27 Aug 2024 [09:20:40]+0winding by James Smith  
20 Aug 2024 [09:23:41]+0winding by Andrea Todman  
13 Aug 2024 [18:01:27]+0winding by Joshua, Beka and John  
06 Aug 2024 [12:31:04]+0winding by Tom Hartley, Charles Dight and Douglas Spurlock  
31 Jul 2024 [14:50:44]+0winding by Rosie  
23 Jul 2024 [19:07:54]+0winding by Liza Hadley and Eric LeGresley  
01 Jul 2024 [08:52:56]+0winding by Nic Heydon, Janar Davletov and Andrea Todman  
01 Jul 2024 [08:52:16]+0ADJUST: -150ms/day to 45850 by Aaron Smith and Rosie Cates  
26 Jun 2024 [20:06:49]+0winding with Dagfinnur Sveinbjornsson  
24 Jun 2024 [09:50:25]+0ADJUST: +150ms/day to 46000  
21 Jun 2024 [14:07:42]+0top-up wind by Tom Hughes and Danielle Melling - who is showing Tom around, he's a long lost Trinity Engineer!  
18 Jun 2024 [23:30:05]+0winding by Hetty Lucas, Elena Gebhard and John Aldridge - after St John's fireworks  
16 Jun 2024 [15:25:05]+0visit and top-up wind by Marie Sweeney, Thomas Sweeney, Kevin Sweeney and Tim Atkinson - with his visitors from Ohio  
11 Jun 2024 [09:11:41]+0winding by Elizabeth White and James Smith  
05 Jun 2024 [18:10:36]+0winding by Sarah Gordon and Rosie Cates  
28 May 2024 [20:16:36]+0winding by Alexander Watson, John Perry, Blazej Puchala, Dido Coley, Zach Foster, Jack Celliers  
28 May 2024 [13:12:23]+0visitors from Wesley College Perth (WA) - Georgia Atterton, Narelle Barron, Ross Barron with Bill O'Hearn - here for the weather.  
21 May 2024 [18:58:34]+0winding by Liza  
14 May 2024 [13:19:00]+0winding by Auriol Rae  
07 May 2024 [18:20:00]+0winding by Alexander Watson, Seth Thompson, Coy Zhu, Elvira Munteanu, Ho Lam Yiu and Morgan Billings  
02 May 2024 [11:42:13]+0winding by Ilenia Casale , Stephen Risley,Julie Trim,Tim Beswick, Neal Trotter,Marianna Plusa, Aline Lafite Silva, Andrea Pizzi  
30 Apr 2024 [17:09:44]+0winding by Elena and Rosie  
23 Apr 2024 [18:41:32]+0winding by Liza and Eric  
16 Apr 2024 [11:15:20]+0Winding by Carissa Tolmie  
09 Apr 2024 [09:09:59]+0Winding by James Smith, Elizabeth White and Andrea Todman  
07 Apr 2024 [18:08:27]+0fixed quarters silencing time (it'e been 3 hours ahead for a couple of days) Louise with jpsa  
05 Apr 2024 [11:24:13]+0winding by Ilka Jorissen, Jo Bahnen, Yvette Allum, Ron Allum, Emily Bingley, Paula Hermenau, Mareike, Cornelia Schmidt, Hanna Kreutzer, Gerrit Koch, Erhard Eibl, Theresa Beyenburg-Weidenfeld, Jacques Creton,  
31 Mar 2024 [09:32:40]+0advancing the clock one hour for Summer Time, and winding by Florence Linton, Alexander Linton, Martin Mik, Peter Sabor, Diana Smith, Ned O'Hearn, Jo Feldman, Oliver Linton, Basia Lejonvarn, Yuka Nomura  
31 Mar 2024 [09:23:20]+0ADJUST: -150ms/day to 45850  
26 Mar 2024 [18:21:07]+0ADJUST: +200ms/day to 46000 further tweak  
26 Mar 2024 [13:28:33]+0Winding by Tom and Luke Hartley and Laura Rey Gonzalez  
26 Mar 2024 [09:21:07]+0ADJUST: +2000ms/day to 45800 after increasing barocomp mass by 400grams  
19 Mar 2024 [14:05:47]+0Maintenance and winding by Graham Newman (rewarded at lunch with Spotted Dick and Custard)  
14 Mar 2024 [12:38:19]+0winding by Carson Nicoll, Ursula Morris, Elizabeth White, Josie Zhou, James Smith, Maria Giovanna De Simone,Elena Gebhard, Hayley Markou,Laura Carlile,Poppy Mac-Fall,Adam Green, Andy Sederman and Jon Witherley,  
05 Mar 2024 [18:43:19]+0top-up wind  
04 Mar 2024 [19:29:28]+0winding by Annabel Gold and Rosie Cates  
26 Feb 2024 [12:22:37]+0Winding by Lena Payne, Stephen Rushmer, Havovi Anklesaria, Greta Marshall, Carol Barnett, Chris Lowe, Joanna Cooney, Kara Fong, Steven Archer, Lilia Zaretskaia, Anne McLaughlin, Napoleon Katsos, Diana Smith,  
20 Feb 2024 [13:02:36]+0winding by Tom Hartley  
13 Feb 2024 [19:22:01]+0winding by Louise & John  
06 Feb 2024 [12:13:58]+0winding by Andrew and Rosie  
04 Feb 2024 [22:57:06]+0messing about with weights and how the speed of the clock varies. With Ryan Alweiss  
31 Jan 2024 [20:03:48]+0ADJUST: +900ms/day to 43800  
31 Jan 2024 [08:13:35]+0a couple of the barocomp weights had fallen off yesterday. I've superglued them back on! It looks like vibration or wind at 6pm strike dislodged them.  
30 Jan 2024 [19:36:40]+0winding by Liza Hadley, james mcallister, Felix Daines  
28 Jan 2024 [16:52:55]+0ADJUST: +1900ms/day to 42900  
25 Jan 2024 [17:01:35]+0ADJUST: -2500ms/day to 41000  
24 Jan 2024 [18:06:31]+0something happened today. Tilt related? Changed position of regulation weights with Clifford Hicks from Birmingham - who was today talking about superconductivity at 1.5K!  
24 Jan 2024 [12:19:44]+0winding by Rosie Cates  
22 Jan 2024 [19:29:55]+0ADJUST: -200ms/day to 43500  
22 Jan 2024 [19:29:50]+0removed 100g from the tempcomp and added 400g to the barocomp. Reset the going adjust weights.  
16 Jan 2024 [19:22:12]+0winding by Liza Hadley and james McAllister  
09 Jan 2024 [13:03:03]+0winding by Auriol Rae  
02 Jan 2024 [11:08:31]+0Winding by Andrea Todman  
26 Dec 2023 [16:30:18]+0winding by John and Louise  
22 Dec 2023 [11:57:57]+0Ooops, out by one hour on silencing, now fixed. And top-up wind again. (jpsa)  
21 Dec 2023 [11:20:00]+0Re-engage quarters silencing arm and adjust wheel position. Also top-up wind to give a bit of flexibility over Christmas. (jpsa)  
19 Dec 2023 [11:01:33]+0winding by Carissa Tolmie  
12 Dec 2023 [13:19:11]+0winding by Luke Hartley MEng  
05 Dec 2023 [21:42:16]+0winding by Liza Hadley & Eric LeGresley  
28 Nov 2023 [20:41:00]+0winding by Gauri, Bei and Rosie  
21 Nov 2023 [19:16:02]+0winding by Louise Place and John Aldridge  
14 Nov 2023 [17:41:57]+0winding by Alex Coleman and Auriol Rae  
07 Nov 2023 [19:05:13]+0winding by Liza Hadley and Eric LeGresley  
31 Oct 2023 [20:01:41]+0winding by Annabel Gold, Elle Wyatt, Rory Dyer and Rosie Cates  
29 Oct 2023 [10:03:53]+0clock change for winter time with an assembled crowd in Great Court  
24 Oct 2023 [16:09:22]+0winding by Carissa Tolmie  
18 Oct 2023 [21:54:24]+0top-up wind by Catherine Drysdale and Matt Colbrook  
17 Oct 2023 [09:47:52]+0winding by Bob Yarrow and Andrea Todman  
10 Oct 2023 [16:50:48]+0winding by Liza Hadley, James McAllister  
03 Oct 2023 [19:40:31]+0winding by Rachel Angus, Alice Pernthaller and Rosie  
26 Sep 2023 [13:09:12]+0winding by Auriol Rae  
25 Sep 2023 [11:02:59]+0visite par Michele Pomies Bernard Pomies - de L'Aveyron  
23 Sep 2023 [18:16:39]+0visit by Liza Hadley, Paul Hadley, Dilys Hadley.  
19 Sep 2023 [11:38:33]+0winding by Tom Hartley  
15 Sep 2023 [22:11:03]+0Top-up wind for University of Illinois Chicago with John Finan and ME-320 Mechanisms and Dynamics of Machinery live stream Good fun!  
14 Sep 2023 [21:03:53]+0visit by Hagai Shaham, Arnon Erez and Raphael Wallfisch - SEW Trio on their way to Ripon for a concert  
12 Sep 2023 [17:52:38]+0winding by Liza Hadley and Mr. S. Holmes, St John's College  
05 Sep 2023 [18:46:46]+0winding by Saskia Frisby, Fabien Troivaux and Rosie Cates  
29 Aug 2023 [10:39:50]+0winding by jpsa  
25 Aug 2023 [15:47:21]+0visit by Naomi Vince and Milly Yelf in anticipation of events ...  
22 Aug 2023 [10:24:55]+0Winding by Carissa Tolmie and Amelia Tolmie  
15 Aug 2023 [10:15:52]+0Winding by Andrea Todman  
11 Aug 2023 [06:31:50]+0there was a power cut today - needed to shift the drift plot  
08 Aug 2023 [11:10:00]+0winding by Liza Hadley  
01 Aug 2023 [22:21:54]+0winding by Rosie  
25 Jul 2023 [13:03:09]+0winding by Auriol Rae  
23 Jul 2023 [21:02:07]+0visit and top-up wind by Dan Harrison from Southern Cross University - on the day we retained The Ashes ...  
18 Jul 2023 [09:29:06]+0winding by Andrea Todman  
16 Jul 2023 [14:10:46]+0visit by Omar Zein {Porter at Clare College) , William Wood (Clare Research Associate and forger) and Connor Cheverall (PhD student at Clare)  
11 Jul 2023 [23:04:24]+0Melbourne - Trinity College (Pip McQuinn, Jem Herbert, Ellie Ashwell, Matt Cook, Mia Robinson, Anish Nair, Alasdair Stretch, Luke Hopkins & Peter Campbell) + a well hydrated performance of the Byrd 3 part mass  
11 Jul 2023 [22:09:04]+0visit by Trinity College Melbourne !!! Thomas Heywood said "say hello to Merlyn Quaife" ...  
11 Jul 2023 [12:20:37]+0winding by Carissa Tolmie  
04 Jul 2023 [12:50:32]+0winding by Tom Hartley of the red shoes  
27 Jun 2023 [17:38:00]+0winding by Matthew Weiler, Jennifer DeSouza, Aleksander Weiler and Alessa Weiler before graduation  
20 Jun 2023 [22:48:14]+0winding by Nell Jerram, Yang Xia, Bill O'Hearn with John Aldridge  
14 Jun 2023 [16:08:54]+0winding by Nicholas Richardson-Waldin, Sophie Williams, Selim Olgu Pilav, Sanadi Ilandaridewa and Philippa Samella after a boozy garden party :)  
12 Jun 2023 [09:41:23]+0eratic running over recent weeks fixed by shifting the perspex covers at the top of the pendulum case. At large tilt the pendulum was touching the perspex. Well spotted, John Aldridge!  
11 Jun 2023 [11:28:03]+0 visit to the clock by Timothy Brennan KC and Emma Davies after the wonderful Singing from the Towers  
06 Jun 2023 [18:34:07]+0winding by Liza Hadley and Harvey Klyne  
30 May 2023 [17:54:57]+0winding by Rosie  
25 May 2023 [11:14:27]+0top-up wind by Clementine Hurley, Carter Cooper, Preston Cooper, Michael Hurley, Jilly Hurley, Beckwith Cooper and Derick Cooper - the Coopers visiting from Nashville  
23 May 2023 [14:16:10]+0Winding by Liza Hadley and Andrea Todman  
20 May 2023 [18:07:13]+0ADJUST: +200ms/day to 39050  
20 May 2023 [17:50:33]+0Visit by The Pilgrims - hosted by Prof Rebecca Fitzgerald  
16 May 2023 [07:49:33]+0winding by Alessa Weiler  
09 May 2023 [21:57:12]+0winding by Rosie  
02 May 2023 [16:14:58]+0winding by Liza Hadley and Alessa Weiler  
25 Apr 2023 [18:10:48]+0winding by Hannah McKay, Richard Moulange and Rosie Cates  
18 Apr 2023 [17:01:39]+0winding by Auriol Rae  
13 Apr 2023 [13:42:22]+0weather data (pressure, temperature and humidity) has been absent for a while. No problems with the weather station, and connections seem ok. Did "sudo reboot" which worked, but then the clocklogger service wouldn't fire up. Tried reboot a few times, no joy. Then did sudo poweroff and pulled the plug. Hard restart. Seems all to be working now. Not sure what had happened. Maybe the SD card is on the way out?  
11 Apr 2023 [14:20:00]+0winding by Peter, Barbara and Louise with jpsa  
06 Apr 2023 [13:22:36]+0winding by Aidan Westfall, Jack Enns, Alison Westfall, Ben McConkey and Hilary Costello.  
04 Apr 2023 [12:18:14]+0winding by Tom Hartley  
28 Mar 2023 [09:06:34]+0winding by Romane Thomas and Andrea Todman  
26 Mar 2023 [00:20:00]+0change to summe1728385218r time with some members of Fairhaven Singers after a performance of Bach St Matthew Passion  
21 Mar 2023 [11:28:28]+0winding by Carissa Tolmie  
15 Mar 2023 [11:26:42]+0This was a good test for the eight-day clock. Last week wound on Tuesday at 9.15am, this week on Wednesday at 11.15am. The going has only 10mm fall to go, and using Garth's measurements in April the going weight drops on average 45mm per hour (1.09 metres per day). Confirmation that we can go eight days, 2h:15m between winds. The Trinity Strike has 38mm clear. Based on Garth's measurements last April the Trinity weight falls on average 6.84mm/dong (based on 156 dongs per day) but because of the change in drum diameter on the lower layer I measured 6.55mm/dong just now. So the 38mm would only have allowed 5 more dongs. All perfect, the clock would have stopped just before the Trinity strike ran out enabling an easy restart without resetting the bells. StJohn's and Quarters have plenty to go so they don't matter in this calculation.  
15 Mar 2023 [11:11:29]+0winding by Sophie Gibson - a reward for being lucky last at Exeat!  
07 Mar 2023 [15:00:00]+0visit from Norton Knatchbull School - Felix, Freddie, Curt, Brad, Dylan, Jack B, Jack W, Lola, Nimesha, Oli, Matt, Aaron, Extreme, Lizzy, Luke (with jpsa)  
07 Mar 2023 [09:14:40]+0winding by Alessa Weiler  
28 Feb 2023 [14:33:17]+0winding by Weida Liao and Rosie Cates  
21 Feb 2023 [21:56:46]+0winding by Rosie  
18 Feb 2023 [17:24:43]+0it looks like pi-clock10 usb stick is broken. Followed instructions here to delete/recreate partition and remount [link]  
18 Feb 2023 [16:32:56]+0pi-clock5 needed a hard reboot (power off and removing the power cable) to get bubble working again. Sunshine restarted with a soft reboot (sudo reboot)  
18 Feb 2023 [16:32:55]+0realigned the twist laser  
18 Feb 2023 [16:32:54]+0192.168.240. pi-clock1 (21) pibackup-clock (25) pi-clock3 (26) pi-clock5 (22) pi-clock6 (23) pi-clock10 (24)  
18 Feb 2023 [16:32:53]+0syntax for level adjustment python3 bipolar.py --step 28BYJ --time 0.01 --number 100 --pins 2 (--pins = 1 for pendulum), --number=200 is 180 degrees, ie full cycle since the motor shaft has two flats)  
17 Feb 2023 [07:28:04]+0powering down the Raspberry Pis for an hour for work on the mains distribution board.  
14 Feb 2023 [19:14:08]+0winding  
07 Feb 2023 [10:01:11]+0winding by Sarah Nolan, John Cooke, Carolyn Cates and Rosie Cates  
06 Feb 2023 [01:16:43]+0It looks like the pendulum was disturbed by the awful earthquake in Turkey this morning [link] . P wave takes about 7 minutes to get here. The first big quake occurred at 01:17 GMT  
04 Feb 2023 [12:33:20]+0ADJUST: -350ms/day to 38850 Note exceptionally high barometric pressure so this adjustment looks a bit big. I hope it will autocorrect over the next few days as the weather gets back to normal  
01 Feb 2023 [14:43:20]+0powered back up at 2.30pm today. It looks like data isn't being uploaded yet - the RPis all have new IP addresses so maybe some setup to be done  
31 Jan 2023 [11:20:00]+0winding by Alessa Weiler and friend  
31 Jan 2023 [08:23:39]+0Essential maintenance today on mains distribution board. I'm shutting down all the Raspberry Pis. The clock will carry on running just fine!  
29 Jan 2023 [17:36:32]+0There is a slight annoyance that the mass of the heavier weights is not known to the same absolute tolerance as the lighter ones. For example replacing 9700 ms/day with a single 10000 ms/day weight is not going to give +300ms/day because the 10000 ms/day weight might actually weigh 10100 ms/day. Maybe they all need to be calibrated. I'll do this one day.  
29 Jan 2023 [17:36:31]+0 At the same time I've rep[aced the three 100ms/day weights with a single 300ms/day comosite weight so that more weight can be added at the north side of the pendulum to reduce twist. See earlier comment from a coup,e of weeeks ago.  
29 Jan 2023 [17:36:30]+0ADJUST: +300ms/day to 39200  
25 Jan 2023 [00:15:09]+0winding by Liza Hadley, Tess Williams, Rob Mastrodomenico, Sophie Davis, William Bowers, Sophie Buckland and Thom Wray. A random collation of mathematical communicators and clock winders x. btw, Alessa, you can buy the next round!  
22 Jan 2023 [20:40:00]+0I've turned off the radiator that is under the south window (nearly under the pendulum) so hopefully the temperature of the air in the pendulum chamber will be cooler and more uniform. We'll see. The objective is to make the temperature compensation work better.  
19 Jan 2023 [17:40:00]+0Today finnally twigged that the variation in air temperatures when the doot to C5 Great Court is opened and closed is nothing to do with the opening and closing of the door. It's the switching on and off of the lights! I've replaced the halogen light nearest the pendulum with an LED hob light and the issue has gone away. I should also try turning off the radiator that is under the south window (nearly under the pendulum) so hopefully the temperature of the air in the pendulum chamber will be cooler and more uniform.  
17 Jan 2023 [11:55:56]+0winding by Carolyn Cates and Rosie Cates  
16 Jan 2023 [16:40:25]+0realigned laser to lower spot on the screen for twist measurement. Not perfect - maybe we need to shift the prism upwards a bit - do that when next we stop the clock.  
15 Jan 2023 [12:30:00]+0fixed twist measurement by correcting the area-of-interest in the code (jpsa)  
13 Jan 2023 [18:30:19]+0puzzled why twist is negative when back in 2021 it was positive [link] So I did the same experiment as back then moving 30000ms//day worth of weights from the north side to the south side (ie towards Great Court) and twist went from -3mrad to -5mrad. I put the weights back again, but as far north as I could. Twist has settled to be around -3.7mrad, slightly better than the -3.9mrad that it was earlier today [link] . I'm pondering whether to wind up the regulation nut so as to dispose of all the brass weights on the regulation platform (nb the regulation nut does 42s/day per turn, see below) But maybe there is benefit in having plenty of regulation mass up high to be able to control twist. How about I lower the main weight and add even more mass at the North side and try to get twist to zero?  
13 Jan 2023 [10:43:30]+0I think the pendulum was rubbling on the hardboard covers at the top of the perspex box. Shifted these - hopefully will give better amplitude control.  
12 Jan 2023 [15:14:23]+0ADJUST: -300ms/day to 38900  
12 Jan 2023 [14:26:48]+0refit pibackup-clock with an "official" PSU, fingers crossed this has fixed the problems  
10 Jan 2023 [13:16:50]+0winding by Carissa Tolmie  
06 Jan 2023 [14:06:38]+0visit by Katie Thompson, Andreas Metzler, Pat Batcheler, Peter Batcheler and Rupert Gatti  
03 Jan 2023 [11:44:31]+0Winding by Andrea Todman and Laura Carlile  
27 Dec 2022 [12:43:37]+0after all we wound the lot.  
27 Dec 2022 [12:19:02]+0... and a top-up wind of the Quarters  
27 Dec 2022 [11:59:12]+0ADJUST: +300ms/day to 39200 with wendell neufeld, Miles Neufeld, Cayley Neufeld, Sharon Neufeld, Jerome Neufeld, Alma Scovil, Peter Scovil - hailing from Waterford Ontario - where it is cold ...  
20 Dec 2022 [13:48:54]+0winding by Carissa and the Fusseys team - Max, Sonny, Mark and Matthew  
16 Dec 2022 [16:59:00]+0ADJUST: +400ms/day to 38900 (jpsa)  
13 Dec 2022 [18:01:21]+0winding by Tom Hartley  
08 Dec 2022 [18:24:01]+0ADJUST: -1800 ms/day to 38500 to realign after flipping the compensator  
08 Dec 2022 [18:20:54]+0Looks like fine tuning temp compensation isn't right. flipped the fine tuning temperature compensator (a la Joel) upside down and added 96 grams + 23g knurled nut. Let's see what happens.  
06 Dec 2022 [18:55:28]+0winding by JPSA  
29 Nov 2022 [19:33:12]+0winding by Alessa Weiler  
23 Nov 2022 [08:57:59]+0visit by Anna Katavouta - Liverpool and NOC visiting Centre for Climate Repair  
22 Nov 2022 [08:45:09]+0winding by Zihan Yuan, Gemma Stapleton, Ellen Morley, Nicola Gong, Noor Shariff Mitchell and Andrew Gee - Lego clock builders!  
21 Nov 2022 [22:14:02]+0top-up winding by Gavin Boyle, Geert Degrande and Didier Queloz after Combination  
20 Nov 2022 [21:29:19]+0visit by Julian Haggett and Philip Bonn - after Julian's Organ Recital in Chapel tonight  
15 Nov 2022 [11:10:36]+0winding by Carissa Tolmie  
08 Nov 2022 [08:41:44]+0ADJUST: -200ms/day to 40300  
08 Nov 2022 [07:53:20]+0winding by Deshraam Ganeshamoorthy, Rob Seabourne, Ben Sutcliffe, Ruari Theakston, Patrick Riggall with Andrew Gee as observer - lego clock building team!  
30 Oct 2022 [11:05:45]+0Winding by Alessa Weiler and Rosie Cates  
30 Oct 2022 [11:04:07]+0advanced the clock by 23 hours and top-up wind by Reuben Oosthuizen, Nathan Oosthuizen and Solomiya Boyar  
25 Oct 2022 [13:23:23]+0Winding by Auriol Rae (actual winding at 14:15)  
22 Oct 2022 [10:52:53]+0A few winds by Moysis Tsamsakizoglou and Hilary Costello  
18 Oct 2022 [10:10:43]+0Winding by Lilia Zaretskaia, Jane Carter and Andrea Todman  
11 Oct 2022 [07:13:59]+0Winding by Rosie Cates and Alessa Weiler  
04 Oct 2022 [10:38:14]+0Winding by Annalisa Albuquerque and Alessa Weiler  
03 Oct 2022 [21:20:00]+0Ah! Now better - I was out by two hours.  
03 Oct 2022 [18:33:20]+0better now  
03 Oct 2022 [15:46:40]+0hmmm, I failed to secure a cable which fell into the escapement and stopped the clock.  
27 Sep 2022 [09:36:56]+0winding by Hayley Markou and Andrea Todman  
20 Sep 2022 [10:08:05]+0winding by Carissa Tolmie  
16 Sep 2022 [11:30:00]+0reinstated analysis of spirit level on wall in clock chamber after repositioning (jpsa)  
14 Sep 2022 [18:40:00]+0adjusted "Tower" tilt image analysis parameters to reflect repositioned camera & spirit level (jpsa)  
14 Sep 2022 [11:23:32]+0winding with John Aldridge  
06 Sep 2022 [14:52:07]+0winding by Andrea Todman  
30 Aug 2022 [09:39:47]+0winding by Carissa and Garth Tolmie  
26 Aug 2022 [11:27:14]+0rebooted pi-clock5 because the sunshine sensor wasn't working - also fiddled the connectors. Seems to be OK now. And Sarah Layton had a go winding the quarters - heavy eh?!  
24 Aug 2022 [09:55:00]+0adjust twist sensor spot finding parameters because spot has increased slightly in size (16 -> 20 pixels) for unknown reasons. The readings seem to be much cleaner now. (jpsa)  
22 Aug 2022 [13:46:31]+0first of the quarters not sounding. Put a 5cm bend into the pull wire - now fine. I guess due to the heat? Maybe will have to undo later in the year  
22 Aug 2022 [13:03:46]+0winding by Tom Hartley  
19 Aug 2022 [13:16:40]+0restart RPi pibackup-clock.trin.cam.ac.uk because it stopped logging tilt, twist and cavity temps. Seems to be ok now  
15 Aug 2022 [08:48:30]+0Winding by Alessa Weiler  
09 Aug 2022 [09:50:00]+0Winding by Andrew Manning and Andrea Todman  
02 Aug 2022 [13:49:11]+0ADJUST: +300ms/day to 40500  
02 Aug 2022 [13:34:27]+0Winding by Carissa and Garth Tolmie  
28 Jul 2022 [05:14:21]+0ADJUST: +3200ms/day to 40200 the morning after glass door fitted.  
27 Jul 2022 [16:40:00]+0replacing pendulum door in C5 Great Court with a glass front. Well sealed with tape. This introduces is An extra 20mm of clearance between glass and pendulum bob. I bumped the pendulum during this process.  
26 Jul 2022 [15:30:40]+0Winding by Nandini Shiralkar and Alessa Weiler  
23 Jul 2022 [11:20:15]+0ADJUST: -250ms/day to 37000  
23 Jul 2022 [10:58:12]+0visit by Isobel Kristensson, Lars Johan Kristensson and Per Ola Kristensson  
19 Jul 2022 [12:54:49]+0Winding by Auriol Rae  
16 Jul 2022 [16:32:18]+0Visit by Emily Costello, Brian Corrigan, Maria Enns and Hilary Costello  
12 Jul 2022 [18:12:00]+0Winding by John & Louise  
05 Jul 2022 [11:05:49]+0Winding by Tom Hartley  
03 Jul 2022 [17:00:00]+0Top-up wind with Mary Larcom, Joseph Larcom, Chiara Berneri, Patrick Larcom, Raffaele Larcom, Shaun Larcom  
01 Jul 2022 [14:56:32]+0Top-up wind by Tim Miller, Helen Miller and Ben Miller on his graduation from Enamel College.  
28 Jun 2022 [16:34:49]+0Winding by Ben Miller and Srivatsa Garg  
20 Jun 2022 [20:03:48]+0Winding by Dawn Stonebridge, Csilla Zsok, Sam Maddrell and Andrea Todman  
20 Jun 2022 [20:01:20]+0May Ball cacophony by Jordan Lawrence, Garance Biosse-Duplan, Patrick Donnelly, Chloe Caron, Areeg Emarah  
19 Jun 2022 [20:02:44]+0visit by Hilke Schlichting who was VFC at Trinity, leaving tomorrow :(  
14 Jun 2022 [09:06:57]+0winding by Andrew Manning, Andrea Todman, Lilia Zaretskaia and Jane Carter  
07 Jun 2022 [14:13:00]+0winding by Auriol Rae  
02 Jun 2022 [16:39:37]+0ADJUST: +200ms/day to 37250 by Sanadi Ilandaridewa with help from Andrew Farquharson, Edward Burlac, Rohan Daggar and Wing Woo  
31 May 2022 [14:48:42]+0winding by Alessa Weiler and Annalisa Albuquerque  
28 May 2022 [16:00:00]+0ADJUST: +100ms/day to 37050 fine tuning  
28 May 2022 [13:59:20]+0ADJUST: +12600ms/day to 36950  
28 May 2022 [13:58:20]+0removed 543 grams from the temperature compensator (ex Joel Williams' project). Note that the only mass remaining is the knurled nut  
24 May 2022 [14:45:55]+0winding by Alessa Weiler  
18 May 2022 [11:38:55]+0winding by Hannah Dunn, Ellie Standen and Katie Parker. Also verified that the clock is 8 days 2 hours and 15 minutes, and that the strike runs out after the going even after 12 noon.  
10 May 2022 [09:26:40]+0recentred the clock bubble level which seems to have been moved during some maintenance work  
10 May 2022 [09:15:00]+0top-up wind at 10.15am with a view to checking that next Wednesday at 12.15pm the clock stops with distance still to go on the Trinity strike  
07 May 2022 [11:40:45]+0Distance to bottom from underneath the weights, StJ= 8.87m, Going=8.55m, Quarters=8.27m, Trinity=8.71m measured with Garth's laser.  
07 May 2022 [11:35:03]+0winding with Carissa Tolmie and Garth Tolmie, marking up the line for 8 days and 2 hours running.  
29 Apr 2022 [11:08:26]+0winding with Garth Tolmie and we measured out the line ready for marking next week.  
26 Apr 2022 [14:14:38]+0seven days winding is: going = 56 turns, strikes = 54.6 turns each, quarters = 49.58 turns.  
26 Apr 2022 [14:10:19]+0now that we have an eight day clock it's worth noting for winders that 8 days is 64 turns of the going drum (8 turns per day). 62.4 turns on the two strike drums (7.8 turns per day) and 56 2/3 turns on the quarters drum (7 1/12 turns per day - assuming 7 hours silence per day). The quarters would be 10 turns per day if the silencing were switched off.  
26 Apr 2022 [13:41:40]+0realigning the laser for the twist sensor - it was pointing too high. Quite possibly we knocked it when installing the new line - but it had been getting fuzzy for a while  
21 Apr 2022 [10:00:00]+0with Graham Newman replacement of the line for the going and the Trinity and St John's strike. The main purpose was to make the weights hang safely, so that all weights sit on a solid surface at the bottom of their travel with two or three turns of line still left on the drum.. As a bonus we now have a full 8 day clock.  
19 Apr 2022 [14:47:57]+0winding by Carissa Tolmie, Garth Tolmie and Kathryn Tolmie  
18 Apr 2022 [11:48:56]+0Top-up wind by Martha Blakesley, Matilda Wellington, Eddie Blakesley, Rebecca Harding, Skye Wellington, Richard Blakesley with Emilia Harding  
15 Apr 2022 [14:09:46]+0ADJUST: +250ms/day to 24350  
12 Apr 2022 [11:48:08]+0winding by Hannah Todman, Harry Todman, Andrea Todman, Penny Todman and Vic Todman  
05 Apr 2022 [14:44:27]+0winding by Tom Hartley (who accidentally triggered 4pm oops - had to go all 23 round the clock)  
29 Mar 2022 [14:15:42]+0winding by jpsa with Louise Place  
26 Mar 2022 [22:01:43]+0clock forward 1 hour for BST by jpsa  
22 Mar 2022 [14:36:38]+0winding by Ana Anderson and Fiona Ashworth with Hilary Costello  
14 Mar 2022 [22:26:42]+0Late night winding with Jesse Liu, Ana Howie, Carola Purser, Bill Balunas, Holly Pacey, Richard Calis, Emmanuel Dormy  
09 Mar 2022 [10:46:54]+0winding with Elisavet Baltas  
01 Mar 2022 [15:15:04]+0winding with Jon Squires - making amends! All fixed now, pendulum case recentred and St John's strike re-synchronized. Clock stopped for 3 seconds and last_drift reset  
01 Mar 2022 [08:35:04]+0when fitting a new window and getting ready for blackout blinds Jon managed to disturb the Wyler electronic level knocking it down onto the pendulum case. The pendulum was then rubbing on the side of the case reducing the pendulum amplitude causing it to race ahead. Then in trying to reposition the level he accidentally triggered the St John's strike. Not a good morning!  
22 Feb 2022 [12:47:34]+0winding by Auriol Rae  
15 Feb 2022 [10:55:45]+0winding by Carissa Tolmie  
11 Feb 2022 [14:04:08]+0distinguished visitors His Highness Mir Suleman, Khan Ahmedzai (Balouchistan), Hidetoshi Azuma (Tokyo Japan), Thomas Brady (Prides Crossing MA) and Philip Bonn matric '97 (Westminster)  
08 Feb 2022 [10:08:40]+0winding by Andrea Todman, Lexy Phillips and Carissa Tolmie  
05 Feb 2022 [15:19:05]+0top-up wind by George Cook and Sophie Cook - well stoked up with fudge  
01 Feb 2022 [13:53:37]+0winding by Alessa Weiler  
01 Feb 2022 [10:53:00]+0jiggle dodgy cavity temperature probe connector (jpsa)  
01 Feb 2022 [10:34:00]+0re-blutac sunshine sensor to window -- it had fallen off (jpsa)  
26 Jan 2022 [15:06:59]+0 top up wind by the recovering physicists: Val Gibson. Steve Edwards, Nigel Wilkes, Richard Smith, Andy Cooper - graduated 1979  
26 Jan 2022 [11:49:02]+0wound and restarted, the Trinity strike had stopped during striking 9 and jammed up - which stopped the going at about 9.50am. All sorted now!  
26 Jan 2022 [11:47:49]-0ADJUST: -150ms/day to 24100  
26 Jan 2022 [11:14:36]+0unfortunately the clock stopped - forgot to wind ... ooops, Alessa!  
18 Jan 2022 [11:14:36]+0winding by Auriol Rae and Ben Miller  
16 Jan 2022 [02:10:00]+0arrival of Tonga pulse another 7 hours later - long distance 23,500km (gives speed of sound 1070km/h = 297 m/s)  
15 Jan 2022 [19:10:10]+0- short distance 16,500km (gives speed of sound 1100km/h = 305m/s)  
15 Jan 2022 [19:10:00]+0arrival of Tonga air pressure pulse 15 hours later [link]  
15 Jan 2022 [04:10:00]+0Tonga volcano eruption at 0410GMT Sat 15 Jan 2022  
11 Jan 2022 [11:03:53]+0winding by Andrea Todman and Carissa Tolmie  
04 Jan 2022 [12:43:22]+0ADJUST: -150ms/day to 24250  
04 Jan 2022 [12:10:20]+0winding with Carissa Tolmie  
28 Dec 2021 [17:51:36]+0winding with Tom Hartley  
21 Dec 2021 [10:24:46]+0ADJUST: +200ms/day to 24400  
21 Dec 2021 [10:08:33]+0winding with Andrea Todman - just in time, Trinity Strike would have run out during eleven.  
13 Dec 2021 [17:20:17]+0winding with Auriol Rae  
06 Dec 2021 [19:06:24]+0winding with Aarushi Shah, Lisa-Maria Tanase, Ruri Proto, Alex Freeman, Mehdi Hajjam, Claudia Schneider, David Spiegelhalter, John R. Kerr, Maria Climent Palmer, Mike Pearson - for the Winton Centre Christmas Drunks.  
29 Nov 2021 [16:26:45]+0winding by Francois Belleville, Etienne Plamondon, James Crone, Kevin Bean and Hilary Costello  
24 Nov 2021 [11:56:40]+0found a loose cable connection on the cavity temps connection near pibackup_clock - tightened it but it's still pretty loose. Also noticed that the roof access door at the top of the wooden ladder was open and swinging free. I suspect this has created draughts and uncontrolled temperatures around the clock. The door is now closed. Let's see what happens.  
22 Nov 2021 [13:09:35]+0winding with Katy Cartlidge and Shaun Fitzgerald. It looks like we bumped something because the cavity temps stopped working.  
15 Nov 2021 [17:16:57]+0winding by Ben Miller  
08 Nov 2021 [16:35:37]+0winding by Jonathan Edwards and Kazuo Newcombe  
31 Oct 2021 [11:37:06]+0winding with Samuel Liew  
31 Oct 2021 [11:33:20]+0clock change for end of summer time - advanced the clock by 23 hours, which takes about 29 minutes (better than stopping the clock and waiting for an hour.  
28 Oct 2021 [07:40:15]+0winding with Sylvia Zhu TH, Sam Mossop CC, Chi Ma CC, Tasin Sayed CC and Andrew Gee Q - the lego clock team!  
25 Oct 2021 [16:27:25]+0swapped the 140g of weight to the end of the quarters release lever for 100g  
25 Oct 2021 [16:17:24]+0accidentally stopped the clock for 72 seconds while installing new spirit level. Corrected. The new level for measuring frame tilt has a sensitivity of o,1mrad/div. The Pendulum level has a sensitivity of 0.2mrad/div. The tower tilt level at ground level is 0.01mrad/div  
23 Oct 2021 [11:20:00]+0GCR=46.5 upper layer so it appears that the bells run 3.2 seconds faster on the upper layer - this seems like a lot.  
23 Oct 2021 [10:06:40]+0winding before Great Court Run  
23 Oct 2021 [10:00:00]+0estimate of GCR time (based on timing 11am) is 49.7 seconds lower layer  
18 Oct 2021 [15:17:12]+0ADJUST: -300ms/day to 24200  
18 Oct 2021 [15:09:20]+0top-up wind by Ben Miller  
11 Oct 2021 [16:49:10]+0ADJUST: -1600ms/day to 24500 ... needed a bit more for the prism shift  
11 Oct 2021 [16:47:26]+0repositioned the twist prism - the laser was just about out of range. Had to lower the prism and realign the beam. Maybe need to remove some weight to compensate for this.  
11 Oct 2021 [16:46:42]+0ADJUST: -11000ms/day to 26100  
11 Oct 2021 [16:45:48]+0added 543 grams to the temperature compensator - for Joel Williams' project. With Ben Miller - it's his project now!  
11 Oct 2021 [16:21:26]+0top-up wind by Ben Miller  
09 Oct 2021 [23:14:02]+0winding with Reyhan Silingar, Ina Jantgen, Matthew Yoko, Yiyang Guo, Liri Tourgeman, Juan Carlos Rueda Silva, Anna Mullin, Alexandru Liciu, Paul Norris, Medhavi Kakkar, Jacob Verrey  
04 Oct 2021 [11:18:28]+0winding with Julia Southern-Wilkins  
27 Sep 2021 [18:50:50]+0ADJUST: -150ms/day to 37100  
27 Sep 2021 [17:34:35]+0Cambridge Alumni Clock Tour, live webinar. And winding with Olivia Butterworth  
20 Sep 2021 [11:22:15]+0winding with Grantarex - remarkably energetic! Angus Anderson,Ian Chamberlain, David Cogger, Trevor Godsell, John Howard, Ted Sage, Mike Smart, Bob Tydeman, Peter White and Chris Wingfield (Chair)  
18 Sep 2021 [11:04:32]+0top-up wind by Hugo Scott Whittle, Maria Botcharova, Benjamin Yates and Tom Heritage - all ex Camb (Engineers, Maths ASNC - T, CC, JE, M))  
14 Sep 2021 [08:32:20]+0winding with Dominika Mak and Jonathan Lee - music students! Just in time - the clock would have stopped half an hour later ...  
06 Sep 2021 [13:45:20]+0winding by John Aldridge  
30 Aug 2021 [10:23:20]+0winding by Ivor Day and Hilary Costello  
23 Aug 2021 [13:18:20]+0ADJUST: +500ms/day to 37250  
23 Aug 2021 [13:16:40]+0winding by Alessa Weiler and John Aldridge  
16 Aug 2021 [14:09:00]+0winding by John Aldridge. The staircase entry card has been renewed, and now works again.  
10 Aug 2021 [12:05:00]+0winding by James Strachan  
03 Aug 2021 [13:31:16]+0winding by Jessica Fintzen - just in time! The clock would have stopped two hours later. At 2.30pm there was half a turn left on the Trinity strike. At 20 dongs per turn that would have been enough to strike 3pm and 4pm so it would have given up during the strike of 5pm. Last week's winding was at 8.30pm, so we fall short from a full 8 days by about 8+7+6+5=26 dongs. Which means that next week winding will need to be before 11am Wednesday morning (because 2+1+12+11=26)  
31 Jul 2021 [11:31:44]+0silenced clock for choir by Jessica Fintzen and unsilenced by Paul Nicholson at 6.31pm GMT. Silencing instructions are [link]  
26 Jul 2021 [19:36:14]+0winding by Jessica Fintzen  
24 Jul 2021 [14:46:40]+0added 140g of weight to the end of the quarters release lever - hoping to prevent it bouncing on the warning and so to prevent jamming  
24 Jul 2021 [14:13:20]+0ADJUST: -250ms/day to 36750  
24 Jul 2021 [13:40:00]+0tied off the Trinity strike - it will not sound until 8 Aug owing to works taking place to repair the headstock of the bell  
15 Jul 2021 [16:45:46]+0winding by Richard Hayward and Jessica Fintzen  
15 Jul 2021 [16:32:44]+0Installed a pi-camera on pi-clock8 to look at the quarters release mechanism.  
15 Jul 2021 [07:22:25]+0Topup wind Dan Bodansky, Sarah Bodansky, and Jake Gallant - next wind due on Monday  
12 Jul 2021 [10:00:00]+0Something wrong with the Quarters - they got jammed overnight. The automatic system that alerts me to chiming problems is working a treat - I got an email at 8.15am this morning to say that the quarters didn't sound. Released and reset now - all fine now. This has happened before. Now happening more frequently. Need to get to the bottom of this.  
10 Jul 2021 [11:15:30]+0winding by John Aldridge  
06 Jul 2021 [17:11:40]+0ADJUST: +3000ms/day to 37000  
06 Jul 2021 [17:05:00]+0ADJUST: +8000ms/day to 34000 to account for the mass removed from the temperature compensator  
06 Jul 2021 [17:03:20]+0removed 543 grams from the temperature compensator - for Joel Williams' project.  
03 Jul 2021 [12:08:40]+0winding by Chloe Caron  
26 Jun 2021 [11:54:21]+0winding with Justin Welby and Dan Bodansky on the day of the Great Court Run  
20 Jun 2021 [09:02:39]+0winding by Alessa Weiler  
12 Jun 2021 [20:08:20]+0winding by Jessica Fintzen  
09 Jun 2021 [19:20:47]+0ADJUST: -300ms/day to 26000 during virtual clock tour for Ipswich Branch of the British Horological Institute (BHI) .  
05 Jun 2021 [19:07:10]+0winding by Alessa Weiler  
29 May 2021 [13:14:17]+0winding by Chloe Caron  
22 May 2021 [14:09:41]+0winding by Jessica Fintzen  
21 May 2021 [16:06:53]+0ADJUST: +100ms/day to 26300  
21 May 2021 [15:46:40]+0ADJUST: +200ms/day to 26200  
21 May 2021 [14:51:40]+0ADJUST: -11500ms/day to 26000 to account for the mass added to the temperature compensator  
21 May 2021 [14:41:40]+0added 543 grams to the temperature compensator - for Joel Williams' project.  
15 May 2021 [16:20:42]+0winding with Connie Bambridge-Sutton  
08 May 2021 [14:18:12]+0ADJUST: +700ms/day to 37500 and top up winding by Jessica Fintzen  
06 May 2021 [17:53:20]+0ADJUST: +2800ms/day to 36800 to compensate for the removal of the 96g weight  
06 May 2021 [16:53:20]+0start of Alumni Clock Tour Live - watch it on youtube [link]  
06 May 2021 [10:56:40]+0removed 96 grams from the temperature compensator - will it do what is expected? Joel will tell us.  
03 May 2021 [18:51:34]+0winding by Kazuo Newcombe  
26 Apr 2021 [13:07:37]+0winding by Kazuo Newcombe  
19 Apr 2021 [15:28:09]+0winding by Jessica Fintzen  
16 Apr 2021 [13:54:00]+0removed 12 kg from the going winding drum shaft - doesn't seem to have had any effect on the tilt measurement. [link]  
16 Apr 2021 [13:45:00]+012 kg suspended from the going winding drum shaft  
16 Apr 2021 [13:40:00]+0stopped the escapement for 6 seconds so that the world hears the time at the right time. Not wanting to regulate the clock until we have a good period of clean data to evaluate the performance of the new temperature compensator.  
13 Apr 2021 [16:47:00]+0changed clock tilt (Wyler) averaging period to 90 seconds from the prior 30 seconds, because we've found a 1/90 Hz periodic variation very probably due to a lantern gear in the clock drive (jpsa)  
12 Apr 2021 [12:08:03]+0winding by Chloe Caron  
11 Apr 2021 [19:05:00]+0removed 12 kg from the lantern-wheel bearing  
11 Apr 2021 [18:50:00]+0This suggests that perhaps only 2kg would cause the observed 0.008mrad variation.  
11 Apr 2021 [18:48:20]+0suspended 12 kg from the lantern-wheel bearing as a test on what force is required to shift the tilt measurement. Caused a change in tilt of about 0.05mrad in the expected direction (leaning towards St Johns) [link]  
06 Apr 2021 [18:00:00]+0... and then back from 45s to 30s  
06 Apr 2021 [15:56:00]+0... and then from 90s to 45s ...  
06 Apr 2021 [14:40:00]+0changed tilt (Wyler) averaging period from 30s to 90s ...  
05 Apr 2021 [16:33:41]+0shifted roving probe to be next to Cavity Temp T4 - they should read the same. This is by dint of calibration.  
05 Apr 2021 [15:42:33]+0Winding with Alessa Weiler Note that the Trinity strike stopped whilst striking 11am. There is not quite enough cable for a full 8 days. The St. Johns strike had been silent since Tuesday. Something must have gotten jammed.  
30 Mar 2021 [17:49:18]+0ADJUST: +800ms/day to 34000  
28 Mar 2021 [16:46:40]+0It's interesting to see how cavity temperatures are re-equilibrating [link]  
28 Mar 2021 [13:30:00]+0top-up wind. Note that with the opened up weight chute the clock will run for longer Next winding can be on Monday morning 5 March.  
28 Mar 2021 [13:29:22]+0Reset last_drift  
28 Mar 2021 [12:56:40]-17Did an experiment moving the regulation weights [link] noted that twist increases as the weights are moved towards Great Court (South). It's best to have as much weight to the North as possible. I guess this is because of the new temperature compensator. I wonder if there's a way to put it further North? There is defintely more twist [link]  
28 Mar 2021 [12:50:00]-17ADJUST: +9850 ms/day to 33200  
28 Mar 2021 [12:36:40]-17The clock is running very fast (gaining 158 seconds per day [link]) so I unscrewed the regulation nut by 3.5 turns (to +10s/day), and then by a further turn to 4.5 turns (to -32s/day). In Nov 2010 we reckoned on 40sec/day per turn. It looks more like 42 s/day per turn/  
28 Mar 2021 [11:55:00]-17Restarted the clock and restarted pibackup-clock, pi-clock5 and pi-clock10 (these were shut down for the duration of these antics). Also had to realign the twist prism which had got knocked  
28 Mar 2021 [11:53:20]+9Reinstalled the barometric compensator which has a new feature - a temperature fine-tuning compensator designed by Joel Williams 4th-year MEng student. The compensator has a radiator TRV with a weight suspended off it. To bein with we havd a 24g knurled nut and a 96g lead weight held on with a magnet. Let's see what happens!  
28 Mar 2021 [11:36:40]+9Reinstalled the pendulum, refitting the regulation weights platform, IR sensor shim, tilt leter, bubbles  
28 Mar 2021 [07:41:40]+9After cleaning everything out it all looks to run quite smoothly. The insert at the bottom looks to be the right way around because the tapered pin goes through the slot exactly in the centre.  
28 Mar 2021 [07:40:00]+9Weighed the various bits - centre rod 2.6kg (diameter 14.55mm), Zinc 4kg, outer steel 4.5kg  
28 Mar 2021 [07:38:20]+9Took the pendulum upstairs and dismantled it. Noted that about half a teaspoon of fine grit and a bit of sawdust came out. I wonder if this has jammed up the temperature compensation? Where did it come from? Possibly through the holes in the side of the outer tube from when we hacked open the pendulum space 17 March 2013  
28 Mar 2021 [07:36:40]+9Removed the pendulum by jacking it up using the long steel lever and some weights. Tapped out the tapered pin from the suspension and removed the suspension. Lowered the pendulum down onto a neat wedgde support arrangement that Mark Rainer had made for the last time we removed the pendulum (27 Nov 2010). Undid the regulation nut and manouevred the pendulum rod out down through C6 Great Court.  
28 Mar 2021 [07:35:00]+9Removed the regulation weights and their platform, the IR sensor shim, the Wyler tilt meter and the two tilt bubbles in readiness for removing the pendulum  
28 Mar 2021 [07:33:20]+9Measured the period of N-S swinging of the pendulum which is 30 swings in 68 seconds, ie 2.3 seconds. The amplitude of swing was about +/-2mm at the bob, ie +/-1mrad. Damping for this motion was high, about 4 swings to 1/e so zeta=1/8pi = 0.04  
28 Mar 2021 [07:31:40]+9I checked that the pendulum was running clear at the top of the perspex case, which it was (wondering if this might have been contributing to curious step changes in twirst phase)  
28 Mar 2021 [07:30:00]+9advancing the clock for Summer Time - should have been a 5-minute job, but I decided to mess about a bit  
27 Mar 2021 [14:46:16]-9winding by Jessica Fintzen  
26 Mar 2021 [15:50:00]-9...fixed the amplitude. JPSA  
26 Mar 2021 [15:24:30]-9Added Hann window to clocktwist FFTs (amplitude wrong to start with). JPSA  
25 Mar 2021 [16:13:43]-9winding by Chloe Caron  
19 Mar 2021 [20:33:22]-9top-up wind (so that I could get access to the weights to measure them)  
19 Mar 2021 [20:33:21]-9The weight chute has been opened up and lengthened in C2 Great Court. As a result I estimate* that the length of new cable required is as follows:Quarters - none (there seems to be ample cable on that drum) Going - 38m (33.4m +extra) 4mm 7x19 wire rope T-Strike - 38m (34.1m +extra) 5mm 7x19 wire rope J-Strike - 39m (34.8m +extra) 5mm 7x19 wire rope I suggest we get a 50m roll of 4mm 7x19 and a 100m roll of 5mm 7x19 This should be ample for the job in hand. Shall we leave it to Graham to procure the cable?  
19 Mar 2021 [20:33:20]-9*I base these estimates on a measurement of the distance from pulley to floor-of C2 Gt Ct (never before possible) of h=10.3 metres (estimated by measuring the length of a string dropped down to the bottom of the chute - but there's a wooden base of 100mm being made for the bottom). The lengths of the weights themselves are (in order G Q T J) in mm x= 750 1070 730 640. The horizontal distance from the weight chute to the appropriate drum in the clock bed is b= 2430 2080 3050 3500 The vertical drop to the clock bed is a= 2250 The estimates of required rope length is therefore 3*(h-0.1-x)+b+a = 33.1 31.8 33.8 34.5 (metres)  
17 Mar 2021 [13:30:00]-9screwed the pendulum case door closed tight  
17 Mar 2021 [10:08:20]-9top-up wind  
17 Mar 2021 [08:45:00]-9today the Works Department opened up the bottom of the weight chute and removed the cupboard from C3 Gt Ct. The weights have an extra two metres of travel. Plan now to lengthen the cables  
16 Mar 2021 [11:51:40]-9closed the door to pendulum case in C6 Great Court - immediately things go back to normal  
15 Mar 2021 [11:00:01]+0winding by Jessica Fintzen  
14 Mar 2021 [14:43:20]+0closed perspex case and clock case door.  
13 Mar 2021 [14:20:00]+0opened perspex case and clock-case door - a big down-draft, see [link] and photos here [link]  
13 Mar 2021 [12:43:20]+0opened door to pendulum case in C6 Great Court (it was closed - perhaps blown closed by wind?)  
08 Mar 2021 [10:05:36]+0winding by Alessa Weiler  
03 Mar 2021 [11:05:00]+0Opened the door on the case to the pendulum cavity in C6 Great Court - dramatic effect on the cavity temperatures and going. [link] Note with sadness the passing of Dr Neil Hopkinson, long-term occupant of C6 Great Court.  
01 Mar 2021 [13:10:51]+0ADJUST: +850 ms/day to 22350  
01 Mar 2021 [13:10:50]+0winding by Chloe Caron  
22 Feb 2021 [18:15:00]+0winding by Jessica Fintzen  
15 Feb 2021 [10:09:05]+0winding by Alessa Weiler  
11 Feb 2021 [20:55:00]+0shifted last_drift back by 9 seconds  
11 Feb 2021 [20:20:00]-9top-up wind  
11 Feb 2021 [20:06:40]-9ADJUST: -200 ms/day to 21500 and stopped the clock for 9 seconds,  
11 Feb 2021 [20:04:58]-9live talk from clock tower for Chapel Events.  
08 Feb 2021 [12:23:25]-9winding by Chloe Caron  
01 Feb 2021 [19:08:21]+0winding by Jessica Fintzen  
25 Jan 2021 [08:11:21]+0winding by Alessa Weiler  
18 Jan 2021 [13:27:26]+0winding by Chloe Caron  
11 Jan 2021 [20:37:55]+0winding by Jessica Fintzen  
04 Jan 2021 [13:30:15]+0nb every 3 months or so I need to log on to clockkeeper3@gmail.com and turn on less secure app access (use this link [link]) - this is to permit pi-clock5 to send warning emails if the quarters ring suspiciously  
04 Jan 2021 [13:30:14]+0winding by John Aldridge  
28 Dec 2020 [12:15:15]+0winding by Kazuo Newcombe  
21 Dec 2020 [13:32:00]+0winding by John Aldridge  
14 Dec 2020 [09:54:37]+0winding by Kazuo Newcombe  
12 Dec 2020 [12:08:10]+0top-up wind with John Aldridge and we reset last_drift by -15 seconds which is how much the clock has shifted as the weather cools down  
12 Dec 2020 [12:07:10]+0ADJUST: -550 ms/day to 21700  
06 Dec 2020 [12:03:52]-9re-aligned the prism for the twist sensor - I think the laser was reflecting off the side of the square aluminium tube making the spot flare out and indistinct.  
06 Dec 2020 [12:03:49]-9winding with Noah Weiler and Alessa Weiler - note that the clock is running ahead because of sticking of the pendulum?  
29 Nov 2020 [11:03:55]-3top up winding by Alessa Weiler and Chloe Caron  
29 Nov 2020 [11:03:54]-3unsilenced the clock for choir recording by Alessa Weiler and Chloe Caron  
29 Nov 2020 [11:03:08]-3silenced the clock for choir recording by Alessa Weiler  
28 Nov 2020 [19:01:56]-3unsilenced the clock for choir recording by Alessa Weiler and Chloe Caron  
28 Nov 2020 [11:36:49]-3winding by Alessa Weiler and Chloe Caron  
28 Nov 2020 [11:32:59]-3ADJUST: -150 ms/day to 22250  
28 Nov 2020 [10:59:39]+0silenced the clock for choir recording by Alessa Weiler  
21 Nov 2020 [17:26:08]+0winding by Alessa Weiler and Chloe Caron  
14 Nov 2020 [18:13:31]+0winding by Chloe Caron  
08 Nov 2020 [13:17:57]+0winding by Alessa Weiler and Chloe Caron  
01 Nov 2020 [13:10:08]+0winding by Alessa Weiler and Chloe Caron  
30 Oct 2020 [09:24:30]+0ADJUST: +400 ms/day to 22400 - further fine tuning  
27 Oct 2020 [12:23:00]+0ADJUST: +450 ms/day to 22000 - further fine tuning  
25 Oct 2020 [18:02:44]+0ADJUST: +1000 ms/day to 21550 - fine tune. Also repositioned the cover at the top of the perspex box - clearance was a bit tight and maybe the pendulum was making contact?  
25 Oct 2020 [11:12:45]+0ADJUST: +5000 ms/day to 20550 (will need fine tuning later) because we removed the barometric compensator for calibration,  
25 Oct 2020 [11:12:35]+0advanced clock by 23 hours (!) with Alessa Weiler, Jadd Virji, Isabelle Desisto and Chloe Caron  
23 Oct 2020 [11:13:30]+0Rather than debugging what looks like an obscure hardware issue with the existing pibackup-clock ADC & DS18B20 stuff, I've simplified it to use an off-the-shelf "ADC Differential Pi" from AB Electronics. Both temperature and tilt logging are working again (along with twist, which has been OK all along). (jpsa)  
22 Oct 2020 [10:04:00]+0... Fixed by John Aldridge "The file system on the memory stick is corrupt. I've reinitialized the file system on the existing memory stick, and I've added 3sec to last_drift to bring the logged data back into line with the data as of a week ago (I hope). Everything *seems* to be running OK. Let's see whether it stays fixed, or whether it breaks again! The symptoms now make sense: clocklogger was unable to read the last_drift (because of the corrupt filing system), was therefore assuming 0"  
21 Oct 2020 [13:15:12]+3winding by Chloe Caron. She checked that the pendulum IR detector light and GPS pps light were flashing OK. So the problem is probably in the electronics or software.  
21 Oct 2020 [07:00:08]+3...  
19 Oct 2020 [12:27:40]+4... There is a problem: "the clocklogger application is repeatedly crashing and restarting (and perhaps missing some ticks while that happens)  
19 Oct 2020 [12:26:40]+0John Aldridge took a look: "I couldn't see anything obviously wrong, sadly. I'm inclined, rather than spending ages trawling through possible broken wires on pibackup-clock, to see whether it can be replaced by a much simpler setup. I've ordered a differential input ADC card, I'll set it up on a spare pi of mine, and then bring it in to see whether the Wyler works well on it."  
17 Oct 2020 [15:45:00]+0ADJUST: -250 ms/day to 15550  
17 Oct 2020 [14:56:40]+0John Aldridge reports: "Twist measurement came up smoothly, after installing a couple of required packages: apt-get install python3-scipy and apt-get install python3-matplotlib. But for temperature reading I enabled the 1-wire interface, but something's wrong with the temperature probes. Is it possible you've knocked a connector while changing the card? They're not even appearing as devices: ls /sys/bus/w1/devices/ 00-340000000000 00-740000000000 00-b40000000000 w1_bus_master1 , but I don't think the 00- devices should be there at all (they seem to appear slowly over time), and there should be seven devices with names 28-0316838600ff 28-051684b88eff 28-041684689dff 28-04168464f2ff 28-0416847140ff 28-031683ef92ff 28-000006152a3f. Also, for tilt measurement I enabled the SPI interface but there's a problem. The line of code spi.cshigh = False now causes a Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in SystemError: error return without exception set. So unless you've knocked the connector to the Wyler as well, I'm puzzled and will need to debug more deeply."  
17 Oct 2020 [14:55:00]+0Upgraded pibackup-clock.trin.cam.ac.uk from its obsolete operating system 8 (jessie) to an up to date one 10 (buster). The operating system change has resulted in the ssh fingerprint for that machine changing, which means that the data collection is now failing. In the past, the Trinity system operator needs to to login as the "clocktower" user on trin-hosts, attempt an interactive PuTTY connection, and answer "yes" to the message "fingerprint has changed, would you like to update it". This then updates the registry, and the batch data collection will resume working.  
14 Oct 2020 [13:10:02]+0winding by Chloe Caron  
07 Oct 2020 [11:24:17]+0winding by Chloe Caron  
30 Sep 2020 [17:45:43]+0winding by Jessica Fintzen  
23 Sep 2020 [11:10:47]+0winding by Kazuo Newcombe  
16 Sep 2020 [16:18:21]+0winding by Chloe Caron  
09 Sep 2020 [13:10:58]+0winding by Chloe Caron  
02 Sep 2020 [09:45:08]+0winding by Kazuo Newcombe  
26 Aug 2020 [13:33:00]+0winding by John Aldridge. Also power cycled pi-clock5 to try get sunshine readings back.  
19 Aug 2020 [15:16:54]+0winding by Jessica Fintzen  
12 Aug 2020 [10:24:38]+0winding by Kazuo Newcombe  
05 Aug 2020 [12:31:00]+0winding by John Aldridge  
29 Jul 2020 [12:11:18]+0top-up wind  
24 Jul 2020 [16:22:39]+0winding by Jessica Fintzen  
18 Jul 2020 [19:02:00]+0correcting quarter bells silencing wheel (Jessica Fintzen)  
17 Jul 2020 [10:21:40]+0trying to get quarters to ring again and top-up winding (Jessica Fintzen)  
15 Jul 2020 [20:14:55]+0winding by Jessica Fintzen  
11 Jul 2020 [17:41:09]+0stopped the fly for 6 seconds, edited last_drift (cd clocklogger/data, sudo systemctl stop clocklogger.service , nano last_drift changed to -2.8, ^x , sudo systemctl start clocklogger.service )  
08 Jul 2020 [12:45:00]+0winding by John Aldridge  
01 Jul 2020 [10:05:00]+0...and topped up after 11am BST  
01 Jul 2020 [09:45:00]+0winding by John Aldridge  
25 Jun 2020 [11:17:50]+0Newton clock wound  
23 Jun 2020 [22:01:10]+0winding, just after 11pm so next week can be on Wednesday anytime before noon  
16 Jun 2020 [16:19:40]+0winding by Jessica Fintzen  
09 Jun 2020 [08:05:56]+0winding by Jessica Fintzen  
01 Jun 2020 [21:01:58]+0winding  
25 May 2020 [15:18:40]+0and also wound the Newton clock  
25 May 2020 [15:17:00]+0and then again left maintaining weight on after wind at 15h20. During wind it's about 5mW  
25 May 2020 [14:45:00]+0Then the maintaining weight on its own at around 14h46, total driving power around 12.6mW.  
25 May 2020 [14:39:00]+0top-up wind - and short experiment at 14h39 with extra 0.5kg on the maintaining weight. Total driving power is 14.3mW.  
22 May 2020 [15:20:00]+0ADJUST: +100ms/day to 15800 and top-up wind during Tea-Time Talk for DVRO  
20 May 2020 [18:02:52]+0top-up wind  
19 May 2020 [12:20:40]+0winding  
12 May 2020 [12:51:13]+0winding. Also an experiment on the effect of night-time pigeons, simulated by using the maintaining weight. At 13h17 GMT I engaged the maintaining weight which stays engaged for about 5 minutes. Then at 13h37 I did the same but with 0.5kg of extra weight. Then the same at 13h47. Then again at 13h54.:15 but this time I did the wind from about one minute in - maybe this will be noticed.  
05 May 2020 [17:07:29]+0winding. Also tried to fix pi-clock5. SD card and USB stick both seem to be dead, probably caused by USB stick being full. I've put a new SD card in (with the help of John Aldridge who has reloaded the software). Now need to ask Jordan to re-register the machine for data uploads. By the way, formatting new SD cards is now really easy using the Raspberry Pi Imager [link]  
30 Apr 2020 [13:00:00]+0it looks like pi-clock5 has frozen. This does tower tilt from the spirit level bubble, and it records the bells for timing GCR.  
28 Apr 2020 [11:00:00]+0winding. Also wound the Newton clock. Not, it was nearly at the end - 30 days after its last wind. Useful to know - it probably lasts 31 days.  
21 Apr 2020 [09:30:00]+0ADJUST: -300ms/day to 15700. Top-up wind  
18 Apr 2020 [14:26:40]+0restart pi-clock10 which had stalled for some reason. top-up wind by Beatrice Hunt  
17 Apr 2020 [15:07:27]+0winding  
10 Apr 2020 [10:12:01]+0checking the pendulum-case heater - it's hot. But it dislodged and now needs resoldering. Removed for repair, but in so doing I knocked pendulum in the process.  
10 Apr 2020 [10:10:21]+0shift regulation weights 40mm southwards to see if I can fix pendulum amplitude drops - maybe it's hitting something.  
10 Apr 2020 [09:55:21]+0ADJUST: +500ms/day to 16000. Winding (nb solo owing to COVID19)  
03 Apr 2020 [14:35:01]+0The clock had stopped shortly before noon: The pendulum was not swinging far enough anymore. Restarted the clock and used this occasion to wind it as well. (Jessica Fintzen)  
03 Apr 2020 [10:42:40]+0This appears to have been a pigeon event. Oh dear! Is the pigeon wire not working? [link]  
29 Mar 2020 [07:23:25]+0Also advanced and wound the Newton Clock in the Master's Lodge  
29 Mar 2020 [07:18:25]+0I shifted 10000 ms/day of regulation weights up onto the upper layer so that they can be as far north as possible, so as to minimize twist. I wonder of there's something wrong with the suspension, causing the twist?  
29 Mar 2020 [07:15:05]+0hour change for Summer Time, and winding solo owing to COVID 19 - definitely more fun with company!  
29 Mar 2020 [07:15:04]+0Procedure for advancing the clock on a Sunday Morning: Start at 08h02 (BST, ie new time). 1. insert the brass silencing devices for both quarters and strike. 2. With your left hand lift the escapement release never and allow the clock to run on, through 7.15, 7.30 and 7.45 (which will be silent) and then 8am will go through the motions of striking eight, but silently. 3. With your right hand grab the spinning fly shaft to slow the spin. 4. Come to a stop slightly beyond where you need to be and let go of the lever. 5. Now fine tune by stopping the fly for as long as is necessary to get the clock onto the correct time. 6. Now ermove the brass silencing devices. 7. Check that 8.15am quarters sound correctly. 9. All done!  
29 Mar 2020 [07:05:05]+0An experiment, shifting 5500 ms worth of regulation weights in five steps of 40mm from the north side of the pendulum shaft to the south side. The idea is to see how it affects pendulum twist. I suspect it's not a great experiemnt because the disturbance affects ampltude too and there's a strong coupling (linear?) between twist and amplitude.  
29 Mar 2020 [06:48:25]+0ADJUST: +150ms/day to 15500  
24 Mar 2020 [12:04:29]+0top-up wind  
20 Mar 2020 [20:34:46]+0winding by Jessica Fintzen  
19 Mar 2020 [15:09:48]+0Measured dimensions of fly for TC strike, conclude that the power dissipated is about 0.84W while the falling weight generates 4.8W  
19 Mar 2020 [14:40:12]+0ADJUST: +000ms/day to 15350 removed weights (magnets) from gravity arms, undoing 1580908800 . Amplitude should reduce.Was 48.44mrad, heading down to 47.8mrad  
14 Mar 2020 [17:24:20]+0reset last_drift  
14 Mar 2020 [10:23:53]+1top-up winding by James Penney and Alice Penney (matric '84)  
13 Mar 2020 [19:06:40]+1Winding with Jitka Stollova, Charles Roxburgh, Lisa Jardine-Wright, Willem H Ouwehand, Peter van Gool, Diduine van Gool  
10 Mar 2020 [18:30:00]+1restart of the weather station. It turned out that the back-up batteries were very old (best before date Jan07 ! Cleaning up the contacts and new batteries was all that was required.  
06 Mar 2020 [22:14:15]+1winding by Rui Li, Rosie Cates and Chloe Caron  
01 Mar 2020 [15:00:00]+1Restart of clocklogger after SD-card failure and reinstallaton. Instructions and software backup are here [link]  
01 Mar 2020 [09:46:54]+0correcting quarters at 9:15 (by Jessica Fintzen), they were out of sync by 15 minutes this morning  
28 Feb 2020 [21:11:23]+0winding by Areeg Emarah and Chloe Caron  
26 Feb 2020 [16:00:00]+0SD-card failure on the RPi that runs clocklogger.  
21 Feb 2020 [19:11:45]+0winding by Areeg Emarah, Marika Cash, Afia Addai, Filsan Hassan and Chloe Caron  
14 Feb 2020 [19:08:22]+0winding by Tereza Constantinou, Jaz Shao and Chloe Caron  
13 Feb 2020 [09:00:00]+0There was a power interruption after which the weather station stopped working - not sure why.  
08 Feb 2020 [14:06:40]+0added more weight to the escapement arms.  
07 Feb 2020 [21:10:56]+0winding by Areeg Emarah and Chloe Caron  
05 Feb 2020 [13:20:00]+0added weights (magnets) to gravity arms to see effect of changing driving force, with Joel Williams and John Aldridge  
02 Feb 2020 [17:34:38]+0ADJUST: +250ms/day to 15350 with Shan Tan-Ya and Stefan Haselwimmer - after talking about cambridgecarbonmap.org  
31 Jan 2020 [21:10:50]+0winding by Areeg Emarah, Filip Wronowski, Aryaman Reddi and Chloe Caron  
24 Jan 2020 [18:11:06]+0winding by Bianca Zerbini (Shadowing scheme), Areeg Emarah and Chloe Caron  
17 Jan 2020 [18:12:25]+0winding by John Aldridge and Chloe Caron  
14 Jan 2020 [23:03:20]+0ADJUST: -500ms/day to 15100  
10 Jan 2020 [13:18:44]+0winding by Richard Hayward and Jessica Fintzen  
09 Jan 2020 [17:47:04]+0Calibrating the tilt sensors using a car jack with help from John Aldridge. The jack was lifting with a force of severall 100s of kg  
03 Jan 2020 [16:16:34]+0winding by Kazuo Newcombe  
27 Dec 2019 [14:03:07]+0winding with Luise Grosche, Scarlet Grosche, Malte Grosche, Wilke Grosche, Catherine Barnard, Anna Cary, John Cary, Sam Cary, Joe Cary.  
20 Dec 2019 [13:59:11]+0winding by Kazuo Newcombe  
13 Dec 2019 [12:58:32]+0winding by Richard Hayward and Jessica Fintzen  
06 Dec 2019 [12:15:09]+0winding by Ruadhai Dervan and Jessica Fintzen  
29 Nov 2019 [19:34:14]+0winding by David Levi, Areeg Emarah and Chloe Caron  
22 Nov 2019 [19:09:40]+0visit and winding with the Master Dame Sally Davies, for her 70th birthday, Willem Ouwehand, Natasha Broke, Philip Broke, Frances Pearce Gould, Rupert Pearce Gould and Marina Dekker-Thomson with Chloe Caron  
18 Nov 2019 [08:26:41]+0winding with Jierui Shi, Tom Durrant, Laszlo Mandoki, Adam Cavender, Peter (Heedo) Woo, Katelyn Chelberg, Emilie Pauwels, Andrew Gee  
10 Nov 2019 [21:41:03]+0checked that heater is running, and looked for any bits (cables etc) touching the pendulum. All looks OK. Also installed 4MB USB stick to pi-clock10  
10 Nov 2019 [21:40:11]+0ADJUST: -400ms/day to 15600  
10 Nov 2019 [21:38:56]+0Winding by Jeremy Zolnai-Lucas, Toby Proudfoot, Leo Gu, Jack Wade (from NZ), Andrew Gee and Chloe Caron  
03 Nov 2019 [21:29:13]+0top-up wind by Traian Dumitrica and Dan Bodansky with Jessica Fintzen  
02 Nov 2019 [19:13:51]+0winding by Tom McGachie, Areeg Emarah, Anya Gera, Filip Wronowski and Chloe Caron  
31 Oct 2019 [11:45:06]+0installed additional bubble tilt meter on the pendulum suspension, with John Aldridge.  
26 Oct 2019 [23:38:24]+0winding by John Summers with Kazuo Newcombe and John Aldridge for the time change  
20 Oct 2019 [13:26:40]+0winding by Kazuo Newcombe: +100ms/day to 16000  
17 Oct 2019 [10:42:20]+0power cycled GPS box and rebooted clock.t.c.a.u to try to resolve drift measurement glitches (jpsa)  
13 Oct 2019 [21:16:40]+0winding by Francois Vibert (Pembroke), Jemima Williams (Newnham), Mayeule Huard (Corpus Christi), David Abaev, Hugo Sonnery, Irene Svoronos and Chloe Caron (all French - zut alors!)  
08 Oct 2019 [11:08:45]+0on the day of the Installation of The Master Dame Sally Davies, honoured by visitors up the clock Philip Bonn and James Talbot.  
07 Oct 2019 [14:04:53]+0visit by Michael Bradley from CUED/EDC  
06 Oct 2019 [20:13:07]+0winding by Thomas Wilkins, Sean Liu, William Foster, Elizabeth Hanna, Filip Wronowski, Chloe Caron  
04 Oct 2019 [12:56:39]+0Visit by Douglas de Lacey from Girton. Peter in Perth will be very jealous!  
29 Sep 2019 [16:41:30]+0winding by Emilie Linfoot, Claire Linfoot McLean, Darin McLean, Mike Allison, Bob Grimshaw, Liz Grimshaw and Bridget Sarah Grimshaw, Rachel Sweet after TrinTalks  
22 Sep 2019 [10:53:42]+0winding by Ingo Fintzen, Sabine Fintzen and Jessica Fintzen  
20 Sep 2019 [09:05:32]+0visit by Osamu Furuya, Satoshi Fujita, Suzuko Tamashiro and Keisuke Minagawa from Tokyo Denki University  
15 Sep 2019 [09:37:52]+0winding by Kazuo Newcombe  
08 Sep 2019 [10:23:45]+0winding by Kazuo Newcombe  
04 Sep 2019 [09:20:18]+0correcting quarters (by Jessica Fintzen), they were out of sync by 15 minutes since yesterday  
01 Sep 2019 [11:11:24]+0winding by Ayse Polat, Ailsa Keating and Jessica Fintzen  
27 Aug 2019 [11:59:26]+0 ADJUST: +100ms/day to 16000 with Jessica Fintzen  
26 Aug 2019 [16:27:45]+0ADJUST: +600ms/day to 15900 with Tony Robinson  
25 Aug 2019 [17:03:58]+0Winding by Kazuo Newcombe. Also installed a BME680 Temp/Humid/Pressure/Airqual breakout board onto pi3  
19 Aug 2019 [12:10:00]+0Reposition temperature and humidity sensor into the belfry (hemh/jpsa) on pi 3  
18 Aug 2019 [15:15:00]+0Top-up wind with Chloe Caron - not uneventful! We moved the perspex case top cover which looks as if it was touching the pendulum. Also shifted the heater cable so that it's nowhere near the pendulum.  
17 Aug 2019 [16:36:01]+0ADJUST: -300ms/day to 15300  
17 Aug 2019 [16:31:34]+0top-up wind by Marcel Llavero-Pasquina. Also, fixed the going - the pendulum was touching the cable for the heater again.  
16 Aug 2019 [10:27:36]+0ADJUST: -300ms/day to 15600 - over three months since last regulation. Amazing. Regulation weight calibration is 104ms/day per gram. The set of eleven weights is approximately (in ms/day): 5=50mg 10=100mg 20=200mg 50=500mg 100=1g 200=2g 500=5g 1k=10g 2k=20g 5k=50g 10k=100g  
11 Aug 2019 [10:43:21]+0winding by Emily Marr, Gideon Gray and Kazuo Newcombe  
04 Aug 2019 [23:37:57]+0winding by Aryaman Reddi and Chloe Caron  
28 Jul 2019 [16:09:52]+0winding by Michal M Graczyk, Aryaman Reddi, Filip Wronowski, Areeg Emarah and Chloe Caron  
21 Jul 2019 [13:38:51]+0winding by Aaron Brick, David Garcia, Franziska Sielker, Cameron Brick, Iosifina Foskolou and Kazuo Newcombe  
16 Jul 2019 [16:10:42]+0visit by Agnes Lepicard, Vincent Chriqui et Alice Chriqui (3.5 mo !)  
15 Jul 2019 [21:16:57]+0last-drift fixed  
15 Jul 2019 [13:31:04]-1power turned off by TC electricians. Restart, last-drift mismatch  
14 Jul 2019 [18:07:34]+0winding with Aryaman Reddi, Filip Wronowski, Filsan Hassan, Areeg Emarah, Chloe Caron  
08 Jul 2019 [19:08:08]+0winding by Chloe Caron  
03 Jul 2019 [10:19:41]+0winding the quarters with Amelie, Maggie, Alice, Dexter, Eli, Archa, Malachi, Joann, Cedar, Mark, Andor, Rupert from Cambridge Steiner School  
01 Jul 2019 [20:09:10]+0winding by Aryaman Reddi and Chloe Caron  
24 Jun 2019 [20:11:11]+0winding by Ailsa Keating and Jessica Fintzen  
17 Jun 2019 [19:26:10]+0winding with Claudia R. Schneider, Muhammad Asadullah Javed, Gabriel Recchia, Ellen M. Jameson, and Jessica Fintzen  
13 Jun 2019 [19:05:00]+0noticed that the wire for the heater was touching the pendulum. This explains the curious racing of the last few days.  
10 Jun 2019 [07:18:50]+0winding by Kazuo Newcombe  
05 Jun 2019 [21:05:00]+0reconnected the pendulum chute heater - it seems to have become disconnected when the cavity thermometer tube was reposityed.  
02 Jun 2019 [20:48:22]+0winding with Kathy Talbot, James Talbot and Andy Harter  
30 May 2019 [17:01:34]+0winding with Charlotte Hester, Katie Kemplen, Catherine Munn and Robert Chris  
23 May 2019 [08:05:05]+0winding by Kazuo Newcombe  
15 May 2019 [21:19:17]+0winding by Clare Redfern, Stephanie Bryant, Geoff Cook, Rob Allin, Will & Rachel Simonson, Keith Fox, Colin Bell, Bob White, Farady Institute Termy Dinner, Climate Change with Katharine Hayhoe  
12 May 2019 [08:03:31]+0winding by Kazuo Newcombe and Christian Owen  
04 May 2019 [21:12:08]+0winding by Jessica Fintzen, Laura Glau, Bianca Patton and Chloe Caron  
01 May 2019 [16:30:26]+0ADJUST: +200ms/day to 15900 with Derek Leadbetter and Laurie Leadbetter  
27 Apr 2019 [10:30:30]+0reset last_drift - which is the place where clocklogger stores it's last-known value of drift because when clocklogger restarts it can't otherwise know just from the GPS pulse-per-second output how many seconds ahead or behind the clock is. Do this by stopping clocklogger, editting last_drift and restarting clocklogger, as follows: 1. open a Terminal window and type cd clocklogger/data which will change the directory to /home/pi/clocklogger/data 2. type: sudo systemctl stop clocklogger.service which will stop the clocklogger process 3. type: nano last_drift and edit the number there to something close to what you think the drift currently is, then ^x to exit and save 4. type: sudo systemctl start clocklogger.service which will restart the clocklogger process All done. This means that the left hand column here can be set to +0  
27 Apr 2019 [10:18:30]+1wind with Kazuo Newcombe and Chloe Caron.  
27 Apr 2019 [09:35:50]+1It seems the pendulum heater cable became discnnected about now  
27 Apr 2019 [09:35:30]+1restart with Kazuo Newcombe and Chloe Caron. Not sure why the clock stopped. Maybe the pendulum was touching something, eg the temperature probe tube?  
21 Apr 2019 [20:12:34]+0winding by Ingo Fintzen, Jessica Fintzen, Sabine Fintzen and Chloe Caron  
16 Apr 2019 [18:50:20]+0ADJUST: -300ms/day to 15700  
14 Apr 2019 [20:10:55]+0winding by Chloe Caron  
07 Apr 2019 [09:36:03]+0winding by Chloe Caron, corrected for Wednesday's pigeon event  
04 Apr 2019 [11:48:45]+0pigeon! stopped for 1 minute  
31 Mar 2019 [00:22:33]+0Summer Time - clock put forward one hour by Chloe Caron. Winding by Jonathan Dove, Davie Evans, Liesbeth Blom, Chloe Caron, Matthew Eve, Arturas Raudys, Alasdair Middleton, Susan Bolt, Ludvig Brekke, Rosa Rahimi Aminzavvar, Moamina BIlal, Areeg Emarah, Paul Bonaer, Santiago Cabrero, Pip Matthews, Nick Breeze, Gavin Stark,  
26 Mar 2019 [11:04:54]+0winding by Joey Isenberg, Steb Fisher and Chris Morley  
22 Mar 2019 [08:07:37]+0ADJUST: +500ms/day to 16000 by Kazuo Newcombe  
22 Mar 2019 [08:06:38]+0winding by Kazuo Newcombe  
14 Mar 2019 [20:09:30]+0winding by Aryaman Reddi and Chloe Caron  
07 Mar 2019 [09:16:31]+0winding by Natasha Wilson, Alexander Maund and Chloe Caron  
06 Mar 2019 [14:41:15]+0Fixed twist sunshade with self-tapping screw, which unfortunately sheared off in the hole, so will be a pain to remove. Aligned laser & tapped prism to centre spot on screen (which was actually why the twist readings have been broken recently - the sunshade was in fact not the problem this time). JPSA  
27 Feb 2019 [22:20:00]+0Top-up wind with Andrew Forrest, Nicola Forrest and Claudia Kuginis  
24 Feb 2019 [17:23:20]+0winding by Martine Colpaert and Peter Van Overschee from Leuven, with Rick Enns and Hilary Costello.  
24 Feb 2019 [16:25:00]+0ADJUST: -500ms/day to 15500  
24 Feb 2019 [16:18:20]+0looks like weights at a distance (N, towards St John's) improve twist, as can be seen now they're moved back. Looks better again.  
24 Feb 2019 [16:13:20]+0checked that heater is working - yes, it is hot. Closed gap on top of perspex box. Also, moved 6000 of weights closer to pendulum centre to see if twist could be fixed. Waiting ...  
23 Feb 2019 [18:53:20]+0ADJUST: -4000ms/day to 16000 by Chloe Caron  
23 Feb 2019 [14:26:40]+0This [link] seems to show that the driven scale factor for going vs amplitde is about -150 ms/day per mrad  
23 Feb 2019 [13:20:00]+0ADJUST: reset to 20000 - this will need further fine tuning later once the amplitude settles. [link]  
23 Feb 2019 [11:40:20]+0In doing all this the Wyler orange level was disconnected, removed and replaced. Also the mirror for the twist measurement had to be repositioned.  
23 Feb 2019 [11:40:15]+04. removed large metal frame from barometric compensator. Now both aneroid stacks move independently. It will be good to see if the compensator performance is improved.  
23 Feb 2019 [11:40:10]+03. lifted pendulum and replaced suspension with the original. Joined by Chloe Caron and Kazuo Newcombe for this - very good to have help! The original suspension is defiitely not square, but the pendulum is now ticking much more evenly.  
23 Feb 2019 [11:40:05]+02. reconnected heater and made more robust connection so that it won't come unplugged again ... hopefully!  
23 Feb 2019 [11:40:00]+01. removed fan and tube - it;s ugly and not really very effective  
23 Feb 2019 [11:39:55]+0Clock restart, but with a few things done with the opportunity given that the clock has stopped:  
23 Feb 2019 [07:04:10]+0Clock stopped. Not exactly sure why, but the evidence suggests that the heater fell down and onto the bob causing the pendulum to hit the IR sensor as evidenced by large twist and the pendulum amplitude dropping rapidly. [link] . Here [link] it's clear that the heater had fallen down.  
22 Feb 2019 [10:12:26]+0Visit by John Schellnhuber, Patricia Mirrlees, Matthew Agarwala, Lukas Gast, Marcel Weiss and Parwana Fayyaz  
22 Feb 2019 [10:11:29]+0ADJUST: -500ms/day to 49050  
19 Feb 2019 [13:19:10]+0correct quarters - out of sync by 15 mins... and a top-up wind of five turns  
19 Feb 2019 [12:01:40]+OGCR=47.0 on top layer  
18 Feb 2019 [19:15:00]+0winding by John Aldridge  
17 Feb 2019 [20:02:29]+0ADJUST: +1000ms/day to 49550  
17 Feb 2019 [20:01:15]+0Visit by David Anderson - from Umbria ex Hong Kong, Bramhall Lane South, London, Dundee and Farnham ...  
16 Feb 2019 [12:16:07]+0Visit by Dan Bodansky from The Valley of the Sun! And we reconnected the heater wires that got loose last eek, thanks to JPSA  
11 Feb 2019 [08:09:43]+0ADJUST: +500ms/day to 48550  
11 Feb 2019 [08:09:10]+0winding by Ben Yass and Chloe Caron  
03 Feb 2019 [21:09:51]+0winding by Chloe Caron  
02 Feb 2019 [18:53:56]+0reset twist sensor sunshade again (jpsa)  
27 Jan 2019 [12:13:25]+0winding by Claire Murray, Pip Matthews, Lou Strasser, Mike Strasser  
25 Jan 2019 [08:10:00]+0winding by Ben Yass and Chloe Caron  
17 Jan 2019 [19:14:22]+0ADJUST: -750ms/day to 48050  
17 Jan 2019 [19:13:48]+0winding by Chloe Caron  
10 Jan 2019 [08:38:15]+0top-up wind  
10 Jan 2019 [08:05:00]+0Wyler level repositioned (and araldited onto its magnetic feet), clock reset by advancing 10 hours. Noticed that wind from the hour strike fly causes the barocomp to wobble a lot...  
09 Jan 2019 [21:45:00]+0the orange Wyler level fell off it's perch and stopped the clock!  
07 Jan 2019 [21:07:04]+0winding by Kazuo Newcombe  
07 Jan 2019 [21:00:00]+0switched off the fan - leaving the 8.1W heater running.  
04 Jan 2019 [11:03:00]+0added a 10ohm resistor, driver by 9V to provide 8.1W of heating. Let's see what happens!  
03 Jan 2019 [10:33:47]+0reversed the fan from blowing cold air down to sucking warm air up - with Kazuo Newcombe  
31 Dec 2018 [16:20:00]+0moved thermocouple from near the escapement to inside the perspex box, just by the fan intake. Knocked the pendulum hence restart.  
31 Dec 2018 [16:17:39]+0top-up wind by Elizabeth Wallfisch - sister extraordinaire!  
30 Dec 2018 [15:39:26]+0ADJUST: -15000ms/day to 48800  
30 Dec 2018 [15:27:57]+0messing about a bit this afternoon. Replaced the fan (see below, 26 March 2013) which was fiddly - had to stop the pendulum to position the 35mm plastic hose down to the bottom of the pendulum chamber without interfering with the swing of the pendulum. The pendulum got a few knocks so the going is starting from scratch. I added a couple of 100g lead weights, worth about 10000ms/day each, and I removed 15000ms/day of brass weights. Note the fan is blowing cool air down to the bottom (which I think is what it must have been doing back in 2013). But now we have a perspex case at the top and a good seet of thermometers.  
29 Dec 2018 [12:06:09]+0repositioned the orange Wyler level - it had fallen off it's magnetic supports - again! I glued the magnets on more carefully - with balsa cement. In doing so Iknocked the E-W vial which I re-leveled, repositioned and rotated. It too seems to be migrating. The other two vials seem to be OK on level, but rotating. I re-oriented them all and put some balsa cement on each of the vials.  
29 Dec 2018 [12:05:28]+0winding  
29 Dec 2018 [12:00:00]+0GCR=50.01s on lower layer  
22 Dec 2018 [12:33:20]+0winding with Laura Oosterbeek, Reece Oosterbeek and Kazuo Newcombe  
22 Dec 2018 [12:32:47]+0ADJUST: -300ms/day to 63800  
15 Dec 2018 [13:19:12]+0Winding by Victoria Royce, Leonard Royce, Kazuo Newcombe and John Aldridge (also repositioned Wyler level because it was creeping again)  
10 Dec 2018 [14:43:55]+0Top up wind by jpsa  
08 Dec 2018 [12:00:35]+0ADJUST: +600ms/day to 6410015460848001546084800  
08 Dec 2018 [11:58:17]+0winding by Danielle Barr, Guido Ruijl, Fabian Gomperts Willis, Sarah Nelson, Miranda Gomperts, Kazuo Newcombe and John Aldridge  
05 Dec 2018 [23:00:00]+0reset pi-clock5 spirit level position after camera remounting on 30th Nov (jpsa)  
01 Dec 2018 [10:07:48]+0changed last_drift from 7.5345 to 1.5 . clocklogger stoped with sudo systemctl stop clocklogger.service and restarted with sudo systemctl start clocklogger.service  
30 Nov 2018 [23:26:31]-7top-up wind after the Audit Feast: Charlotte Rossetti, Didier Queloz, Catherine Aiken, Brian Woods, Matthew Juniper, Joe Smith, Stephen Layton, Kirsty Ross, Rob Miller Ian McFarland  
30 Nov 2018 [17:31:10]-7finished fiddling. Thanks to Kazuo Newcombe, Jakub Suchanek and John Aldridge.  
30 Nov 2018 [17:15:29]-7ADJUST: +30000 to 63500 (large change due to n1546084800ew adjustment platform)  
30 Nov 2018 [16:30:57]-7. pendulum disturbance  
30 Nov 2018 [16:30:48]-6. pendulum disturbance  
30 Nov 2018 [16:30:36]-5. pendulum disturbance  
30 Nov 2018 [16:30:24]-4. pendulum disturbance  
30 Nov 2018 [16:30:12]-3. pendulum disturbance  
30 Nov 2018 [16:29:57]-2. pendulum disturbance  
30 Nov 2018 [16:29:42]-1. pendulum disturbance  
30 Nov 2018 [14:33:22]+0starting a few new things: 1. refit regulation platform to enable twist regulation. 2. New spirit-level vials for measuring vee-block tilt (N-S and E-W) and N-S suspension tilt. 3. New Raspberry pi-clock9 with camera and illuminator to monitor the three new spirit levels. 4. New screws on pi-clock5 camera.  
28 Nov 2018 [23:24:42]+1winding by Johan Bolhuis, Garath Wynn-Williams matric 1963, Julia, [Alun Preece, Lloyd Lloyd, Charles Garraway, Nigel Grant Rogers, Rodney Holder - matric 1968 - a 50-year reunion]  
24 Nov 2018 [12:52:14]+1fixed the pigeon event by running the clock forwards by 18 seconds. A few knocks of the pendulum while moving the level and trying to fit glass vial spirit levels. Note the change in twist, must be due to shifting the stiction of the vee block. Also, opened the perspex pendulum case to see if it changes air flow and temperatures.  
23 Nov 2018 [20:12:14]+1ADJUST: -500ms/day to 33500  
23 Nov 2018 [20:12:13]+1winding by Chloe Caron  
21 Nov 2018 [10:44:30]+1Pigeon event - clock stopped by about 18 seconds (thanks to Chloe Caron for spotting this)  
17 Nov 2018 [20:10:55]+1ADJUST: +500ms/day to 34000  
17 Nov 2018 [20:10:53]+1winding by Ben Yass and Chloe Caron  
10 Nov 2018 [09:07:20]+1winding by Part IA Engineers: Clara-Ann Cheng, Jakub Suchanek, Eoin Walsh, Hai Vu Quach, Sam Ernest, Lu Chen, Xinyang LI, Kazuo Newcombe, Ming Yang, Jonathan Edwards and Andrew Gee  
10 Nov 2018 [08:40:40]+1ADJUST: +500ms/day to 33500  
08 Nov 2018 [19:30:00]+1reposition the twist sensor sunshade which had slipped and was blocking the laser light path. I think that probably accounts for all the unusual twist readings since about 6am on 7th November (jpsa)  
02 Nov 2018 [20:13:37]+1winding by Danny Smith, Anna Mills, Kadi Sun, Aditya Jain, Robert Ogilvy, Chloe Caron and Andrew Gee  
27 Oct 2018 [23:02:00]+1Clocks go back. Pendulum stopped with Emily Winslow, Gavin Stark and John Aldridge. We removed the pendulum suspension (using a neat pendulum lifter) and put in a more symmetric suspension. Doesn't work so well!  
26 Oct 2018 [08:11:40]+0more filming with Chloe Caron, Rui Li and Graham Newman  
26 Oct 2018 [08:03:20]+0winding by Chloe Caron and Rui Li  
24 Oct 2018 [10:43:20]+0filming with Sue Dougan for a BBC Radio Cambs piece on the hour change. Stopped the clock for a bit, and removed the extra weights from the barometric compensator.  
23 Oct 2018 [08:17:32]+0ADJUST: +400ms/day to 33400  
23 Oct 2018 [08:14:32]+0winding by Suhaa Mahmood and Chloe Caron  
20 Oct 2018 [16:30:31]+0rebooted pi-clock5 because it had hung, not sure why (jpsa)  
15 Oct 2018 [20:08:23]+0ADJUST: -500ms/day to 33000  
15 Oct 2018 [20:00:52]+0winding by Ben Yass and Chloe Caron1546084800  
08 Oct 2018 [08:12:38]+0winding by Thomas Morrison, Mariana Gee Olmedilla, Andrew Gee and Chloe Caron  
02 Oct 2018 [14:10:00]+0today the carpenters fitted a nice perspex box around the pendulum - hoping we'll see a more-uniform temperature up the pendulum so that temp compensation will be improved. Pendulum got knocked a few times as we measured stuff and generally hacked about.  
01 Oct 2018 [14:10:00]+0removed the extension regulation arm which weighs 3000g. ADJUST: +31100 ms/day to 33500  
30 Sep 2018 [20:31:21]+0winding by Neil Brewis, Emma Brewis, Emma Gee Olmedilla, Andrew Gee, Chloe Caron with John Aldridge.  
25 Sep 2018 [10:00:00]+0removed the pendulum hood.  
25 Sep 2018 [09:55:00]+0ADJUST: 250 ms/day to 2400. Why did the -250 adjustment on the w/e have such a big effect?  
23 Sep 2018 [11:16:40]+0ADJUST: -250 ms/day to 2150  
23 Sep 2018 [11:15:00]+0winding by Khan Baykaner and Asal Faraghat with Hilary Costello.  
16 Sep 2018 [17:24:57]+0winding by Ashleigh Bridges and Mark Irving with John Aldridge  
16 Sep 2018 [10:29:45]+0partial winding with Andy Skipwith and John Robinson - MET graduates, matric 1989!  
09 Sep 2018 [14:02:05]+0Winding by Barbara Hassall, Martin Cassell, Neil Taylor, Angela Taylor with John Aldridge  
02 Sep 2018 [13:47:08]+0ADJUST: +300 ms/day to 2400 - it looks as if forecast for high pressure will not let the clock catch up  
02 Sep 2018 [11:22:01]+0winding with Issam Kourbaj  
02 Sep 2018 [11:21:30]+0ADJUST: +300 ms/day to 2100  
02 Sep 2018 [11:01:14]+0GCR=49.0s on low layer, pleasant day  
26 Aug 2018 [12:04:35]+0winding by Ben Yass and Chloe Caron  
19 Aug 2018 [12:03:24]+0winding by Ben Yass and Chloe Caron  
12 Aug 2018 [12:02:00]+0winding by Rob Elder with Pip Matthews.  
05 Aug 2018 [11:17:04]+0winding by John Aldridge GCR=48.5s on upper layer, hot day  
30 Jul 2018 [11:06:32]+0visit with David Hunt of Willingham who restored Beyer Square Piano #864 of 1788. Is David related?!!  
29 Jul 2018 [11:05:00]+0winding with Rick Lupton, Florence Lupton, Hugh Lupton, Claire Isbester, Noel Privett, Sue Washington  
28 Jul 2018 [19:40:41]+0bell not sounding, fixed with help of Freddie Blake, Benjamin Blake,Leticia Blake, Chris Blake, Tanya Codd, Ted Codd and Cathy Ennis  
24 Jul 2018 [22:08:44]+0A quick Byrd 3-part up the tower with Alex Jenkin, Sophie Sanford, Jonny Tsang and John Aldridge  
22 Jul 2018 [11:24:54]+0ADJUST: -300 ms/day to 1800  
22 Jul 2018 [11:05:04]+0winding by Rupert Gatti and company, Aryaman Reddi, Chloe Caron  
21 Jul 2018 [09:50:00]+0fixed hood touching pendulum problem. Indeed, tape was unstuck. Now amplitude rises and going is restored to normal.  
20 Jul 2018 [01:00:00]+0it appears the hood has moved (I guess some tape has become unstuck) and is touching the pendulum. Amplitude had dropped and going has risen.  
15 Jul 2018 [11:22:31]+0winding with Pamela Krones, Nancy Emig, Torsten Emig, Ted von Hippel, Filip Wronowski, James McBride, Areeg Emarah, Chloe Caron  
12 Jul 2018 [13:00:00]+0fittedf a hood on pendulum to help keep temperature constant along length of pendulum.  
07 Jul 2018 [22:20:27]+0winding with Carla Troyas Martinez, Leyre Troyas Martinez, Rita Troyas Martinez, Amelia Sloan, Jackie Getson, Peter Sloan, Lettie Thomas, Robert Elder, Beatrice Hunt, Pip Matthews and John Aldridge  
30 Jun 2018 [14:28:41]+0ADJUST: -200ms/day to 2100  
30 Jun 2018 [14:25:21]+0Winding with Ted von Hippel and Andrew Lockley  
26 Jun 2018 [16:48:12]+0Winding with John Aldridge, Tom Mullock  
26 Jun 2018 [16:43:12]+0ADJUST: +300ms/day to 2300  
19 Jun 2018 [23:18:37]+0Fairhaven murder mystery tour: Joanna Page, Robyn Sorensen, Eleanor Cramer, Pip Matthews, Paul Ashley, John Aldridge ...  
12 Jun 2018 [18:05:28]+0Choir winding: Tilly Dichmont, Frankie Postles, Ellie Tobin, Susie Hill, Anita Monserrat, Christopher Moore, Asher Oliver, Alex Hamilton, Lucy Prendergast  
10 Jun 2018 [10:51:54]+0ADJUST: -250ms/day to 2000 1546084800  
05 Jun 2018 [08:01:46]+0winding by Eve Avdoulos, John Anderson, Spencer J Brennan, Christoph Kehle random assortment of hockey players  
28 May 2018 [20:05:31]+0winding by Imogen Richards and Chloe Caronilip  
21 May 2018 [08:01:00]+0ADJUST: -250ms/day to 2250 and top-up wind  
17 May 2018 [08:50:00]+0winding with Fiona Holland and Shaun Peel (BBC East)  
13 May 2018 [00:06:49]+0winding by Ben Yass and Chloe Caron  
06 May 2018 [18:05:02]+0ADJUST: +500ms/day to 2500  
05 May 2018 [11:09:21]+0winding by Ben Yass and Chloe Caron  
27 Apr 2018 [23:16:15]+0winding just in time ... by Ian Whitwam - many thanks!  
20 Apr 2018 [11:22:23]+0winding with Mahee Walter. Mathieu Walter, Maite Votocek, Antoine Walter visiting from Paris and Francoise Votocek, Paul Ashley, Chloe Caron, John Aldridge, Graham Newman  
16 Apr 2018 [17:12:28]+0winding by Dana English, Rui Li, Yae Chan Yang, Olga Zadvorna, Guangda Yang, Ryan Lin, Paul Coxon, Ben Moss, Chloe Caron  
15 Apr 2018 [11:25:00]+0repositioned sunshine sensor, installed new painted laser screen, restarted sunshine/bubble pi because it had locked up (dunno why), inadvertently knocked wyler level  
09 Apr 2018 [12:30:00]+0installed new RPi with experimental sunshine sensor, and a camera looking at a bubble-level on the brickwork to try to see whether the tower as a whole is tilting (jpsa)  
09 Apr 2018 [09:09:41]+0winding by Areeg Emarah and Chloe Caron. Bravely waited until after 10am confident that the strike would last the full 7 days 12 hours, thanks to the adjustment of 27 January.  
01 Apr 2018 [21:28:00]+0wind with Andrew Lockley - who gets muddled between Oxford and Cambridge - mein Gott!  
29 Mar 2018 [14:02:57]+0top-up wind (8 turns = approx 24 hours) with Guillermo Aguirre Esponda - here from Mexico City with permission from his daughter, remembering our mutual friend and mentor Ken Wallace  
26 Mar 2018 [16:00:00]+0a few tweaks, with John Aldridge: 1. stop pendulum to lower the prism by a couple of mm to make sure that the twist laser clears the clock-bed beam; 2. cleaned the prism (a fingerprint was causing a big diagonal difraction streak); 3. replace the laser screen with a 1mm polythene sheet; 4. calibrated the tilt level (found that it was pretty good, 1mV/mrad and that the zero-offset knob doesn't introduce scaling errors); 5. restart pendulum and check going, no regulation required.  
25 Mar 2018 [00:20:00]+0ADJUST: -22000ms/day to 2000 as a result of all the meddling. restart the clock  
24 Mar 2018 [23:00:00]+0various things done on this summer-time-change night with James Strachan, John Aldridge, Robert Spencer, Graham Newman : 1. replace barometric compensator with a magnetic weight platform to allow for twist adjustment; 2. change orientation of the twist laser prism so that the direct-reflection 'flying spots' are on-screen for all theta; 3. Install a wide (aluminium) regulation bar so that regulation weights can be positioned off-centre; 4. installed four graphite-impregnated 1mm-thick nylon pads into the vee-block to reduce friction on pendulum tilt. This meant that the IR sensor neded to be shifted upwards a short distance so that it runs true.  
24 Mar 2018 [19:00:00]+0pendulum free decay experiment, lifted escapement and allowed pendulum to swing freely until 11pm, with John Aldridge and Robert Spencer  
24 Mar 2018 [13:00:00]+0induced twist by moving all the regulation weights to a distance of about 200mm from the pendulum centre (put them pack on centre for the 7pm free-decay experiment)  
18 Mar 2018 [12:20:56]+0ADJUST: +700ms/day to 24000 in readiness for clock change next weekend  
18 Mar 2018 [12:05:06]+0winding by Cambridge Blue and Green Badge Guides: Deborah Vaudin, Fran De'Ath, Tim Pearce Higgins, Ruth Meyer and Helen Barrs  
16 Mar 2018 [16:17:00]+0Adjusted twist laser brightness. Not sure whether the rheostat had got knocked, or whether the moving of the prism had affected it, but the camera was underexposing, resulting in noisy measurements. (jpsa)  
16 Mar 2018 [12:51:49]+0visit by Nancy Hynes and Oliver Morton  
12 Mar 2018 [17:32:38]+0rotated the tilt meter by 180 degrees  
11 Mar 2018 [19:01:10]+0forgot to wind the clock earlier. Rap on knuckles. Wound and reset for 7pm.  
11 Mar 2018 [19:01:09]+0I got it all fixed in about 15 minutes: The clock had stopped at 5.44pm and it was restarted at 6.50pm so I had to advance the quarters by one notch. The Trinity Strike had stopped during the strike of two, so that needed advancing 5 notches. Fortunately the St John's strike was still in synch with the Trinity Strike. The clock had to be advanced by 1h6m, with all bells on silent. Then did a full wind  
09 Mar 2018 [12:43:17]+0ADJUST: +300ms/day to 23300 fine tuning1546084800  
09 Mar 2018 [12:35:36]+0advance by 80 seconds - forgot to do that last night  
09 Mar 2018 [00:20:00]+0ADJUST: +1000ms/day to 23000 after raising the laser prism up the pendulum shaft - this was to introduce up-down asymmetry in order to determine the sign of the twist measurement.  
04 Mar 2018 [00:37:40]+0ADJUST: -1400ms/day to 22000 fine tuning  
04 Mar 2018 [00:34:20]+0remove USB level (disturbed orange level)  
04 Mar 2018 [00:31:00]+0ADJUST: -5000ms/day to 23400 on account of removing the barocompensator  
04 Mar 2018 [00:26:00]+0release jack, observe further twist and tilt change  
04 Mar 2018 [00:21:00]+0jack up central beam to 200kg, observe further twist and tilt change  
04 Mar 2018 [00:15:00]+0jack up central beam by 100kg, observe twist and tilt change  
04 Mar 2018 [00:00:00]+0restart twist loggerilip  
03 Mar 2018 [23:46:40]+0repeat twist experiment then restart pendulum  
03 Mar 2018 [23:45:00]+0installed new solid-state tilt sensor in parallel with the existing orange level  
03 Mar 2018 [23:07:30]+0stop pendulum, remove barometric compensator, replace twist prism, replace yellow-painted glass on laser screen with ground glass panel  
03 Mar 2018 [23:05:00]+0torsional disturbance to measure twist natural frequency while swinging and at rest  
03 Mar 2018 [23:00:00]+0arrived with Pip Mathews and John Aldridge for winding and to do some experiments. Removed heater from clock case. Put a curtain up in the window to block sunlight.  
03 Mar 2018 [17:00:00]+0put fan heater in clock case  
28 Feb 2018 [10:03:38]+0visit by Tom Besinger from Hainfeld and Frank Besinger from Berlin - just like old times!  
28 Feb 2018 [08:48:00]+0install new twist monitoring code, correct (at display time) erroneous pix->mrad scale factor used since 16-Jan (jpsa)  
26 Feb 2018 [09:30:00]+0with Stefan Savage, measuring some dimensions on the pendulum for some mods to be fitted on 24 March (clock change night). Switched off the level for a bit, and knocked the pendulum about accidentally.  
24 Feb 2018 [15:01:11]+0winding by Caitlyn Rayney and Charlie Vaughan - Perth and Melbourne respectively.  
17 Feb 2018 [12:15:00]+0replaced vellum screen on the laser twist sensor with a white polythene film. Thanks to John Aldridge for his help.  
17 Feb 2018 [10:35:00]+0noticed that two 200ms/day weights had fallen off the regulation platform. They were reinstated.  
17 Feb 2018 [10:07:45]+0Winding by Kelly Wing, Chloe Caron, Robert Spencer  
13 Feb 2018 [13:45:00]+0Oh no! Pigeon event. The clock stopped for 50 seconds. Is the pigeon wire not working?  
13 Feb 2018 [13:15:00]+0advance the clock by 50 seconds with Kristina Bifani  
09 Feb 2018 [22:28:48]+0winding with Rupert Thornely-Taylor and Emmanuel Dormyilip  
06 Feb 2018 [13:04:00]+0experiment, engaging the maintaining weight to see what effect it has on amplitude. Note that amplitude drops by about 0.09mrad.  
06 Feb 2018 [09:16:52]+0winding by Cameron Brick, David Brick, Mary Male, Kirsty Ross (and bump, again!), Adam Reeves Areeg Emarah  
02 Feb 2018 [14:30:01]+0ADJUST: -500ms/day to 28400  
29 Jan 2018 [21:25:00]+0winding by Roy Brander, Connie Brander and Smita Hope Gopisetty with Hilary Costello explaining the various temperature compensation, pressure compensation and general working of the clock - an enthusiastic and interested bunch  
29 Jan 2018 [14:41:07]+0ADJUST: +200ms/day to 28900 with Nick Breeze  
29 Jan 2018 [14:40:00]+0rotated the tilt sensor. It should now be giving readings arond +800mrads and the slope of plots vs tilt will be opposite sign  
29 Jan 2018 [14:38:20]+0shifted all 28900 to distance 200mm from pendulum centre  
27 Jan 2018 [14:02:00]+0shifted 23700 of the weights on theGCR regulation to from 50mm to 150mm off-centre as an experiment to see if pendulum twist can be controlled.  
27 Jan 2018 [12:25:00]+0ADJUST: -5000ms/day to 28700 owing to the added mass of the regulation platform.  
27 Jan 2018 [12:05:00]+0clock restarted  
27 Jan 2018 [11:50:00]+0cavity probe reinstalled in cavity  
27 Jan 2018 [10:14:00]+0cavity probe removed and insulation spacers added. Laid down on the carpeted floor to check for zero offset. Note that by 11.45am the temperatures have settled down to the same value.  
27 Jan 2018 [09:45:00]+0pendulum stopped for access to pendulum case, plugging holes to get rid of draught. Also removed nut on Trinity Strike weight to give two dongs of extra time, hoping to get 7 days 12 hours between winds. Also fitted temporary platform to allow regulation weights to be placed up to 150mm off-centre as a means of regulating twist.  
27 Jan 2018 [09:41:50]+009:41.50 close doo1546084800r to roof, End of experiment  
27 Jan 2018 [09:39:10]+009:39:10 open door to roof,  
27 Jan 2018 [09:37:50]+009:37.50 open clock case and remove shuttering around pendulum,  
27 Jan 2018 [09:36:10]+009:36:10 open door to C5,  
27 Jan 2018 [09:34:30]+009:34:30 close door to C5,  
27 Jan 2018 [09:32:15]+009:32:15 pendulum case opened,  
27 Jan 2018 [09:29:15]+009:29:15 hot water turned off,  
27 Jan 2018 [09:28:30]+009:28:30 run hot water,  
27 Jan 2018 [09:26:50]+009:26:50 close window,  
27 Jan 2018 [09:25:00]+009:25:00 open window of C5,  
27 Jan 2018 [09:22:00]+009:22:00 enter room C5 (Dr Hopkinson),  
27 Jan 2018 [09:16:00]+0Experiment to understand Bedmaker Effect: 09:16 enter clock room,  
26 Jan 2018 [17:35:00]+0end of experiment. [link] I reckon the shift of weight was about 0.25kg by 40mm - that's the same as 100kg by 0.1mm The pendulum bob is 100kg and the length is about 2m so the apparent tilt change is about 0.05mrad Look at x-y plot here of twist vs tilt (nb tilt volts is 1mrad/volt). [link] So it looks as if the 0.05mrad is in the right ballpark.  
26 Jan 2018 [15:00:00]+0experiment to see if shifting 20000ms worth of regulation weights makes any difference to twist. Looks promising  
25 Jan 2018 [21:28:11]+0winding by Robert Spencer, Khalid Aleen and Chloe Caron  
25 Jan 2018 [21:27:34]+0ADJUST: +1400ms/day to 33700  
24 Jan 2018 [10:46:00]+0improve chamber te1546084800mperature logging: correct bottom-top order, log at hh:mm:00 times, log to full 1/16 C precision (jpsa)  
23 Jan 2018 [18:00:00]+0checked the pendulum chamber thermometers, cleaned out the muck at the bottom, accidentally knocked the pendulum. As a test, left pendulum case door open.  
18 Jan 2018 [09:14:28]+0winding by Chapel eventers, Eesha Khare, Frances Ding, Zhe Li, Cheryl Jaing, Peter Juhasz, Kirsty Ross (+Bump - big), Gui Fritas, Tobias Tan, Paul Johnson, Vijesh Bhute, Aga Machaj, Thomas Graf, Janko Ondras, Elizabeth Huang, Charlotte Keinhorst, Peggy Xu  
16 Jan 2018 [09:14:39]+0ADJUST: +200ms/day to 32300 with Chloe Caron  
15 Jan 2018 [18:56:36]+0ADJUST: -250ms/day to 32100 on account of lowering the prism slightly  
15 Jan 2018 [18:10:00]+0reinstalled the laser twist sensor and RPi. Much neater casing and wiring.  
11 Jan 2018 [12:11:40]+0ADJUST: -150ms/day to 32350  
11 Jan 2018 [12:10:00]+0winding with Harry Druiff and Len Howlett  
06 Jan 2018 [23:06:40]+0ADJUST: +300ms/day to 32500 fine tuning after raising the prism. Also refitting the laser spot light shield that had fallen off.  
06 Jan 2018 [23:05:00]+0winding with Eloise Hunt, Helen Hayward, Richard Hayward, Patrick Maxwell, Ed Maxwell, Wilke Grosche, Malte Grosche, Michael Watt, Alan Windle after the Twelfth Night Feast  
01 Jan 2018 [21:28:24]+0Debounced the edge detection for the pendulum & PPS sensors (jpsa)  
30 Dec 2017 [23:20:00]+0ADJUST: +1015ms/day to 32200 to account for the raising of the prism on the pendulum - and a top-up wind  
30 Dec 2017 [22:02:00]+0winding with Mark Irving and John Aldridge.  
30 Dec 2017 [20:32:00]+0Replaced twist laser unit with a sleeker version, and stopped pndulum to raise the prism into line with the new laser - does it work?  
23 Dec 2017 [13:05:00]+0winding with John Aldridge  
18 Dec 2017 [17:40:00]+0winding, and switch to Raspberry Pi with Rick Lupton and John Aldridge  
11 Dec 2017 [20:50:53]+0winding by Sander v1546084800an der Linden, David Spiegelhalter, Anne Marthe van der Bles, Alex Freeman, Zsofia Szlamka, George Farmer, George Michael Pearson, Cameron Brick, Leila Finikarides  
10 Dec 2017 [19:06:07]+0clocklogger PC needed a "sudo reboot" and then "fsck /dev/sda1" (file system consistency check) which found many disk errors which were fixed.  
04 Dec 2017 [09:14:30]+0winding by Natalie Jones, Stephen Bayley, Annalise Higgins and Konrad Viebahn  
26 Nov 2017 [21:15:45]+0winding by Chloe Caron, William Baldwin, Ben Yass, Areeg Emarahilip  
19 Nov 2017 [10:13:40]+0winding by Chloe Caron, William Baldwin, Ben Yass  
11 Nov 2017 [23:30:42]+0ADJUST: +35ms/day to 31185 - by Chloe ... who is happy to take the blame.  
11 Nov 2017 [23:20:28]+0winding by Chloe Caron, Wang Yi, Chen Zhihang, Ben Yass, Wilfred Salmon, William Baldwin,  
04 Nov 2017 [12:41:34]+0ADJUST: -100ms/day to 31150  
04 Nov 2017 [12:39:07]+0winding by: William Baldwin, Rachel Onions, Phil Tower, Junhyuk Hwang, Philippa Nunn, Ben Yass, Max Vigdorchik, Haopeng Zhou, Chloe Caron,  
29 Oct 2017 [01:22:30]+0ADJUST: -50ms/day to 31250  
29 Oct 2017 [00:11:26]+1winding and time change by Ben Yass, Chloe Marie Leila Caron, Philippa Nunn, Rick Enns, Hilary Costello, John Aldridge, Chris Nickolaus, Alice McMichael, Andrew Gee  
23 Oct 2017 [20:22:56]+1winding by Carla Troyas Martinez, Sara Troyas Martinez, Giulio Crisanti, Adrian del Ser and Edward 1546084800Karmazyn  
16 Oct 2017 [08:37:38]+1winding by Anisiya Parker, Ulyana Gumeniuk-Parker (past Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts) and Iain Parker  
08 Oct 2017 [21:25:54]+1winding by Eriks Esenvalds, Stephen 'sid' Layton, Paul Ashley - after evensong with Howells Cool. Reg  
01 Oct 2017 [11:28:25]+1winders from Christ's - (and a ring-in from Caius) Miriam Guth, Fin Brown, Emily Marr, Dom Yates, Vilda Markeviciute, Binbin Jin and Emily Morgan (the ring-in)  
01 Oct 2017 [11:28:01]+1ADJUST: +150ms/day to 31300  
23 Sep 2017 [23:09:53]+1winding after Erasmus Concert: Rose Bradshaw, Ellen Jameson, Dan Tidhar, Mary Earl, Michelle Rigozzi, Ian de Massini, Imogen Phillips, Chris White, Lucy Wilson, Edward Lilley, Johanna J. S. Finnemann, Patrick Welche, David Lavender, Alexander Blustin  
16 Sep 2017 [16:09:06]+1winding  
09 Sep 2017 [13:46:01]+1ADJUST: -100ms/day to 31150  
09 Sep 2017 [13:40:32]+1top-up wind by Richard Thomas, Joanna Pyman, Philippa Mann and Francesca Mann  
07 Sep 2017 [20:14:34]+1winding by Mark Burrell, Reece Oosterbeek and Laura Oosterbeek - a flock of Kiwis  
31 Aug 2017 [14:08:49]+1top-up wind by Jachin Chng Yee, marissa chng min, Chng Ying Elizabeth, Sarah Siah, Chng Kai Fong (matric '97) - visiting from Singapore  
30 Aug 2017 [12:05:12]+1top-up wind by Hilary Dennis, Oliver Dennis, Rosanne Hunt  
29 Aug 2017 [17:05:12]+1winding by membrers of the Trinity PostDoctoral Society  
22 Aug 2017 [17:05:12]+1winding by Philippa Matthews  
15 Aug 2017 [17:05:12]+1winding by Rick Lupton and Chris Nickolaus  
08 Aug 2017 [11:43:50]+1ADJUST: +200ms/day to 31250  
08 Aug 2017 [11:35:49]+1winding with TC PostDoc Society: Ruben Valbuena, Manon Kok, Sara Lopez-Gomollon,Jeongmin Choi, Francisco J Navarro, David Llewellyn-Jones, Gareth Richards and new Title-A Fellows George Roberts and Hannah Stern  
01 Aug 2017 [17:05:00]+1winding with Chris Nickolaus and friend  
25 Jul 2017 [17:05:00]+1winding by Rick Lupton and some of his research group  
20 Jul 2017 [09:00:00]+1visit with Kasia Ladds from Cambridge Enterprise, experiment to determine torsional period of pendulum: 10 cycles in 16.1sec so T = 1.61s  
19 Jul 2017 [12:09:02]+1ADJUST: -150ms/day to 31050 with John Aldridge helping to calibrate the tilt sensor  
18 Jul 2017 [18:34:02]+1winding with guests of the Cambridge Summer Music festival  
11 Jul 2017 [08:13:20]+1top-up wind, more experimentsGCR  
10 Jul 2017 [11:15:00]+1top-up wind, and experiments on twist vs angle  
08 Jul 2017 [22:42:27]+1winding by Jitka Stollova, Lynnea Shuck, Eleanor Cramer, Pip Matthews and Alice McMichael - after the Fairhaven Summer Concert  
01 Jul 2017 [11:15:00]+1top-up wind by Tony Howes, Catherine Howes, Oliver Howes, Max Howes amd Mimi - a flying vsit from Brisbane. Also Jonnie Hunt, Ellie Hunt and Alex Hunt  
30 Jun 2017 [17:13:14]+1winding by the committee of the Trinity Postdoctoral Society - Samantha Hajna, Simon Hoer, Barbara Herdy & Adina Feldman, President emerita of the Postdocs of Cambridge Society (PdOC)  
23 Jun 2017 [08:10:52]+1winding by Mechanics Lab technicians Tom Guilbride, Simon Marshall,Graham Smith, and Curator of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science Joshua Nall and also co-scouting parents Naomi Griffiths and Jonathan Spikey Griffiths  
15 Jun 2017 [20:13:05]+1wind for Rag: Hans Yu, Nicholas Jamieson, Maxim Kuvshinov, Jenna Foale, David Ren, Jose G. Aguilar, Petr Kungurtsev, Jocelino Rodrigues, Nguyen Anh Khoa Doan, Francesca De Domenico and Denis Busquet  
14 Jun 2017 [12:00:00]+1GCR=49.1s on lower layer,  
06 Jun 2017 [17:50:00]+1wind by Ryan Mulholland and Chris Nickolaus  
01 Jun 2017 [15:15:00]+1ADJUST: -150ms/day to 31200  
31 May 2017 [20:28:49]+1winding by Greg Winter, Andy Lim (matric '76), Hwee Hua Lim (matric G '78), Jane Corbett (matric '78), Lydia Heinrichs, Hans Yu  
24 May 2017 [17:43:13]+1Wenwen Li, Bingan Chen, Julia Clarke, Richard Clarke, David Boulton, Immanuel Kemp - winders from Arthur D Little, on a glorious sunny day  
22 May 2017 [21:03:20]+1ADJUST: -150ms/day to 31350 fine tuning  
22 May 2017 [15:46:40]+1rotating the prism - it wasn't quite straight  
22 May 2017 [15:25:00]+1ADJUST: -16800ms/day to 31500 on account of the added mass of the prism  
22 May 2017 [15:24:12]+1witnesses to fitting a prism and laser to the pendulum: Orlando Pope, James Pope, Margaret Pope, Eleanor Pope, Kenneth Pope, Anna Pope - believe it or not all related - and from AUCS Adelaide. Also Andrew Lantry from Worshipful Company of Clockmakers and Baba Soile MEng (almost!) We also refitted the temperature probe  
19 May 2017 [22:01:54]+1winding after a SPRNGG meeting with Renaud de Richter de Montpelier et Philip Davies de Birmingham!  
15 May 2017 [10:15:00]+1stopped pendulum to remove temperature probe from pendulum shaft - temperature sensors need to be cross-calibrated  
13 May 2017 [09:20:08]+1winding by Joe Sherwood - IIA Engineer, Lisa Hobley and Anthony Hobley - climate emergency compatriots!  
06 May 2017 [09:21:47]+1winding by Gael Vidal-Garner, Leila Vidal-Garner, Maia Vidal-Garner, Mandy Garner and IIA Engineers Ed Wheatcroft and James Pavelin  
29 Apr 2017 [15:59:35]+1winding by CSER delegates  
22 Apr 2017 [08:32:29]+1winding by 3C6 students Antoine Dupuis and George Hawkswell - first timers!  
21 Apr 2017 [20:15:00]+0What on earth happened here? [link]  
15 Apr 2017 [19:00:00]+0ADJUST: +200ms/day to 48300 and wind  
08 Apr 2017 [12:06:40]+0top-up wind  
08 Apr 2017 [12:05:00]+0ADJUST: +5000ms/day to 48100 to correct for extra weights, exactly as on 25 March  
08 Apr 2017 [12:00:00]+0I've reinstated the extra weights to the barocomp as they were on Sat March 25 - total eight extra weights - and I've superglued them in place so they don't fall off!  
07 Apr 2017 [18:01:00]+0winding with Catherine Aman and Tania Villares Balsa from Cambridge Enterprise - and some Spanish friends  
07 Apr 2017 [18:00:00]+0repositioning the fallen barometric compensator weight. No sign of mouse droppings...  
06 Apr 2017 [02:10:00]+0it looks as if another of the barometric compensator weights has fallen off. Will have to wait until winding tomorrow night to fix. I wonder if a mouse is the problem? Always seems to happen at 3am-ish.  
31 Mar 2017 [08:00:00]+0ADJUST: -300ms/day to 43100 and wind  
30 Mar 2017 [14:41:13]+0ADJUST: -4700ms/day to 43400 after one of the barometric compensator weights fell off! I removed the other one that was delicately poised. So the barocomp has a total of six extra weights (each 120g)  
29 Mar 2017 [09:43:20]+0For the record, here are instructions for Silencing the Clock [link] - useful for instance when the Choir is recording in the Chapel  
26 Mar 2017 [00:03:00]+0ADJUST: +200ms/day to 48100 fine tuning  
26 Mar 2017 [00:01:00]+0advance clock for summer time, done by Alice Wilcox  
25 Mar 2017 [23:51:00]+0winding by John Aldridge, Chris Nickolaus, Alice Wilcox, Graham Newman, Imogen Newman, Gary Walkow  
25 Mar 2017 [17:45:00]+0ADJUST: +7200ms/day to 47900 to correct for added weight to barocomp  
25 Mar 2017 [17:25:00]+0added 480g to barometric compensator (four 120g weights) to see if I can overcompensate it, as a check on its performance  
21 Mar 2017 [11:25:45]+0There was a power cut overnight. Restarted easily (no disk errors). Also a small top-up wind so we can get through to clock change at midnight on Saturday.  
18 Mar 2017 [11:30:00]+0winding with Graham Newman and Andy Burdon  
18 Mar 2017 [11:20:00]+0re-hanging the going train cable with the new quarters-advance lever with the dogleg cut-out. Works well - no more clunky winding.  
16 Mar 2017 [14:30:00]+0pendulum stopped for fitting of pendulum shaft temperature probe. Also tried to measure horizontal flexibility of the clock frame at the pendulum suspension point. Rather tricky!  
15 Mar 2017 [07:45:00]-1wind, only 24 turns, in readiness for Graham Newman and Andy Burdon on Saturday  
09 Mar 2017 [15:15:00]-1fitting of new quatrers advance lever, and partial wind  
06 Mar 2017 [22:10:00]-1wind with Adrian Poole, Chris Morley and others  
01 Mar 2017 [14:30:00]-1top-up wind during fit test for new quarters advance bar with Stefan Savage  
28 Feb 2017 [18:00:00]-1wind during filming with Gary Walkow  
22 Feb 2017 [19:00:00]-1wind (storm Doris)  
15 Feb 2017 [12:15:00]-1wind with Stefan Savage, Daniel Flack and Baba Bob-Soile. Also made some measurements and accidentally knocked the pendulum  
13 Feb 2017 [17:30:00]-1Quinn the Harris Hawk ate a pigeon and got stuck behiind the minute hand causing a 186-second stoppage. Reset with the help of Helen Shao, Renos Lyssiotis and Gary Walkow, and we did a top-up wind.  
12 Feb 2017 [12:13:22]-1computer disc crash again - restart. Really need to get this Raspberry Pi going.  
10 Feb 2017 [08:00:00]-1winding, for the first time in ages on my own - no-one turned up for a 8am wind! Also checked winding constant - 7.8 turns per day. 20 dongs per turn.  
01 Feb 2017 [17:20:00]-1winding by Michael Vanoli - very energetic! It turns out that he's from Saffron Walden and knows Graham Newman from way back.  
31 Jan 2017 [15:48:00]-1clock stopped to do an experiment, restarted at 15:57. Measuring the tilt of the clock when subject to weights.  
31 Jan 2017 [12:00:00]-1GCR=49.7s on lower layer, cold day hence high air density so bells are slow due to drag on flys  
24 Jan 2017 [10:05:00]-1the computer hard disc is in a bad way - another restart today. About time we shift to Raspberry Pi?  
24 Jan 2017 [10:00:00]-1winding by Cal Revely-Calder and Adrian Poole  
16 Jan 2017 [22:05:00]-1winding by Cath Collopy and Bill Collopy  
13 Jan 2017 [18:05:12]-1winding by Michael Fulcher (Christ Church South Yarra) and Kirsty Ross - not 8-months pregnant this time.  
06 Jan 2017 [11:01:42]-1winding by Carolyn Wilson, Juliet Harkness (as in @TimandraHarknes) Piers Wilson and Dennis Harkness - after their family party at Corpus where they have a non-clock ...  
05 Jan 2017 [15:14:57]-1not sure what's happening to the clocklogger PC - I think the hard disc is on its way out. Had to do a hard (push the button for 5 seconds) reboot. Then up came a nasty black windo saying "file system errors" ... "requires manual fsck" so I did fsck /dev/sda1 and answered yes to all the questions. End with exit and it does a reboot.  
01 Jan 2017 [00:00:00]-1correction due to the leap second - to please Keith Rodgerson!  
30 Dec 2016 [13:31:04]+0ADJUST: -300ms/day to 40700 see effect of change here [link]  
30 Dec 2016 [13:30:04]+0winding by Oliver Grigg, Paula Windsor, Adrian Grigg, Jonathan Windsor, Gaenor Jones, Sophia Jones, Neil Jones, Amy Drinkwater, Rachel Bentley Sophie Grigg - serendipitous meeting with past Trinity Engineers  
27 Dec 2016 [21:37:18]+0winding by Ingo Drewry, Matilda Gomperts Willis, Jasmine GCRCeccarelli-Drewry, Fabian Gomperts Willis, Imogen Gomperts-Mitchelson and Ian Willis - all well christmas turkey'd.  
20 Dec 2016 [19:53:55]+0winding by Portia Drewry, Jasmine Ceccarelli-Drewry and Sheila Ceccarelli - all first timers!  
14 Dec 2016 [00:09:41]+0winding by visiting Melbournians Catherine Hedding and Megan McLaughlin - Catherine did all the hard work!  
10 Dec 2016 [16:50:08]+0ADJUST: +200ms/day to 41000  
10 Dec 2016 [16:48:43]+0Winding by Olivia Cutts, Nikki Cutts, Tim Cutts, Doreen Cuerden, Ian Cuerden before the Fairhavens Christmas Concert  
05 Dec 2016 [10:20:22]+0ADJUST: +200ms/day to 40800  
05 Dec 2016 [10:16:13]+0winding with Katherine Burchell - soon after her father!  
29 Nov 2016 [12:34:00]+0reset last_drift  
28 Nov 2016 [17:05:38]+1winding by Alice Archer - makes a change from Classics!  
21 Nov 2016 [08:01:27]+1winding with Benat Gurrutxaga-Lerma  
13 Nov 2016 [21:17:44]+1winding with Gary Walkow  
06 Nov 2016 [12:08:13]+1ADJUST: -420ms/day to 40600  
06 Nov 2016 [12:05:22]+1Winding by Eleanor Kornas and Paul Milhau - good exercise before Elly's organ recital this evening!  
05 Nov 2016 [17:36:30]+1On closer inspection I see [link] that there was weather data being logged (via RS232) very sporadically, so the PC was running. For instance, on Fri 4 Nov there are 31 weather records (instead of the usual 2880 records being one record every 30 seconds). There is a data record in the weather file at 4.18am on Sat 5 Nov and again at 11.24am. Full data (every 30 seconds) resumed at 17:36:30 after the computer restart.  
05 Nov 2016 [17:36:00]+1Found the computer running but unresponsive. Hard reset, but there's a Ubuntu crash report [link] ... if anyone can figure it out for me! Possibly not important because clocklogger is running fine  
03 Nov 2016 [07:00:00]+0Not sure what happened here - a power cut? [no, see later comments] The clock was fine - of course. The computer had stopped logging data.  
29 Oct 2016 [23:00:00]+0Clock change with Graham Steed, Chris Nickolaus, Filip Szczypinski and friends  
22 Oct 2016 [11:36:33]+0ADJUST: +100ms/day to 41020  
22 Oct 2016 [11:05:00]+0Clock winding Elizabeth Bourne, Kate Bourne, Jonny Bourne, Tina Queloz, Didier Queloz @didierqueloz - on a sunny saturday  
18 Oct 2016 [11:00:00]+0GCR 47.7s on upper layer  
16 Oct 2016 [11:31:01]+0ADJUST: +420ms/day to 40920  
16 Oct 2016 [11:07:46]+0winding by Cathy Costello, John Costello - managed by Hilary Costello - from Calgary.  
15 Oct 2016 [11:00:00]+0Great Court Run, four or five 'winners' with a certain degree of corner cutting in evidence ... GCR=47.3s on upper layer, it was decided that 48.5s on lower layer was too slow.  
10 Oct 2016 [21:09:10]+0Joseph Landman, Rupert Beale @dr_beale_ and Rory Landman, last minute winders  
03 Oct 2016 [09:05:00]+0winding by Wren Archivist Jonathan Smith - excellent!  
29 Sep 2016 [11:28:24]+0visit and short wind with Ron Oxburgh after a good discussion about climate change!  
25 Sep 2016 [20:08:58]+0Winding by Daryl Burchell - first timer!  
18 Sep 2016 [09:43:45]+0Great to have Lindsay Schusman winding - she's a Big Ben guide. Lots to talk about, and to compare between these two very different but almost identical clocks.  
11 Sep 2016 [17:03:41]+0Sofia Taylor, Olivia Tidswell, Mark Burrell, Rory Little, Aaron Wienkers, Maximilian Jakobs, Lukasz Kopec, Sarah Garland, Barbara Garland, Filip Szczypinski all sweaty after Zorb football - BA Society friendly, so everybody won  
05 Sep 2016 [14:20:00]+0Thanks again to Rick Lupton, fixed weatherlogger too. He converted the old file /etc/init/clocklogger (and same for weatherlogger) to the new one /lib/systemd/system/clocklogger.service. Now start it with "sudo systemctl start clocklogger" and check what it's doing with "systemctl status clocklogger". See the logging output with "journalctl -f". Here is the command history that Rick used to make the changes [link]  
05 Sep 2016 [10:20:00]+0Thanks to Rick Lupton for fixing the problem. Apparently the latest version of Ubuntu doesn't use upstart - it's been replaced with: systemd  
04 Sep 2016 [21:13:20]+0logging stopped because of upgrade to Ubuntu 16.04.1 - not sure what's gone wrong  
04 Sep 2016 [20:13:20]+0top-up wind  
02 Sep 2016 [17:09:20]+0winding by Adeline Klotz, Aaron Wienkers and John Aldridge - we had to fix the Trinity Strike which had stopped early  
26 Aug 2016 [07:05:00]+0winding by Frank Barker  
19 Aug 2016 [07:05:00]+0winding by Frank Barker  
16 Aug 2016 [08:42:00]+0Thanks to Frank Barker for restarting  
16 Aug 2016 [07:42:00]+0for some reason the clock stopped at 8.39am (7.39am GMT). Surely not a pigeon? See this <[link]> for a 6-minute zoom in of pendulum amplitude (each dot is a 3-second tick). Rather curious that it stopped for about 20 seconds then ran on fine for about 60 seconds and then stopped for good. One theory is that the minute and hour hands interfere with each other as they pass, but these photos [link] [link] taken at 8.44am a few weeks later seem to show that it's OK  
12 Aug 2016 [09:09:59]+0winding by Meredith Hadfield, Bryony Mountfort and Mantas Kandzezauskas (who actually piked out at the last minute!)  
05 Aug 2016 [09:12:58]+0winding by Alex Woolgar-Toms  
29 Jul 2016 [13:11:35]+0winding by Ollie Price matric 1989 and Paul de Panisse after much wranglings over gyroscopic effects  
26 Jul 2016 [16:21:14]+0ADJUST: +100ms/day to 40500  
23 Jul 2016 [17:04:45]+0ADJUST: -300ms/day to 40400  
22 Jul 2016 [08:05:00]+0winding with Alex Woolgar-Toms  
14 Jul 2016 [20:18:26]+0winding with Ben Ashforth @woollybenguin from Worcestershire - the longest clock-winding journey ever!  
07 Jul 2016 [11:14:44]+0filming of winding Eugenio Polgovsky - a good excuse not to wind, but he did do the heaviest one!  
07 Jul 2016 [10:55:00]+0ADJUST: +400ms/day to 40700  
30 Jun 2016 [08:15:00]+0winding by Alex Woolgar-Toms  
23 Jun 2016 [08:42:57]+0ADJUST: +600ms/day to 40300 and top up wind.  
19 Jun 2016 [11:09:41]+0Stopping of the clock to re-align the pendulum optic sensor. Here's a detailed graph of events <[link]> It shows 3 hours' data on Sunday I did a tapping at about 10.30GMT and accidentally touched the pendulum at 10.40, then stopped the pendulum and restarted at 11.10  
19 Jun 2016 [11:00:00]+0GCR=45.5s on upper level, just after wind  
19 Jun 2016 [10:55:00]+0Top-up wind by Phil Deakin, Fiona Burke, Joan Lasenby - witnessing a tapping of the pendulum, and accidental touch of the pendulum  
17 Jun 2016 [17:10:00]+0tapping the pendulum  
15 Jun 2016 [18:00:00]+0tapping rather more vigorously. A big drop in going! Maybe dislodged a sticking zinc tube in the pendulum, after all my insistence that it wasn't sticking. Maybe we need to take the pendulum apart again.  
15 Jun 2016 [17:30:00]+0tapping the pendulum always causes s drop in amplitude of swing. Never an increase. Is this a clue? Here's a detailed graph of events <[link]> It's zoomed into 2 hours 5-7pm GMT Note a tapping at about 17:30 caused a step drop in amplitude but a step rise in drift. I'm not sure I understand this. Then a more vigorous tapping at 17:50 caused a drop in amplitude but a step change in going. Is this the zinc tube unsticking?! Then a few minutes later, I don't think I did anything...!  
14 Jun 2016 [22:15:50]+0changing the suspension would count, in my view, as irreversible, because if it works then who would want to put back the old one? And there's not much point in going to the trouble (and it would be a lot of work) if there's no intention of using it. The barometric compensator is fine because it can be removed in under 5 minutes and the clock is back to its original state. Likewise the teflon tape and graphite powder. The only thing I don't like about the vibrator idea is that it needs a battery power supply. I'm wondering about energy harvesting from the bell flies to charge up a battery...,  
14 Jun 2016 [22:15:40]+0When I tap it I tap the shaft horizontally back and forth the 0.5mm a couple of times. PTFE is convenient. When I first put it in about a year ago (look at diary comments April to June 2015) it seemed to make a difference. Perhaps the graphite powder too. Not sure which! And for mods like knife edges, etc, they'd have to support the 100kg weight of pendulum. A contact area of 20mm^2 leads to stress of 50MPa so the "knife edges" would be quite thick. I suspect the 19c clock makers would have done it this way if it was a better solution. I also wonder about creating a third lightly damped degree of freedom. Torsion is already coupling with E-W swing, and adding N-S swing at a close frequency will be complex. I'm also reluctant to make irreversible changes to this heritage clock. The idea of a vibrator has crossed my mind, something I'll try if lubrication isn't enough.  
14 Jun 2016 [22:15:30]+0Some new information: I tapped the pendulum hanger and the pendulum amplitude suddenly reduced. Aha! I think the tower tilt theory is looking stronger. The optic sensor that measures amplitude is mounted on one side of the pendulum shaft (see photo [link] ) It's a top down view, so the sensor is at the bottom of the photo. Note that the pendulum suspension is in vee blocks so that if the tower tilts then it ought to remain swinging in a vertical plane. But friction (which I've tried to reduce with teflon tape and graphite powder) prevents the pendulum from being perfectly vertical. But if it swings out of verticla it also twists. Now, the sensor is off centre so twist registers as a change in amplitiude. So knocking the hanger has made the swing vertical and twist is reduced. In fact from this it is possible to decuce direction of tower tilt, and it's consistent with warming on the sunny side. Getting there!  
14 Jun 2016 [22:15:20]+0Thermal diffusivity is a useful parameter to describe heat flow through the stone walls. It is about 1e-6 m^2/s. This means that a step change in temperature will take 1 second to reach a depth of 1mm, and 3 days to penetrate half a metre. This is why I'm thinking that a gradual rate of change of temperature (over days) can cause tower tilt.  
14 Jun 2016 [22:15:10]+0The clock itself is an engineering marvel, accurate to better than 1 second per month. Most of the knots have been combed out, see here for example [link] and what remains are curious glitches that wouldn't even be noticed unless we'd bothered to look. What is great about this is the opportunity to revisit and admire the fabulous achievements of 100s of years of engineers and scientists and to see what little we can contribute ourselves.  
14 Jun 2016 [22:15:00]+0tapping the pendulum hanger to check if the twist effect is still happenning - and yes it is: [link]  
14 Jun 2016 [22:00:10]+0The other rather nice thing is that the tapping reducing pendulum amplitude increases going. This seems exactly in accordance with pedulum theory [link] so where does this leave the theory about amplitude increase being casued by the sensor being off centre?  
14 Jun 2016 [22:00:00]+0OK, so I went up the tower again tonight (with Paul Ashley to watch the St John's fireworks) and gave the pendulum hanger a second tapping. Yet another drop in amplitude (see below). If the theory is correct then as the temperature stabilises the amplitude ought to drop again and tapping should give upward steps. This should satisfy John Hodgson - I don't think economists are very good at making predictions! [link]  
14 Jun 2016 [13:30:00]+0winding with Sir Jonathan Ive and family and with Roberto Cippolla. Also tapping the pendulum hanger to see if there is a tower tilt effect.  
09 Jun 2016 [07:55:51]+0Winding with Anna Basaj  
06 Jun 2016 [14:00:30]+0 I have been thinking of sticking of the zinc-steep compensation in the pendulum tube. There are several reasons for NOT thinking it is a sticking zinc tube. 1. It is not sudden - it happened over 8 hours from 10am to 6pm <[link]> The clock normally responds very quickly to even the tiniest of mechanical step changes, eg <[link]> which was an adjustment on 1 May. 2. If the zinc is sticking then we would expect under-compensation, ie slower going as temperature rises. It seems to be faster, so it is the wrong way round. 3. It is a small effect, perhaps 200ms/day fast at the moment. Given that an uncompensated pendulum would be -600ms/day/C then if it were sticking we would expect something bigger 4. stress = E * alpha * dT and for zinc E=100GPa and alpha=30e-6/C , say. Then for a 1C temp rise stress = 3MPa, and with a cross section are of about 1000mm^2 then that is an axial force of 3000N, or 300kg. I do not think there is enough friction to sustain this. When we removed the zinc tube a while back it came out relatively easily. 5. There is a small cyclic stress pulse every 1.5 seconds due to centrifugal force. It s about 2N for a 100kg pendulum bob. This ought to be helping to dislodge sticking. But what can it be???? One clue, perhaps, is that the change occurred during a maximum of "rate of change" of temperature. But why?  
06 Jun 2016 [14:00:20]+0 To give you an idea of what is "normal" then here is data since November. [link] Note that the red and blue arrows indicate intentional adjustments, but that the recent glitch is really one of many, perhaps the most dramatic in recent months. You can change the date back a few years if you want. Also you can look at air pressure, humidity, swing amplitude, etc. Simon mentioned spiders - search for that in comments too. The spider incident was, I think, when a web was spun in the pendulum chamber. the pendulum amplitude reduced which speeds the clock up. But this time the amplitude has not changed, so it is not spiders again - I think.  
06 Jun 2016 [14:00:10]+0 Things like pigeons standing on the hands, wind, snow etc do not have an effect - that is the beauty of the gravity escapement. Likewise lubrication of gears etc. The effect of opening doors - do a search for "the bedmaker effect" - is understood too, after a fashion. The clock dial faces south and it is definitely possible that sunshine has an effect, but not as one would expect. I have a student (from St Johns) this year exploring the effect of warming of the south-facing wall, thermal expansion and therefore tower tilting. The pendulum develops a noticable twist from time to time and this I think is due to tower tilt. It would be good to see if tower tilt, pendulum twist and changes in going are correlated  
06 Jun 2016 [14:00:00]+0so what has caused this dramatic change in going? [link] Temperature compensation is good. Pressure also (air density affects buoyancy). Humidity is a small effect, humidity in this unheated room is fairly constant. There are step changes, like on 6 June. Still stron is the theory that sunshine on south-facing wall causes thermal expansion and tower tilt. I have a final-year project student (from St Johns !) to measure this effect, strarting October.  
05 Jun 2016 [12:08:58]+0clock tour for the winner of the Rag Auction: Andrew Sellek, Finn Kristensen, Anthony Wong, Noah Porcelli, Jess Young, Jess Callaghan, Daniel Thompson, Yuen Ng, Toby Henley Smith  
03 Jun 2016 [08:04:49]+0Winding by Tit hall engineers Isaac Uden, Micheala Chan, Nathan Clark and Joe Myescough from Windfall films!  
28 May 2016 [17:00:00]+0Winding by Nick Westby and Syuko Kato with Chris Nickolaus  
25 May 2016 [08:44:12]+0winding after a pedal-punt session with Julia Greenaway @juliacgreenaway, Ed Few, Barnaby Walker and Fiona Holland  
17 May 2016 [22:14:51]+0after Fairhavens, winding by Pip Matthews @orangepip86 and John Aldridge @jpsaldridge - always good to have help!  
15 May 2016 [11:21:09]+0visit by Janie Maxwell from Melbourne. She asked lots of great questions!  
10 May 2016 [14:20:41]+0ADJUST: -410ms/day to 39700 - and a wind  
04 May 2016 [20:49:30]+0Impromptu winding: Eriks Esenvalds @eriks_esenvalds , Inese Esenvalde, David Baulcombe @dcb40 , Maike Stam, Andrew Crawford, Adam Boise  
01 May 2016 [21:02:49]+0Great 'night-winders': Imogen Hipkin-Holland, Emma Gee Olmedilla, Carmen Olmedilla Herrero. Andrew Gee, Roberto Cipolla, Yvonne Higgons, Robin Higgons,Stuart Hendry, Alison Hendry, Liesbeth Blom  
01 May 2016 [20:58:21]+0ADJUST: +500ms/day to 40110 This is the first adjustment since 23 November. It is truly remarkable that the clock has run for 160 days before drifting outside of the +/- 3 seconds leeway that I give it. It seems that the temperature compensation is not perfect. Perhaps I need an extra 30ms/day per degree [link]  
24 Apr 2016 [10:38:27]+0Excellent winders: Olivia Cutts (youngest ever?), Louis Place, Nikki Cutts, Tim Cutts, Andrew Smith, Ray Morley, Louise Place  
21 Apr 2016 [21:55:46]+0winding by Trinity College Melbourne Alumni, fearless leader Ken Hinchcliff, Shivaan Bardolia, Nicholas Langford (@njwlangford), Georgina Baker, Taylor Callaghan, Michael Li, Alex Ross, Kirsty Ross  
18 Apr 2016 [09:09:31]+0winding by Duncan Malthouse-Hobbs @dunk1406 and Andrei Popovici - Trinity Computer lot!  
10 Apr 2016 [16:43:35]+0winding with help from Chris Nickolaus - lots of chat about tilting towers ...  
03 Apr 2016 [11:08:49]+0winding by Tamsin Cowley, Ian Cowley and Jasper Cowley with Chris Nickolaus  
01 Apr 2016 [12:00:00]+0Alex Woolgar-Toms top-up winding with friends  
27 Mar 2016 [00:05:00]+0clock change by Alex Woolgar-Toms and Chris Nickolaus - many thanks! And a full wind too  
24 Mar 2016 [12:05:00]+0instructions for the clock change - fiddling a bit with the escapement  
19 Mar 2016 [14:15:00]+0top up wind  
18 Mar 2016 [18:03:24]+0Winding by Trinity Catering Duo - Jessica Duck @fitduck and Peter Mezei  
11 Mar 2016 [18:10:04]+0winding by Chris Nickolaus - on a beautiful spring evening.  
04 Mar 2016 [08:03:26]+0Early wind by Arsalan Harris  
25 Feb 2016 [21:02:50]+0winding by David Lavender  
18 Feb 2016 [08:07:05]+0winding by John Ledger - part of the Logie Baird team!  
10 Feb 2016 [21:33:15]+0winding by the Combustion Group: Philip Sitte, Anna-Maria Kypraiou, Andrea Giusti, Harsha, Colleen Stuart, Patton Allison, Pedro Magalhaes de Oliveira, Jenni Sidey @jennimsidey  
03 Feb 2016 [18:58:28]+0winding with Felicity Lamacraft, Celeste Lamacraft, Arrate Molina and Austen Lamacraft - all very excitable inversely proportional to age!  
27 Jan 2016 [17:30:00]+0winding ably assisted by Terry Black from Windfall Films - all for a documentary about the first television broadcast in 1936. Thanks also to Peter Gauvain behind the camera and Henry Hocking on sound  
20 Jan 2016 [11:23:23]+0Thanks to Peter Windmill for winding at the last minute - and for correcting the bells that went out of synch  
12 Jan 2016 [23:07:48]+0winding after Fairhavens with Stephen Watson - Emmanuel College  
05 Jan 2016 [18:11:01]+0winding by Andy Jude and Hilary Costello - first for 2016  
29 Dec 2015 [17:43:36]+0Winders: Julian Cooling, Karen Bass and Chris Nickolaus, last wind of 2015.  
22 Dec 2015 [21:27:23]+0Clock winding by Deah Dhaliwal, Anya Dhaliwal and Sam Dhaliwal, shown the ropes by Hilary Costello - thanks!  
15 Dec 2015 [21:00:00]+0Winding by Rick Lupton - thanks!  
08 Dec 2015 [22:39:28]+0after three pints of Pegasus from the Maypole (in own glasses) winding by Ben Sparks @sparksmaths and Seb Falk @seb_falk  
01 Dec 2015 [09:08:34]+0Nick Denyer girding his loins for essay marking  
30 Nov 2015 [16:13:20]+0visit by Owen Ryder and Peter Stitt from Cummins Turbo - true mechanical engineers!  
23 Nov 2015 [21:36:40]+0yet more, from Peterhouse, Trinity and other colleges (Queens' perhaps?) Basil Mustafa, Ethan Silverstone @ethanjdanger, Ciara Norris @ciaranorris18, Fran Penrose @franpenrose, Farzana Huysman @farzanahuysman, Olufolajimi Babasola @folajimi_, Andreas Orphanou, Ruth Augarde, Ben Ferris @benaferris ,  
23 Nov 2015 [21:35:16]+0ADJUST: -90ms/day to 39610 - on advice from a Queens' student  
16 Nov 2015 [09:16:26]+0more Part IA Lego engineers! See Yee Tan, Yi Chao Ong, Chen Chun Chai (not clock builders!)  
09 Nov 2015 [09:43:05]+0Some observations on the effectiveness of the barometric compensator when it was removed for 5 weeks this year. July-Aug (compensator in place): <[link]> Sept-Oct (compensator absent): <[link]> Oct-Nov (compensator reinstated): <[link]>  
08 Nov 2015 [21:33:31]+0and winding by Emma Gee Olmedilla, Mariana Gee Olmedilla, Carmen Olmedilla Herrero and Andrew Gee  
08 Nov 2015 [21:09:23]+0Winding by IA lego engineers: Lizzi Hawkins, Elena Rastorgueva, Shrinikesh Arulselvan, Nimesh Patel, Seb Dickson,  
01 Nov 2015 [11:11:24]+0Winding by German and Danish Othello players: Matthias Berg, Erik Lund Jensen, Anita Raddatz, Ernst Raddatz and Imre Leader  
25 Oct 2015 [00:00:05]+0Clock Change for end of summer time, thanks to Alex Woolgar-Toms and Chris Nicklaus with Zoran Hadzhiivanov and Jim Minter  
19 Oct 2015 [12:33:20]+0ADJUST: +200ms/day to 39700 fine tuning after reinstalling barometric compensator. Also winding with Alex Woolgar-Toms who now has instructions for the clock change this weekend.  
15 Oct 2015 [14:23:05]+0ADJUST: -2300ms/day to 39500 after reinstalling the barocomp, and restarted the clocklogger after reconnecting GPS cable  
15 Oct 2015 [14:22:55]+0reinstalled the barometric compensator after a period without to see if it is working OK.  
14 Oct 2015 [22:33:40]+1accidentally pulled out the GPS cable - no data until next day  
14 Oct 2015 [22:33:27]+1TEA evening winding by CATHY ZHU,Jacky Yang, Guangzhi Sun, Andreas Kattamis, Federica Freddi, Vlad Tomescu, Marijana Vujadinovic, Arsalan Harris, Thomas Burridge, Gordon Hannah, Christopher Langridge, ajit ghosh,BradleyBull Daniel B Zoscha P Chris P, Isabel Vallina Garcia, Dusan Perovic, Dr Steven Whitehouse  
10 Oct 2015 [17:30:13]+1GCR 47.5s on the day of the Great Court Run. The ITV news report on the Great Court Run and the Clock is here [link] - rather nicely done  
06 Oct 2015 [11:00:30]+1top-up wind. Also installed a plumb bob to look for tower lean due to sunshine on south wall. Will have to wait for next summer.  
06 Oct 2015 [11:00:20]+1GCR 47.4 on top layer. Note that the Strikes do 20 strikes per revolution and 156 strikes per day - that is 7.8 turns per day. There are 19 turns on the top layer so the clock should be wound at least 2.4 days before the Run. Thursday at noon is a good time.  
06 Oct 2015 [11:00:10]+1The clock is 3s fast but I'm in the middle of an experiment to see how the clock runs without the barometric compenasator. Hence the correction by -3 seconds  
01 Oct 2015 [11:00:20]+1filming with Stuart Leithes - and a top-up wind  
28 Sep 2015 [20:02:56]+1winding with Peter Dawe - very interesting evening!  
24 Sep 2015 [08:31:37]+1winding by Fiona Holland @trincollcam - College Communications Officer - we have one at long last!  
20 Sep 2015 [16:40:00]+1Could this be a pigeon event? [link]  
17 Sep 2015 [14:12:21]+1wind with Nick Breeze and Luke Parsons. Nothing went wrong, so no litigation required. There is time, says Luke.  
14 Sep 2015 [15:00:00]+1wind while Paul Ashley takes photos - very nice ones indeed! [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link]  
11 Sep 2015 [08:15:23]+1Winding by College staff today! Jack Mortimer Francesca Baker-Pitman, Kirsty Ross, Karen Wells, Lee Froggatt, James Hobbs, Taylor Reynolds  
06 Sep 2015 [17:04:00]+1ADJUST: +1800ms/day to 41800 required after removal of barometric compensator  
05 Sep 2015 [14:17:40]+1ADJUST: +500ms/day to 40000 removed barometric compensator as an experiment to see how well the compensator has been working. In particular, I want to find out if the compensator also affects temperature compensation. For data this summer we seem to have dG/dp=-4ms/day per mbar and dG/dT= 46ms/day per deg [link] . This was worked out by finding the plane of best fit of the G(p,T) graph.  
03 Sep 2015 [21:38:53]-1top-up wind and in-depth discussion of physics with Dagmar Sternad, David Franklin, Daniel Wolpert and James Talbot from Peterhouse College...  
03 Sep 2015 [17:05:00]-1ADJUST: +300ms/day to 39500  
03 Sep 2015 [17:00:00]-1winding with Malcolm Crocker, Ruth Crocker and David Newland  
28 Aug 2015 [11:00:00]-112th Cambridge Scouts winding with visitors from 12th Cambridge Scouts Ontario: Scouters: Colin, Hannah, Lisa, Catherine, Katie, Shelley. Scouts: Jonnie, Ben, Beba, Eleanor, Rebekah, Alex, William, Canadians: Sam, Sak, Bryce, Scott, Nathan, Joshua, Nicola, Tristan, Jacob, Connor, Brenden, A.J. followed by a punting trip and tea in Grantchester!  
25 Aug 2015 [19:35:17]-1The @bbcpm piece is around 5:43pm here [link] Quite fun! @BBCRadio4  
23 Aug 2015 [15:30:00]-1Julian Cooling (Adelweigian) thoroughly enjoyed the clock. He and Chris Nickolaus had a lengthy discussion on the subject of the Trinity and Hobson Conduits.  
16 Aug 2015 [20:06:30]-1winding by Ryan Wall, Kerrie Wall, Daniel Flack @drf39 @RWall1993  
10 Aug 2015 [20:00:00]-1Akemi Matsushima, Kengo Matsushima, Naoto Matsushima, Kanji Matsushima with Chris Nickolaus. Originally from Japan, visiting Cambridge on summer holidays from the US.  
07 Aug 2015 [17:22:51]-1winding with Dan Larsen  
31 Jul 2015 [08:00:00]-1winding thanks to Alex Woolgar-Toms  
23 Jul 2015 [21:34:36]-1Winders from the International Summer Schools: Kong Kit Tung, Lo Hoi Yi Joey, Shi Min Png, Ho Wing Tone Stephanie, William Strider, Isabella-Jane Shah @jbella_z , Cheng Tsz Ching Phoebe, Estefania Vega, Michelle Westlake, Tony Hoskins, Tang Chung Yan Sandy @yan_cy1, Kimba Wong, Carrock Sewell, Susan O Drake, Nanthaya Tisavipat, Rupert Gregg, Ernest Colvin  
21 Jul 2015 [20:41:27]-1Anne Stillman, Adrian Poole & Murray Stewart very politely in agreement with my Bentley theory ...  
19 Jul 2015 [10:00:00]-1Winding by Fairhavens after Selene Webb's memorial concert: Carl Rutti, Marie-Louise Rutti, Carys Brown @HistoryCarys, Rupert Beale, Paul Merchant, Howard Leithead  
12 Jul 2015 [11:46:56]-1Charles Southey, Jane Foster, Simon Foster, Mike Radford, Katharine Radford, Chris Clarke, Rachel Rummery, Gavin Rummery, Stuart King, David Cundy on a tour of the clock  
05 Jul 2015 [21:00:00]-1Winding with Richard Garrett, Emmanuel Candes, Gaby Candes, Joan Lasenby, Anthony Lasenby, Robert Lasenby, Nick Kingsbury and Chris Nickolaus  
02 Jul 2015 [18:00:00]-1winding, Chris Nickolaus  
01 Jul 2015 [00:00:00]-1Leap Second  
28 Jun 2015 [11:30:00]+0ADJUST: -100ms/day to 39200, also put teflon tape into the pendulum vee, also top-up wind  
27 Jun 2015 [11:00:00]+0Winding by Annabel Hawkins and Hattie Hawkins, home from Dubai for the summer. Ably assisted by Mike Hawkins and Chris Nickolaus  
25 Jun 2015 [10:05:00]+0Winders from Cambridge Steiner School: keelan, daniel, adam, yano, indigo, akashi, pip, Emma, Trishna, John MacGinnis, Ute  
25 Jun 2015 [08:51:08]+0ADJUST: -150ms/day to 39300  
20 Jun 2015 [15:59:21]+0Visit by Judy Hall from Bendigo  
19 Jun 2015 [13:30:00]+0GLITCH Christos Kakoutas helped lever up the pendulum to get graphite under the hanger.  
16 Jun 2015 [23:00:00]+0Trip up the clock tower, and top-up wind, by the winner of the RAG Auction Joe Tomkinson and his friends, Sreya Saha, Tom Rychlik, Lara Booth, Alistair O'Neill, Guus Berkelmans. John Howe, Alex Burgess, Jasmine Girdlestone, Rory Bolsover, Christopher Sear, Lara de Salis  
14 Jun 2015 [11:30:38]+0GLITCH winding by Neil Hamer and Christos Kakoutas. Also tapped the pendulim hanger to get the graphite powder in - hope to level out the going  
09 Jun 2015 [13:15:00]+0setting up a method for observing the out-of-plane motion of the pendulum. Bumped the pendulum a couple of times ... [link]  
05 Jun 2015 [11:15:06]+0Winding with Christina Gladkova, Alex Woolgar-Toms and Rob Baldwin - many thanks!  
05 Jun 2015 [11:00:00]+0GCR 49.1s on lower layer  
04 Jun 2015 [11:00:00]+0Up the Tower: Adyseia,Sheldon,Sarah,Kien,Joseph,Nathan,Deronte + Mr Cooksey - Ark All Saints Academy @ArkAllSaints & Eric Lowe - great fun!  
29 May 2015 [17:00:00]+0Winding by Chris Nickolaus and Zoran Hadzhiivanov - many thanks!  
22 May 2015 [11:39:23]+0winding by Simon Copley and Rob Baldwin  
15 May 2015 [23:00:00]+0GCR 46.5s on upper  
15 May 2015 [22:07:20]+0winding top up by Huw Price, Preston Greene @pregreene, Catrin Campbell-Moore @catrincm, Cecilia Tilli, Man-Sze Li, Sean O hEigeartaigh, Patrick LaVictoire, Stuart Russell, Luke Ding  
14 May 2015 [23:06:38]+0Winding with Nick Breeze @nickgbreeze after the Ascension Feast  
12 May 2015 [11:05:00]+0GCR 49.9s on lower  
08 May 2015 [09:01:16]+0Winding by Atul Bhaskar - my past student, famous for his columns...  
02 May 2015 [21:35:40]+0Winding after Britten Sinfonia concert by Lily Bacon, Keith McNeil, John Wallwork, Andy Harter, Kate Bull, David Spiegelhalter @d_spiegel  
01 May 2015 [14:45:00]+0ADJUST: -200ms/day to 39450  
25 Apr 2015 [11:05:00]+0wind by Stuart Leithes @leithesitv Also tapped the hanger to encourage graphite powder into the vee.  
25 Apr 2015 [11:00:00]+0GCR = 50.5s at noon on lower layer  
20 Apr 2015 [17:05:00]+0top-up wind, and graphite powder put into the pendulum hanger vee notch hoping to make a difference to irregular timekeeping. The theory is that sun shining on the south wall of the building causes thermal expansion and tilting of the whole tower. The pendulum then will swing out-of-plane. The graphite will help the pendulum to find the vertical more readily  
16 Apr 2015 [18:10:00]+0top up by Chris Nickolaus and visiting engineers from Japan Osamu Mochizuki, Mitsu Ogawa and Char Kumagai.  
12 Apr 2015 [12:05:00]+0winding by Gill De Boer and Matt Henderson, guided by Hilary Costello.  
11 Apr 2015 [15:08:00]+0winding on Jasmine Drewry's 18th birthday: Corinna Ceccarelli, Dora Gaal, Morna Elliott, Kev Elliott, Jack Elliott @_jackelliott_, lucien hopkinson, skye holland @skyeholland_studio, Ingo Drewry, Giorgio Ceccarelli,  
05 Apr 2015 [11:12:29]+0ADJUST: +100ms/day to 39650  
05 Apr 2015 [11:03:29]+0Winding on Easter Sunday by @jasperkoid @ZuziaBulu (Duong Le) and Nigel Goodman  
29 Mar 2015 [00:05:00]+0GLITCH Clock change for Summer Time done by Chris Nickolaus, Rob Loxley and Kristian Hoffman  
26 Mar 2015 [17:00:00]+0ADJUST: -100ms/day to 39550 with help from Chris Nickolaus  
24 Mar 2015 [12:19:26]+0ADJUST: -150ms/day to 39650  
24 Mar 2015 [12:08:37]+0Visitors from the Oxbridge Academy: Virginia @virgintuh, Amy Jurskis, Justin Lubin, Maria Elena Grimmett, Madison Outlaw @Sent2TheBeast, Blake Clement, Daniel Fischer,Isabella Greene, Patrick Baratta @peanutbaratta , Caitlin Craig-Burke, Alexis Berman @lexiberman, Samantha Spritz @sasspritz,John Klemme @jklemme, Grace Hines, Shoshana Simons, Desi Isaacson, Kella Merlain-Moffatt @kella_nutella , Sarah Ormrod (ICE), Jack Eubanks, Aidan Dermody-McKeen  
22 Mar 2015 [21:02:03]+0winding with Chris Nickolaus - noticed warm air rising up the weight shaft. Maybe important?  
15 Mar 2015 [15:41:13]+0ADJUST: +200ms/day to 39800, and winding by Jordan Smith and Mallory Minter  
11 Mar 2015 [23:19:15]+0ADJUST: +50ms/day to 39600, and winding by @AlbaSotorra Clua , Maia Galarraga, Tony Hoskins - glider out of the attic!  
04 Mar 2015 [13:00:00]+0winding with Jeremy Sallis from BBC Cambs  
26 Feb 2015 [18:12:40]+0ADJUST: +150ms/day to 39550, and winding by Peter Windmill and Gwen Francis with @B_R_Moss  
19 Feb 2015 [08:00:00]+0Winding by Peter Windmill  
12 Feb 2015 [12:05:36]+0GCR 48.3s noon on upper layer  
12 Feb 2015 [09:30:00]+0resetting the time and the bells  
12 Feb 2015 [08:30:00]+0Peter Windmill kindly wound the clock but the bells all need resetting  
12 Feb 2015 [03:30:00]+0GLITCH Oh dear, I forgot to wind the clock!  
04 Feb 2015 [13:46:47]+0Winders Keith Lyons, Oskar schortz @os321_oskar, Bianca Carew @Lavender_Barn, Jessica Duck @fitduck  
02 Feb 2015 [12:50:15]+0ADJUST: -300ms/day to 39400  
28 Jan 2015 [14:25:00]+0Winding by @Eaterofsun Oliver Morton. He's in Cambridge to talk over #srms15 @SRMscience as he's chairing the Panel [link]  
26 Jan 2015 [14:15:00]+0GLITCH another top-up wind, and again tapping the pendulum support to see if it affects going.  
23 Jan 2015 [15:05:55]+0GLITCH top-up wind, and tapping the pendulum support to see if it affects going.  
22 Jan 2015 [00:35:19]+0winding at this antisocial hour. No takers? No surprise!  
14 Jan 2015 [18:03:00]+0Winding by Michael Walsh - Trinity Lawyer ... even interested in practical things!  
07 Jan 2015 [12:04:07]+0Winding with the help of Carole Humphrey after her cooked breakfast in the Masters Lodge ...  
07 Jan 2015 [12:04:00]+0GCR 49.6s noon on bottom layer  
01 Jan 2015 [16:54:47]+0thanks to Peter Windmill for the first wind of the New Year  
25 Dec 2014 [12:15:05]+0Christmas Day winding - Lyudmila Sviderskaya, Vlad Kravchuk, Diana Kravchuk, Tom Lewis @cambwineblogger, Zhanna Lewis, Christina Lewis and Alexander Lewis @ATL_YM - Santa's winding helpers!  
22 Dec 2014 [00:24:05]+0Winding by the Roberts family: Alex Roberts, Christopher Roberts and Luke Roberts with the help of Mike Roberts and Jane Roberts, under the expert guidance of Hilary Costello.  
14 Dec 2014 [11:52:35]+0Winding by Marianna Sykopetritou - first timer! GCR = 46.7s noon on upper layer  
09 Dec 2014 [08:00:07]+0ADJUST: +400ms/day to 39700, winding, and sun shade in window to see if solar effects are important  
04 Dec 2014 [14:24:26]+0winding with Louis Kovalevsky and Philippe Besnier  
28 Nov 2014 [09:48:02]+0ADJUST: -500ms/day to 39300 after weather got colder, temp compensation is looking OK, but so keep an eye on it  
28 Nov 2014 [09:45:21]+0winding: Louise Driffill @ldriffill and Stefan Schaefer - before talking shop about geoengineering!  
23 Nov 2014 [12:10:00]+0GLITCH three fixes: 1. cleared a spider web (probably not significant) 2. taped up door in pendulum cabinet in room below, may stop draughts 3. increased clearance with optic sensor on pendulum (maybe was making contact?)  
23 Nov 2014 [12:06:59]+0winding with Stuart Anderson and Ingo Abraham @ingoabraham1 from North Wales (Rhyl) just escaped from Colditz Castle!  
21 Nov 2014 [10:00:00]+0GLITCH what happened here?! The amplitude dropped dramatically and the going sped up as a result.  
18 Nov 2014 [17:11:14]+0winding during a Mechanics and Structures supervision: Aniruddh Raghu, Osman Ramadan, Akhass Wasti, Nicholas Kateris, Kevin Wang, James Lewis (not an engineering student!)  
11 Nov 2014 [17:44:15]+0winding up more than Hugh Hunt with Jawwad Farid @Jawwad_F , Tejal Shanbhag and David Morris @DaveTheTall  
08 Nov 2014 [19:06:47]+0GLITCH top-up wind and removing baffle on pendulum shaft to see if it makes any difference to temperature control.  
07 Nov 2014 [12:29:29]+0winding with Adam Keith - thanks!  
07 Nov 2014 [12:00:00]+0GCR = 48.5s on lower layer  
31 Oct 2014 [09:08:49]+0Alison Playford from C Great Court did the winding today!  
25 Oct 2014 [23:30:18]+0Bold decision by John Aldridge (ok, I agreed) that we leave the going slightly fast because the clock seems to be over-compensated for temperature. It is about 100ms/day fast now, but in the cold part of the winter will it turn around for us? We can celebrate with one extra beer if it does!  
25 Oct 2014 [23:25:40]+0GLITCH clock stopped for the time change with Ben Moss @B_R_Moss, Emily Moss @Aus_Moss, John Aldridge @jpsaldridge, Filip Murar, Dan Safka @RubiCycling, Michal Buran - also did winding  
18 Oct 2014 [13:11:36]+0I have installed another 256MB of DDR memory on the clock logging computer (yes, it is an old PC!) total is now 760MB. Also installed Konqueror browser because Firefox was very leaky. Also tidied up with apt-get autoremove. Thanks to Per Ola Kristensson for hi s help and advice  
18 Oct 2014 [12:00:00]+0GCR = 46.5 s on upper layer  
18 Oct 2014 [10:14:17]+0ADJUST: +200 ms/day to 39800 and winding before the Great Court Run with Isobel Kristensson, Julia Kristensson and Per Ola Kristensson GCR=49s on lower layer (extrapolated from 11am) We will see what it is at noon today  
11 Oct 2014 [16:19:37]+0top-up wind by Cathy Costello and Sean Costello and Hilary Costello - a heap of Canadian Costellos!  
09 Oct 2014 [09:38:36]+0The barometric compensator seems to be doing its job really well at the moment! [link]  
08 Oct 2014 [09:23:06]+0also winding by 3rd-year engineers: Andrei Dobrisan, Sarah Gibson, Natalia Koupanou, Rafal Gaworski, Chen Ma, Jessica Glynn, Michela Gramola, Victor Sun, Nevena Nikolic, Archit Goyal  
08 Oct 2014 [09:23:00]+0 winders: Ananya Miskra, Callum Easton,  
23 Sep 2014 [12:08:50]+0Top-up wind with Per Ola Kristensson - knows what an escapement is!  
19 Sep 2014 [17:56:17]+0winding by Chris Bishop and Tom Cook  
12 Sep 2014 [08:00:00]+0ADJUST: +300 ms/day to 39600, and a top-up wind. Aiming for zero at time-change, midnight Sat 25 Oct. We will see!  
09 Sep 2014 [13:00:00]+0top-up wind  
08 Sep 2014 [17:00:00]+0wind, weather station working again!  
08 Sep 2014 [16:43:20]+0GLITCH Weather logger still out of action  
01 Sep 2014 [13:45:00]+0GLITCH Barry James from Romax did a top-up wind, weather station still out of action  
30 Aug 2014 [15:00:00]+0Ipswich branch of the British Horological Institute and the Bury St Edmunds Branch of the Antiquarian Horological Society visited today and did a top-up wind  
27 Aug 2014 [18:00:00]+0top-up wind with Martin Kyte (MRC LMB) - he wants to build a tower clock with a double 3 legged escapement!  
24 Aug 2014 [17:45:00]+0GLITCH winding and computer restart, trying to get weatherlogger to work!  
20 Aug 2014 [15:00:00]+0computer restart, and top-up wind by Hilary Costello  
17 Aug 2014 [19:00:00]+1GLITCH winding by team Canada: Stephan Bots, Rick Enns, Hilary Costello, Weather logger out of action again...  
14 Aug 2014 [13:01:00]+1winding by Mark Rainer and (mostly) Daniel Flack - his first time!  
10 Aug 2014 [13:50:03]+1reset drift correction by restarting clocklogger after changing the value of last_drift from 4.1 to 1.1  
07 Aug 2014 [13:20:00]-2GLITCH thanks to Mark Rainer for winding, weather station still out of action  
01 Aug 2014 [15:05:19]-2Winding by Pauline Smith, Senior Porter - her first time!  
27 Jul 2014 [22:00:00]-3wind, and it is very hot up there!  
25 Jul 2014 [11:30:00]-3The weather station is back online! many thanks to Rick Lupton for his help, so near to his wedding...  
25 Jul 2014 [10:26:40]-3GLITCH Weather logger still out of action  
20 Jul 2014 [11:00:00]-3top-up wind with newly-doctored Stephanie Hill and Simon Jones. Off to Bath.  
20 Jul 2014 [10:56:00]-3the wear patterns on the quarters strike plate are looking normal [link] . Perhaps just filing it down and greasing it is all that was needed.  
17 Jul 2014 [10:00:00]-3visit to the clock by TC computer office guys Andrew Cullen and George Townsend, with Rick Lupton showing them how the web-based monitoring system works. They also did a top-up wind.  
16 Jul 2014 [10:00:00]-3GLITCH Great to have Graham Newman helping with the clock - fixing the Quarters anomaly: from time to time the quarters will skip and the quarter-past does an hour, the half-past does quarter-past etc. Why? A real mystery. [link] , weather station still out of action  
12 Jul 2014 [10:00:00]-3top-up wind with Malcolm Good. Investigating the Quarters mystery: why does the clock occasionally miss striking quarters?  
10 Jul 2014 [23:33:29]-3winding after the Geoengineering debate for Cambridge Summer School: Matt Watson (no winding) @matthew__watson, Malcolm Good, Terje Doeviken, @giovannibisutti, isobel smith, Alanna Punch, Katharina Tomaschek who used the last key!  
06 Jul 2014 [11:06:53]-3GLITCH winding after a boozy Annual Gathering (well done!) by Miss Li Yan, Dr Richard Manns, weather station still out of action  
28 Jun 2014 [23:05:57]-3GLITCH winding: Beatrice Hunt, Matthew Dougherty, Harriet Kilduff @littlehduff, Hannah Kilduff @hannahkilduff, Louise Dorignon @therightscale, weather station still out of action  
27 Jun 2014 [09:23:31]-3winding with Dan Safka @Rubicycling  
20 Jun 2014 [16:04:50]-3GLITCH Linda Bahnweg, Anne Bahnweg @AmagierDesign, Simon Fleischer - Ein Erlebnis in Camridge, ohne die Bayern laufen die Uhren in Cambridge nicht richtig :-), Weather logger still out of action  
19 Jun 2014 [12:00:00]-3Great to show Carlos Montes from @FoodAcademyUK the clock, and he did a bit of winding...  
18 Jun 2014 [09:05:00]-3winding by Douglas Buisson - his first time!  
16 Jun 2014 [11:00:00]-3GCR = 50.4s at noon - on lower layer. Video here [link] - a bit windy and noisy with the fountain splashing  
10 Jun 2014 [20:47:38]-3winders - winners of the RAG Auction - Anna Elliott, Wilfred Jim Bagnall @wilfbagnall, @TheoCollier, Stefano Novello, Henry Anderson-Elliott, James Tennison, Huw Walters, James Ladbrooke  
08 Jun 2014 [18:15:00]-3top-up wind  
08 Jun 2014 [18:11:50]-3ADJUST: -500 ms/day to 39300  
08 Jun 2014 [18:11:40]-3Jonathan Richman is helping to rebuild the datalogging system - many thanks!  
08 Jun 2014 [11:01:40]-3GCR = 49.4s at noon - on upper layer. Note that the rehanging (shorter hangers) has slowed down the St Johns strike (repeat). They are both pretty even, Trinity = 18.1s and StJ=18.5s . Lets see what this is like on the lower layer.  
08 Jun 2014 [11:00:00]-3Singing from the Towers at noon - listen to the clock strike 12 [link] or here on youtube [link]  
07 Jun 2014 [17:00:00]-3GLITCH winding and the Deans Party with @KateLamble, @joemyerscough, and their friends - names to be supplied (Amy and Simon?), Weather logger still out of action  
06 Jun 2014 [12:00:00]-3winding: it looks as if the new hangers give 7.5 days less two dongs on the Trinity Strike, so here is the new winding table:  
06 Jun 2014 [11:58:20]-3 -wind before : | 1| 2| 3| 4| 5| 6| 7| 8| 9|10|11|12|
-stops during: |12|12| 2| 3| 4| 5| 6| 7| 8| 9|10|11|
assumes stops 76 strikes beyond 7 days (7 days = 1092 strikes)  
29 May 2014 [23:00:00]-3Top-up wind after Ascension Feast - Paul Mylrea, Patrick Maxwell, Mark Dunhill  
29 May 2014 [11:01:40]-3New cheese weights: TC=116kg (TC1=20.5kg TC2-22.7kg TC3-22.7kg TC4-22.2kg TC5-20.3kg) StJ=95kg (StJ1-20.2kg StJ2-22.9kg StJ3-22.1kg StJ4-20.5kg). This will mean the strike is a bit slower.  
29 May 2014 [11:00:00]-3GLITCH winding, thanks to Hunter Spink, David Vasak and Baskaran Sripathmanathan - followed by installation of new hangers for the weights - thanks to Graham Newman. This should give a couple of hours extra time between windings. Will find out next week.  
21 May 2014 [22:00:00]-3GLITCH French winders from Artline, Alice Doyard, Pierre Oscar Levy, Mathieu Pansard Weather logger still out of action  
17 May 2014 [22:32:35]-3Apologies that recent data is not showing. It is being collected, so you will see it all soon!  
14 May 2014 [21:00:00]-3winding thanks to Sue Edwards (grand daughter of Mr Edwards, Head Porter in the 1960s), Lynn Clift and Gary Clift.  
08 May 2014 [09:00:00]-3GLITCH Winding thanks to Jessi Lloyd @skimbleshanks - and we also measured up for new weight hangers to get an extra 4 hours running per week. Great! Weather logger still out of action  
30 Apr 2014 [23:00:00]-3GLITCH winding by Helenka Prochazka and Martin Popiel, weather station still out of action  
24 Apr 2014 [18:00:00]-3GLITCH winding while Rick Lupton sets up new computer and trial run of new data logging using stereo microphone input. Weather logger still out of action  
19 Apr 2014 [11:00:00]+0Easter Saturday winders: Marianne Strauss, Ben Strauss, Anne Strauss, Margaret Waring, Kate Hanke, Tom Hanke, Daniel Hanke, Jo Hanke, Barbara Litvine, Alexis Litvine, Laura Litvine, Samuel Litvine, Jorge Grigoleit, Rosie Lintott, Julianne Pigott, Alexandra Sault  
14 Apr 2014 [21:01:40]+0ADJUST: +300 ms/day to 39800  
14 Apr 2014 [21:00:00]+0found the computer dead due to power surge earlier in the day. Did a topup wind with Ben Moss @B_R_Moss, after seeing the amazing ISS passby.  
14 Apr 2014 [13:00:00]+0GLITCH Brownout, and the computer has died. No data for a while....  
13 Apr 2014 [15:08:15]+0 Hector Senior, Elishna ODonovan, Glencora Senior, Elizabeth Senior and Imre Leader all wound very deftly - and we corrected the quarters that were out of sync.  
09 Apr 2014 [14:51:00]+0winding by Alessendro Cabboi, Alice Cicirello (>2*pi) and Hilary Costello - many thanks!  
02 Apr 2014 [15:40:20]+0ADJUST: -270 ms/day to 39500 and a top-up wind assisted by Rachel Greene, the new College chaplain  
01 Apr 2014 [13:45:00]+0I have hung a white sheet in the window to diffuse the sunlight that shines strongly onto the pendulum and mechanism in the afternoons. I hope this will reduce the extremes of temperature and will calm down the fluctuations in going. Also did some winding.  
30 Mar 2014 [00:02:00]+0ADJUST: -30 ms/day to 39770, clock change for summer time and winding assisted by Anne Bahnweg, Augustine Mzumara @ThisIsGus and Christopher Hicks - big decision to set the clock for the next seven months. Follow it on @clockkeeper  
28 Mar 2014 [15:41:38]+0ADJUST: -5600 ms/day to 39800 followed by a restart of the computer and updating the National Instruments drivers. A bit of a bother. Would rather set this computer up to use the sound card.  
28 Mar 2014 [13:56:40]+0 Here is a good check that adding the 5000ms/day weight does what it says, speeds the clock up by 5000 ms per day [link] and given that all the weights are scaled in proportion to mass the set we have looks pretty good  
28 Mar 2014 [12:20:00]+0ADJUST: +5000 ms/day to 45400 in readiness for clock change tomorrow night, I want to start the new season off near zero so that we can test the barometric compensator.  
24 Mar 2014 [20:00:00]+0ADJUST: -300 ms/day to 40400  
24 Mar 2014 [19:55:00]+0Twenty cubs did the winding tonight! Thanks to 12th Cambridge Cubs and their leaders. Cubs were Jude, Rebekah, Benji, Harry, Chiara, Eleanor, Timoni, Tomas, Lucas, Alex, Gregor, Henry, Jamie, Bill, Rory, Tom, Johnny, Oliver, Reith, Archie with leaders Jane, Mark and Arusha  
24 Mar 2014 [09:51:06]+0ADJUST: 4900 ms/day to 40700 after installation of further weights to the barometric compensator. 240g was added to each side, totalling 480g added. This should improve the accuracy of compensation. We shall see ...  
17 Mar 2014 [10:01:05]+0winders: @justinkohsayshi (Justin Koh), Sally Rowland, Elizabeth Cliffe, ann worley, Dan Safka, Zhi Hao Kok, kaif muhammad borhan tan  
10 Mar 2014 [12:17:12]+0Thanks to Frank Barker for help with winding today.  
03 Mar 2014 [23:29:38]+0Fun winding with suitable refreshments - Hamish Drewry, John Byrne, Ben Moss @B_R_Moss, Jessi Lloyd @Engineer_cat, Dan Safka, Filip Murar  
24 Feb 2014 [23:08:55]+0Winding tonight by a gaggle of mostly Mathmos, Mary Fortune, Sam Tickle, Sean Moss, Alex Chamolly, David Mestel, Oliver Feng, Andrew Carlotti, Ben Barrett  
17 Feb 2014 [22:43:57]+0Winding by Amy Hewer @Ms_AmyH and Alice Jones @AEMJ from BBC One Show who spring up everywhere, slinking about the College  
15 Feb 2014 [15:30:00]+0Great winding from Carl Rutti  
08 Feb 2014 [16:00:00]+0 Another delegation of the TEA to see the clock including Michael Gregory, Kadi Liis Saar, Nicole Weckman and Seena Rejal. The door to the roof was opened, very windy. This caused a huge glitch in the going.  
08 Feb 2014 [12:00:00]+0winding by the Trinity Engineers Association - along with a small correction between the hands (which were 21s ahead) and the pendulum.  
03 Feb 2014 [18:00:00]+0Ellen Sullivan, Scott Moffat and Hilary Costello did the winding. Enthusiastically! The hands of the clock have ended up 21 seconds ahead. Will be corrected on Saturday.  
28 Jan 2014 [15:45:00]+0winding, and fixing quarters that were stuck  
25 Jan 2014 [18:00:00]+0Thanks to Rick Lupton for winding. Curiously the Quarters had stopped by 3.45pm - not sure why...  
18 Jan 2014 [12:32:16]+0Trinity/Magdalene Engineers winding today Bradley Bull and Fergus Riche - thanks!  
11 Jan 2014 [12:24:00]+0Michael Burn (daughter is Fran Burn of TC choir) wound the clock he is 72 today, very interested in clocks! Apprentice to Rolex watches, then became a proper HND engineer! Rings at St Mary le Tower in Ipswich - they have a ring of 12.  
06 Jan 2014 [12:00:00]+0GCR = 44.5s at noon - on upper layer  
04 Jan 2014 [12:22:18]+0winding - first of the New Year! Paola Pellegrini, Andrea Pertoldeo @Pertoldeo and Ruth Pellegrini.  
02 Jan 2014 [14:55:40]+0ADJUST: -200 ms/day to 35800  
31 Dec 2013 [18:10:25]+0Last wind for 2013 done by Alexander Lewis @ATL_YM , Christina Lewis, Zhanna Lewis and Tom Lewis @cambwineblogger - the clock is all ready for 2014 now!  
24 Dec 2013 [16:22:00]+0thanks to Mark Rainer for winding on xmas eve  
19 Dec 2013 [18:17:04]+0winding done - check data 21/7/11 to 18/4/12 files like clock2012-03-25.txt and weather2012-03-25.txt  
12 Dec 2013 [12:00:00]+0winders from DVRO: Andrew McKay, David Hawes, Chris Nash and Hilary Costello. All keen!  
12 Dec 2013 [11:58:20]+0 -wind before : | 1| 2| 3| 4| 5| 6| 7| 8| 9|10|11|12|
-stops during: |10|10|11|11|11|12|12| 2| 5| 6| 8| 9|
assumes stops 52 strikes beyond 7 days (7 days = 1092 strikes)  
05 Dec 2013 [08:57:05]+0winders First-year engineers before their Mechanics supervision, Zoscha Partos @zoschapartos and Christopher Parmenter  
28 Nov 2013 [08:30:02]+0Richard de Crespigny (Qantas pilot) and Alexander de Crespigny (Mechatronic engineer) did a great job winding  
24 Nov 2013 [12:07:42]+0winders today Filip Gokstorp, Simon Gokstorp, Asa Gokstorp, Mats Gokstorp, Sue Budd, Chris Budd, Isabel Adomako Young -  
17 Nov 2013 [12:21:57]+0top-up wind by Newnham engineers Aurelia Hibbert @AureliaFortune , Amy Livingstone and Jamie Hooper @paedocapybara - doing a Dambusters and Colditz showing tonight!  
16 Nov 2013 [14:05:00]+0Winding today by Jaana Wilkinson, Elena Loche, Alice Cicirello, Rick Enns and Hilary Costello - many thanks!  
15 Nov 2013 [10:45:00]+0so what happened at 10.45am on 15 November to cause the clock to go into a decline? There is no obvious change in temperature or pressure or humidity, and the swing amplitude has not changed ...  
12 Nov 2013 [13:07:07]+0Katy Cherry @missmoomins did a good job winding today  
09 Nov 2013 [12:08:51]+0Cassandra Pope @cassiekp , Claude Grewal-Sultze, Hannah Critchlow @nakedscientistss and Kate Hamble @katehamble did winding on this wet and grimy day  
07 Nov 2013 [11:19:09]+0Sue Marchant did a top-up wind this morning - loves machinery!  
05 Nov 2013 [21:40:00]+0Just for fun. slowed the clock down for a few minutes - by 3000ms/day <[link]>  
05 Nov 2013 [21:35:41]+0winders Carol Black, Kevin Sim, David Rueda and Chris Morley - all very expert!  
02 Nov 2013 [12:00:00]+0Winding was done today at noon by Pieter Coulier on his last day in Cambridge with the help of Kevin Crooks, Francesco Battocchio, and Elke Deckers  
27 Oct 2013 [21:51:49]+0I now have a list of the friends: a substantial team comprised of physicists, engineers and mathematicians! Mike Vella, Matt Henderson, Dave Saxton, Anton Isopoussu and Sam Rabin.  
26 Oct 2013 [23:00:00]+0GLITCH clock change, thanks to Hilary Costello and friends (see list later). It is great to see the pendulum amplutude decay [link] exactly as theory predicts [link]  
23 Oct 2013 [14:00:00]+0Thanks to Rick Lupton for getting the computer going again (very relieved, it looked pretty bad when he stopped it yesterday) I am no expert in Linux (OpenSuse) so I need clever people to be involved...  
23 Oct 2013 [07:10:00]+0removed the pigeon wire for maintenance - ie making a stronger one (bloody eavy, em pidgins!) Great fun going up on the cherry picker  
22 Oct 2013 [17:05:18]+0Computer restart - unsuccessful! No data logging until it is fixed - something to do with NI drivers ...  
22 Oct 2013 [16:06:40]+0winding by Keeret Riat and David Harber - enthusiastic!  
19 Oct 2013 [13:48:09]+0Winders Eric Freyfogle, Jane Freyfogle from Illinois and Kevin Gray, Dean of College on this the day of the Great Court Run  
17 Oct 2013 [10:05:00]+0corrected the glitch - the clock was 93 seconds slow ... needs to be right for Saturday, the Great Court Run  
15 Oct 2013 [12:20:00]+0Winders (and glitch makers!) Len Howlett and Mark Rainer  
08 Oct 2013 [11:14:19]+0Winding by Chris Rosier - hot work, eh?!  
08 Oct 2013 [11:00:00]+0GCR = 45.9s at noon - on lower layer  
06 Oct 2013 [23:00:00]+0GCR = 45.6s at midnight - on lower layer  
01 Oct 2013 [12:34:24]+0ADJUST: 400 ms/day to 36000  
01 Oct 2013 [12:32:40]+0Winders from the Catering Department - Jessica Duck, Sarah Walsh, Les Fry (unlikely to fall asleep this afternoon, I hope) and Pieter Coulier (the jelly man)  
24 Sep 2013 [11:30:35]+0Great winding by Matthew Henderson, ably supervised by Hilary Costello  
17 Sep 2013 [13:00:00]+0Quarter bells adjusted (thanks to Graham Newman) so now they go Dinggg Donggg instead of dng Donggg (like an old man with a limp) Also winding done.  
16 Sep 2013 [08:40:00]+0data uploading is working again. Some adjustments to the FTP service on the main website were needed.  
14 Sep 2013 [21:00:00]+0computer checked (data not uploading) all running OK - perhaps a change on the central server? clock wound  
08 Sep 2013 [12:00:00]+0Good to see Maarten Beckers back, winding under the watchful eye of Pieter Coulier...  
06 Sep 2013 [12:15:08]+0Winding thanks to John Lonsdale and Moya Lonsdale - enthusiastically interested in the history, which is fascinating I admit  
06 Sep 2013 [11:00:00]+0GCR = 44.6s on lower layer  
30 Aug 2013 [22:40:36]+0Pretty remarkable that for more than 2 months over the summer there has been barely half a second drift [link]  
30 Aug 2013 [12:00:00]+0thanks to winders Alice Cicirello, Pieter Coulier and Hilary Costello - very multinational! Alice managed 4-pi worth of winding  
23 Aug 2013 [12:01:57]+0Great day for Lucy Beharrell and Will Beharrell on their 9th wedding anniversary. Anyone listening would have heard the clock strike 9 - at 1pm! Thanks for winding too .  
22 Aug 2013 [11:06:45]+0GCR=43.9s (midnight last night was 43.8s) - looking good. Note that speed change due to diameter change on second layer is sqrt(140mm/135mm) = 1.019 (first layer diameter = 135mm, wire diameter = 5mm, drag goes as speed squared) so we expect perhaps GCR=44.7s later on as the weights descend. Air density effects, summer vs winter, max density on a dry cold day is 1.27 and min density on a hot humid day 1.14 is see [link] so the range is sqrt(1.27/1.14)=1.055 and that is about a 2.4s range from extremes.  
21 Aug 2013 [18:37:36]+0 full wind as well, Imogen Newman watching on ... holding the tubes.  
21 Aug 2013 [18:37:03]+0Note cheese weights: TC1-20.5kg TC2-22.7kg TC3-22.7kg TC4-22.2kg TC5-20.3kg + two new ones 21.5kg + 21.5kg StJ1-20.2kg StJ2-22.9kg StJ3-22.1kg StJ4-20.5kg + two new ones 21.1kg + 21.7kg. Extra weights are thick-2.4kg and thin-0.7kg  
21 Aug 2013 [18:33:42]+0work with Graham Newman today slowing down the strike - TC strike 159kg to 128kg (5 original cheeses + 5 thicks), StJ strike 137kg to 110kg (4 original cheeses + 5 thicks + 5 thins) Let us see what happens.  
17 Aug 2013 [11:11:32]+0Jonnie Hunt, Mael Thomas, Sandy Hunt, Qian Wang did a great job winding. Noon going+Strike time GCR = 40.6s - a bit too fast (note GCR stands for Great Court Run - historically it is around 44s, but changes made in 2007 need to be put right)).  
11 Aug 2013 [11:24:27]+0Monique Degimbe, Albert Renders, Annick Renders, Jean-Pierre Coulier hebben de klok opgewonden tijdens hun bezoek aan Pieter! (full marks to anyone who can read that...)  
07 Aug 2013 [14:13:52]+0the warm weather has made the first bell of the quarters not sound. We fixed that by a bit of deft metal bending - as I say, always use the right tool for the job (my feet).  
07 Aug 2013 [14:12:05]+0doing a bit of recording for The Naked Scientists @nakedscientists with Dominic Ford @dcf21 - a good excuse to do some winding! By the way, what is the terminal velocity of a penny?  
04 Aug 2013 [11:59:15]+0Thanks Hilary Costello for winding - good Sunday exercise!  
28 Jul 2013 [13:05:14]+0Winding thanks Pieter Coulier, though jet lagged.  
21 Jul 2013 [11:17:58]+0Winders today Matilda Sleigh, Elliott Sleigh, Sarah Lavelle, James Sleigh - hot work!  
14 Jul 2013 [13:00:01]+0Thanks to Rick Lupton for winding - even hotter. Fantastic temperature compensation in this rising heat [link]  
07 Jul 2013 [11:05:39]+0top up wind par Lucie Delpeuch et Jonnie Hunt - hot work  
06 Jul 2013 [11:17:39]+0Great that Pieter Coulier has learnt the ropes and is now on my list of winders!  
29 Jun 2013 [10:36:38]+0 winding after Sam Coxs graduation yesterday. Also with Steve Cox, Penny Cox and Patrick Cox - who will work our a Raspberry Pi app for me!  
26 Jun 2013 [09:24:38]+0also winding (and playing BOGIES) Anna Towriss, Ute Towriss, Ed Few, Paul Joyce, Rupert Gatti Caz King  
26 Jun 2013 [09:24:37]+0The first game of BOGIES ever in the clock tower! benjamin rose, mossy forbes, jennifer leek, hester stewart, joe evans Great fun!  
26 Jun 2013 [09:24:36]+0ADJUST: +300 ms/day to 35600  
24 Jun 2013 [21:17:06]+0SPICE meeting today, so winders were James Talbot, Matt Causier, Clare Causier, Ming Jin Tang and others Andy Elson, Simon Driscoll, Matt Watson, Tanya Gray, Hilary Costello, Scott Osprey, Don Grainger, Rob McPheat, Tony Cox,James McGregor, Francis Pope, Dan Peters  
23 Jun 2013 [17:17:17]+0ADJUST: -500 ms/day to 35300 - quite why this acceleration has happened is a puzzle.  
18 Jun 2013 [22:13:52]+0Rag winner Bethany Craik and her friends, Thomas Rychlik, Jake Lishman, Guus Berkelmans, Jamie Balcombe, John Howe, Cameron Ford, Matthew Varnam. And MathsJammers @MathsJam, Interesting to see this old technology working so well. John Shanks. Matthew Harbage, Edward Cree.  
16 Jun 2013 [16:27:43]+0Enjoying the behind the clock tour! @katelamble @joemyerscough @katlay @kayaburgess - a good winding team.  
09 Jun 2013 [19:08:58]+0Michael Strasser @pharsicle, Lou Strasser, Jill Graham enthusiastic winders after two evensongs and a trip up Great St Mary, now off to see singing on the river ...  
06 Jun 2013 [15:12:50]+0ADJUST: -250 ms/day to 35800  
06 Jun 2013 [15:12:49]+0James Appleton @jamesappleton86 Laurie Cuthbert @trinity1546 and Mary Priddey taking photos!  
02 Jun 2013 [19:10:00]+0top-up wind. Unjamming of the quarters (over-wound on Friday - I did not think it was possible to over-wind!)  
31 May 2013 [11:00:00]+0winding thanks to Hilary Costello, Danielle Wong and Chris Lloyd from Canada.  
25 May 2013 [15:03:59]+0winding ably assisted by Lydia Marston-Blaauw and cousin Christopher Hunt, visiting from Vancouver BC. Lydia found one extra step that she did not think was there!  
19 May 2013 [09:57:50]+0winding by Piotr Grudzien, Danielle Broadfoot, Raphael Lemahieu, Marek Romanowicz @MarekRomanowicz, Ben Moss @B_R_Moss - makes it easy for me!  
12 May 2013 [10:07:38]+0a top-up wind by Torrin MacKay and David MacKay - all on a Sunday morning  
10 May 2013 [09:13:34]+0winding by Svetlana Paterson - who is catalogueing (sp?) the old male-voice music up here in the tower.  
03 May 2013 [08:28:37]+0ADJUST: +150 ms/day to 36050  
03 May 2013 [08:26:40]+0Help with winding by Alistair Potts - he did the heavy one!  
28 Apr 2013 [17:00:00]+0winders @FreddieTapner and Ben Moss @B_R_Moss - both engineers, not revising for their exams!  
26 Apr 2013 [06:45:00]+0Is this another bloody pigeon standing on the minute hand at 6.45am this morning when the hand is horizontal? [link]  
21 Apr 2013 [17:00:00]+0winding by Ron Holding and Andrew Holding - I hardly had to do anything! We removed the fan and thermometers from the pendulum chute - hence the disturbance to the pendulum.  
14 Apr 2013 [16:00:00]+0ADJUST: -500 ms/day to 35900, thanks to Hilary Costello - and winders Rick Enns and Maarten Willems from Leuven.  
08 Apr 2013 [16:24:17]+0winders just now Aryani Sumoondur and Urs Rauwald - saves me all the effort!15846305881584630588  
01 Apr 2013 [16:30:00]+0Winders: Chris Scott on his 60th birthday (wound the lightest weight!), son Alex Scott, Cat Hobart and Mark Claydon - all ably instructed and guided by Rick Lupton and observed by Sarah Claydon, nee Scott. The clock will need winding again next Monday - any volunteers?  
31 Mar 2013 [00:05:00]+0GLITCH thanks to Rick Lupton for doing the clock change.  
26 Mar 2013 [09:15:00]+0ADJUST: +1000 ms/day to 36400 further adjustment required after last night meddling about.  
26 Mar 2013 [09:10:00]+0The fan (sucking the warm air up from below) does not seem to be doing anything. The air is still warmer down at the bottom (like a stubborn temperature inversion). So I have switched it around to blow cold air down. Maybe that will maintain a downward air flow - we will see.  
26 Mar 2013 [01:00:00]+0What happened here? Amplitude dropped and going fell - suggests the pendulum got longer.  
25 Mar 2013 [19:18:20]+0ADJUST: +1000 ms/day to 35400 after the restart and knocking the pendulum about  
25 Mar 2013 [19:15:10]+0With the help of Chris Nickolaus (who did the winding) we installed a fan to even out the temperature in the pendulum chute. Thanks to Mark Rainer for making up the fan (using an old vacuum cleaner tube). Air blowing upwards (sucking warm air up)Let us see if it makes a diference!  
18 Mar 2013 [22:06:33]+0ADJUST: +400 ms/day to 34400 - fine tuning after the activity over the weekend  
17 Mar 2013 [10:25:01]+0ADJUST: +3500 ms/day to 34000 which is a big change required after last night and the brutal hacking (during which the pendulum was stopped and jolted about)  
17 Mar 2013 [01:45:00]+0Winders and witnesses - a Troy of Helens: Helen Arney @helenarney, Helen Scales, Helen Czerski @helenczerski, and the non-Helens: Jasmin Chana, Michael Conterio @Sci_Cam, Matt Parker @standupmaths  
17 Mar 2013 [01:41:55]+0GLITCH Major changes tonight - opened up the pendulum chamber with a saw (!) to improve air flow. Hope it will work.  
10 Mar 2013 [14:28:21]+0So here is a theory: If the temperature down at the pendulum bob is high then the temperature compensation is not dealing with change in air density (buoyancy). This effect is +30ms/day per degC so a 4C warmer bottom would give rise to a +120ms/day on going. This is not far from observed - note that the clock slower down overnight as the pendulum chute cooled down. Maybe I need to open up the chute to contrive that cool air can get down to the bottom. I might do that next weekend....  
10 Mar 2013 [12:12:42]+0pendulum temperatures [15.0 14.3 14.3 11.1 9.9] and note that the minima overnight were [10.9 11.0 11.0 10.9 9.8] so it looks as if the pendulum bottom half cools down a lot overnight.  
09 Mar 2013 [13:00:00]+0ADJUST: -300 ms/day to 30500  
09 Mar 2013 [12:00:00]+0today installed four thermocouples to measure the temperature down the pendulum shaft. Temperatures now are [15.7 15.2 15.0 11.9 11.9] in degC from bottom to top. the last reading is in the clock chamber . Note that the bottom three readings are where the pendulum swings in the room below - it is clearly warmer there.  
04 Mar 2013 [23:03:43]+0Rob Dwyer-Joyce paid for his dinner by winding the clock tonight - well deserved, said the clock!  
26 Feb 2013 [23:49:41]+0Conductors - NOT organists! - Alexandra Schwinn, brilliant, Yasmina Sabbah, Zvika Vogel, Sam Allchurch, Stephen Layton, Curtis Kettler - and heaven forbid - did it strike thirteen?  
26 Feb 2013 [17:08:14]+0Jack Stilgoe did the two heaviest winds (!) thanks for the assistance  
20 Feb 2013 [14:14:55]+0Igor Wowk worked up a sweat today! (well, ran out of breath at least) Many thanks.  
09 Feb 2013 [16:16:14]+0ADJUST: +400 ms/day to 30800  
05 Feb 2013 [21:16:40]+0Strange glitches in going related to temperature changes, perhaps stiction in the temperature compensated pendulum? It has a zinc tube core around a steel rod and perhaps the zinc contracts in cold weather and grips the rod. I will probably have to take the pendulum apart at the time change next month.  
05 Feb 2013 [19:43:29]+0LIVE on Sci_Cam - Watch the show live from Trinity College Clock Tower with Michael Conterio @hughhunt now! [link]  
03 Feb 2013 [11:55:13]+0winding today with the help of Roger Kelly - good to have another engineer at hand!  
01 Feb 2013 [00:26:22]+0Great to be up with Emma. And Jim (Beam). And expert winders Jess Nyahoe (who was impressed by my clock), Tony Hoskins (less impressed), Ben Watkins. Pat Willis (roof far too cold), Graham Jones (glass always fuller than expected)  
25 Jan 2013 [23:14:13]+0Wonderful winders, with the help of Jim Beam, are Andrew Pontzen, Helen Keen, Andrew Holding and Timandra Harkness.  
25 Jan 2013 [23:03:20]+0ADJUST: +1000 ms/day to 30400 - it seems the weather has got warm again! Woo  
24 Jan 2013 [22:10:00]+0not sure what the collective noun for a bunch of haematologists is, but they were excellent winders tonight!  
19 Jan 2013 [18:03:52]+0ADJUST: -1000 ms/day to 29400 Graham Steed helped me wind (not bad after several jars at the Cambridge winter beer fest), and adjust - it seems that this cold weather has accelerated the clock rather...  
18 Jan 2013 [00:00:00]+0a bunch of winders, all engineers - after their conference. A pity Emma Watson was not there. Bogies.  
13 Jan 2013 [12:40:00]+0winders David Thorp and Amanda Thorp with help from their sons William Thorp and Oliver Thorp - many thanks!  
10 Jan 2013 [11:12:09]+0great Aussie winders: alice tilson, charlotte fels, eleanor fels, Harriet Fels, Maddie Fels, Stephanie Loyola Fels, Michael Ignatious Fels of Flemington, Rebecca Fels, Emma Fels, Nick Fels, Robert Fels, Boyd Hilton  
07 Jan 2013 [00:59:22]+0winders tonight ... Matthew Turner, Ivan Hare, Kate Mason, Will Pullen assisted by Caroline Fletcher, Isaac Zailer, Sophie Hare, Dmitri Levitin  
13 Dec 2012 [13:55:00]+0Just like the Camberwick Green musical box the clock was exquisitly wound by Pam Daish and Lynn Clift. No sign of bogies this time... But we did correct by -15 seconds for the apparent pigeon-on-the-hands events this morning and yesterday.  
13 Dec 2012 [07:45:00]+0another pigeon?  
12 Dec 2012 [09:15:00]+0was this a reverse pigeon event? The clock was 10 seconds slow later in the dat...  
06 Dec 2012 [13:18:10]+0Winders today, Dominic Wood, Richard McCourt, Miles Harris and Patrcik McKeeman - all jolly good fun (and a lot of bogies)  
02 Dec 2012 [14:00:00]+0Thanks also to winders David Molony and Claire Jackson  
29 Nov 2012 [08:57:30]+0Restart after clock stopped (forgot to wind it!) Thanks for winding help from Sophia Sosnina and Christina Gladkova (very energetic 4-handed!)  
28 Nov 2012 [08:30:00]+0Thanks to Takashi Tomura, Chris Warrington and Karen Wells (Trinity Garden staff) for organizing the cherry picker to go up to see the anti-pigeon wire on the minute hand. All seems OK, though the wire was a bit bent - clearly there have been visitors. Thanks to the gardeners for clearing out the pigeon shit from behind the dial, and finding at least one egg!  
21 Nov 2012 [13:11:38]+0ADJUST: +150 ms/day to 30400 - Thanks to Graham Newman for his annual grease and oil change. And also for doing the clock maintenance.  
19 Nov 2012 [20:05:24]+0Great to have 12th Cambridge Cubs watching the winding, and thanks to Jeebie and King Louis for help with the same.  
14 Nov 2012 [12:09:30]+0help with winding today from David Vasak, thanks!  
12 Nov 2012 [08:35:00]+04-minute correction of pigeon event. Inspection of the clock dial revealed no damage to the pigeon wire, so i) was it a pigeon? ii) if so then how did it manage to avoid the wire? iii) might it have been some other form of vermin????  
11 Nov 2012 [23:45:00]+0A midnight-pigeon event? - clock stopped for 4 minutes when the minute hand was horizontal. trin-hosts.trin.cam.ac.uk/clock/?menu_option=data&from=11/11/2012&to=11/11/2012&xmin=22&xmax=24&skip=1&channel=amp Perhaps a rat? Will need to check the anti-pigeon wire.  
10 Nov 2012 [11:00:00]+0ADJUST: -250 ms/day to 30250. Thanks to Ramses Verachtert for help with winding  
03 Nov 2012 [17:00:00]+0winding thanks to Athena Tan and Hilary Costello, who noted the new Sugru winding marks (not blue tack!)  
28 Oct 2012 [09:00:00]+0ADJUST: -2400 ms/day to 30500, adjustment required after refit of barometric compensator  
28 Oct 2012 [00:15:00]+0restart - after fiddling around with the barometric compensator, installing two new aneroids. We will see if there is a difference....  
27 Oct 2012 [23:05:00]-1GLITCH clock stopped for end of Summer Time, witnessed by Krisztina Szilagy, Michael Koehl, Heonik Kwon, Florence Privett and Rick Lupton who is helping with the data acquisition system and Mark Rainer who is helping with the barometric compensator and UPS  
09 Oct 2012 [11:00:00]-1Thanks to Roderick Blevins for help with winding  
01 Oct 2012 [20:00:00]-1rather a large (drunken? no, surely not!) bunch of freshers came up to see the clock. The glitch is presumably due to air density change affecting the pendulum buoyancy. Could this be? What is the partial pressure of ethanol in air?  
28 Sep 2012 [11:35:40]-1There must have been a power failure because the PC was not running when I came in just now. Restart successful. Must fix the uninterruptable power supply.  
28 Sep 2012 [11:15:00]-1Useful observation: the strike (both Trinity and St Johns) survived 10, 11 and 12 beyond the 7-day winding, ie 10+11+12=33 strikes. This means that the usual afternoon winding time would be satisfactory up to just before 8pm because 1+2+3+4+5+6+7=28. By this time however the going will have run out of juice.  
28 Sep 2012 [11:05:00]-1Thanks to visiting winders: David Sloan, Adam Caulton, Brian Pitts, Jeremy Butterfield (the last only did the light-weight job)  
21 Sep 2012 [08:35:00]+1Sophie Hunt, my niece from Melbourne, did a great job winding today. Muscle building!  
14 Sep 2012 [09:10:46]+1winding today from the bowels of the kitchens!! Chris Appleby and Malcolm Winter were excellent - saves me building up a sweat.  
31 Aug 2012 [12:02:03]+1Great to have winding help today from Daniel Flack, Anne Bahnweg, Lucy Oswald, Len Howlett - all very expert!  
30 Aug 2012 [14:15:00]+1visit to clock with Robyn Williams, presenter of The Science Show, ABC Radio National  
24 Aug 2012 [13:00:00]+1Excellent winding from Robin Sharp and Greg Winter  
01 Aug 2012 [13:00:00]+1Winders today were Rosie Spear, Alexander Wedgbury, Kateri Spear and Len Howlett - Mark Rainer just stood by and watched!  
27 Jul 2012 [18:00:00]+1Curious that the clock shifted to its new fast-going regime at the time of winding on Thursday. Nothing was touched, other than to open the cabinet and wind. I am increasingly convinced that changing air currents up the pendulum chute are the cause. What I need now is a means of measuring micro-air-flow.  
26 Jul 2012 [18:00:00]+1many thanks to winders from the Cambridge International String Academy Summer Festival Concerts 2012 - very enthusiastic!  
14 Jul 2012 [14:30:00]+1Thanks to Rick Enns, Gabrielle Enns, John Enns and Hilary Costello for winding so expertly.  
08 Jul 2012 [09:40:44]+1Great to have Andres Romero from Bahia Blanca and Roger McClure - who did all the hard work winding!  
01 Jul 2012 [15:12:06]+1Nandi Chinner and Elkie Wootton (niece and honorary niece of Graham Chiiner) - all three came up for a visit and a wind. Thank you!  
01 Jul 2012 [13:10:00]+1visitors to the clock: Iona Goddard, Barney Goddard, Joel Tutt, Finlay Low, Luise Grosche, Moshe Peck, Jacob Peck, Armin Grosche, Rachel Peck, Emma Widdis, Jason Goddard, Hamish Low, Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche, Malte Grosche, Sanam Moshar, Joel Peck  
01 Jul 2012 [13:06:40]+1more power failure problems, computer restarted.  
01 Jul 2012 [00:00:00]+1Dammit! A leap second. I do not think my pendulum cares a gnats tock about this!  
30 Jun 2012 [09:42:20]+0great to have visitors Katherine Gray, Lesley Gray, George Knight, Ivy Knight - top-up wind, so I do not have to do it until next weekend! We did a little experiment, removing 1200ms/day for a few minutes. That is what happens when you are having fun!  
29 Jun 2012 [13:38:22]+0computer restart after power failure yesterday.  
28 Jun 2012 [13:43:20]+0power failure caused computer to stop logging. Of course the 102-year-old clock was unaffected!  
19 May 2012 [07:15:00]+0restart - thanks Anson!  
19 May 2012 [03:00:00]+0Dammit, I forgot to wind the clock! Full marks to Anson Cheung for spotting this...  
05 May 2012 [12:07:00]+0Thanks to winders Viv Williams (who did the heavy one) Cathy Aynsley, Miki Booth, Adam Booth and Mark Rainer  
02 May 2012 [17:00:00]+0ADJUST: +200ms/day to 32900 thanks to Mark Rainer for this, and for winding  
26 Apr 2012 [23:00:00]+0ADJUST: +200ms/day to 32700  
24 Apr 2012 [16:00:00]+0ADJUST: -500ms/day to 32500 Thanks to Ted Popper and Annie Kingsbury (Popper) for help with a top-up wind.  
22 Apr 2012 [11:30:00]+0Anyone noticing a glitch here - well, I was demonstrating the effect of adding a 1s/day weight.  
22 Apr 2012 [11:00:00]+0Rather a large delegation today - Jeremy Fairbank and his co-lunchers, plus Philip Hardie and his guests. Clock now wound. We seem to be on a Sunday routine. Back to Tuesdays this week, I think.  
20 Apr 2012 [16:00:00]+0Great to have Joe and Betty Davidson visiting - and topping up the heavy quarters weight - less to do next time!  
19 Apr 2012 [15:30:00]+0The system is up and running again - not exactly in the best way. We have resurrected the old PC and will now try to repair the new one. At least data is streaming again now. many thanks to Rick Lupton for his help today.  
15 Apr 2012 [12:00:00]+0ADJUST: -100ms/day to 33000, winding with help from Simon Wallfisch, Sandy Hunt and Jonathan Hunt  
12 Apr 2012 [10:28:41]+0Guys, would you like to come into the IT Department for a chat. We are not an experts in this field, but we might be able to help (we have friends). We are in Bishops Hostel staircase D.  
08 Apr 2012 [19:59:54]+0Apologies that the data logging system is still down. Anson and Tim have a solution in hand - it just requires the right few hours to do it. Many thanks, you two. Meanwhile the clock is still fine - it is about 1.2 seconds fast.  
01 Apr 2012 [16:07:25]+0ADJUST: -100ms/day to 33100 and very kindly helped with winding by Juliet Babinsky, Carolyn Babinsky, Holger Babinsky, Giovanni Pellegrini and Ruth Pellegrini all of whom are stronger than they thought!  
01 Apr 2012 [06:30:58]+0So where are we: Tim has now also spent a lot of time on this. He says: The short story is that the National Instruments drivers are not working with the new kernel version after the upgrade. The longer story: the drivers check the kernel version by looking at its second digit. With the recent change in numbering, from 2.6.whatever to 3.n1.n2 (without actually a massive leap in the code) this is not particularly helpful. Anecdotal reports on the internet suggested the drivers should still work if these checks were removed. After a bit of work to disable them in the installation scripts, it almost installed. A change to the way locking is handled (linked to removal of the [Big Kernel Lock ], so I understand!) meant that a small change to the ioctl code was needed (which I did not really understand; it looked like an old callback is no longer allowed, and needed removing). Finally, everything compiled and the nikal kernel module loaded (with a memory allocation error in dmesg, but at least it appears to lsmod). Unfortunately, clocklogger then returns [libnipalu.so failed to initialize - Perhaps you need to run updateNIDrivers - Aborted ] So it looks like NI need to update their drivers. In the meantime, I am running out of ideas short of using an old kernel again (which would be annoying!).  
01 Apr 2012 [06:30:57]+0Anson has checked the disks - here is what he says: there were so corrupted inodes that come up as part of the e2fsck run in the root partition. The home directories seemed fine. There is no way of recovering easily the problems because I cannot see how the inodes correspond to actual files. So, I am going to upgrade the operating system tonight to either 11.4 or 12.1. This is a wise thing to do anyway given what we were using before 11.3 is out of support - and the original lost files harder to find.  
25 Mar 2012 [14:18:59]+0Ah. Apparently there was a huge power surge on 20 March at 01h30 - the same time as the PC crash. There is clearly some work to do here....  
25 Mar 2012 [13:45:00]+0Sorry, I have been away from Cambridge and have not had time to fix the problem. I think it is a NiDAQ driver problem because the output file says [DAQ Error]. Not very helpful! Tim, any ideas?  
25 Mar 2012 [13:00:00]+0winding help from Anna Gatti, Nico Gatti, Sofia Gatti, Alessandra Tosi, Rupert Gatti, Valentina Corsetti, Christopher Peacock and Dilan Mehmet - a really very helpful team!  
25 Mar 2012 [07:05:00]+0GLITCH Clock advanced for summer time  
20 Mar 2012 [17:00:00]+0ADJUST: -100ms/day to 33200 - maybe it has a mind of its own!  
20 Mar 2012 [01:30:00]+0Computer crash - under investigation  
13 Mar 2012 [14:00:00]+0ADJUST: +100ms/day to 33300 - thanks Mark.  
09 Mar 2012 [18:15:00]+0ADJUST: +2000ms/day to 33200 Tim very helpfully went back to regulate - by a huge 2s/day. Hmm, what has changed?  
08 Mar 2012 [20:45:00]+0GLITCH Tim gale very helpfully went to find out what was happening - found things in a bit of a mess, the cable had been pulled out of the weather station and had to be refitted. This meant stopping the pendulum (the weather station is down the pendulum chamber). Restart, hopefully it will settle down quickly. Teally not sure what caused all this - I suspect the Works Department had to move the computer to gain access to a cupboard, and I think they pulled out the USB cables, then put them back in again..  
07 Mar 2012 [11:15:00]+0Something happened here.  
03 Mar 2012 [15:00:00]+0ADJUST: +100ms/day to 31200  
28 Feb 2012 [12:16:40]+0ADJUST: -200ms/day to 31100 because I want to have the clock back at 0 for the clock change in March  
28 Feb 2012 [12:15:00]+0Great to have help from Sally Pettipher who is on a fitness drive for her coxing.  
21 Feb 2012 [22:10:00]+0Rosemary Richards and Jeremy James from Grantham GravityFields Festival helped with winding today - they now know what gravity is!  
21 Feb 2012 [21:50:00]+0poor PC has not had a rest since Occober 2011, needed a restart.  
07 Feb 2012 [15:09:14]+0A whole heap of helpers today ... Harry Clift, Eloise Hunt, Lynn Clift, Janet Procter - all very muscley!  
31 Jan 2012 [13:17:33]+0Jonas Coene helped with winding - thanks!  
24 Jan 2012 [13:13:50]+0Many thanks to Simon Raikes for throwing his weight around today!  
17 Jan 2012 [12:06:07]+0Winding helpers today: Madelaine Crush, Janice Chambers and Rob Hogan - many thanks!  
10 Jan 2012 [19:00:00]+0Not sure what caused this gap in data. The PC seems to be fine because weather data has been collected. Perhaps the GPS receiver was doing a software upgrade?  
10 Jan 2012 [16:58:46]+0Thanks Janar Davletov (from the Bursary) for help with winding!  
04 Jan 2012 [04:31:40]+0Barometric compensator: Why does the compensator appear to be working for rapid changes in pressure (ie over a few hours) eg [link] [link] but not for slow changes in pressure (over a few days) eg [link] [link] A real mystery. Perhaps there is a link between pressure and temperature, or maybe updraughts?  
03 Jan 2012 [17:25:00]+0Thanks to Alexander Hunt for helping with a wind - just in time!  
27 Dec 2011 [13:00:00]+0Winding excellently assisted by Giovanni Pellegrini, Isabella Pellegrini, Luca Pellegrini and Eloise Hunt  
29 Nov 2011 [18:00:00]+0ADJUST: +50ms/day to 31300 and a wind, thanks to John Fisher Burns, Andrew Testa and Benjamin Barrett for saving my efforts.  
13 Nov 2011 [15:30:00]+0top up winding - thanks to Bianca Sporea and Devon Griffiths for trying their arms!  
30 Oct 2011 [00:30:00]+0... thanks to Anson Cheung and friends Michael Koehl, Jean Ho, Charles Roddie, Claire Sladden, Nicholas Teh, Olivia Skilbeck, Kate Pfeffer, Marco Selvi, Susan Raich, Matthew Willetts and Lydia Reeves for staying up so late... must have been a chore!  
29 Oct 2011 [23:30:00]+0GLITCH clock change for end of Summer Time.  
25 Oct 2011 [13:15:00]+0ADJUST: +100ms/day to 31250, thanks to Anson Cheung for company, and for agreeing to effect the clock change this coming weekend.  
10 Oct 2011 [21:30:00]+0ADJUST: -150ms/day to 31150, observed by Hermann Hauser and Peter Davidson - both of whom seem to understand at least a little physics.  
01 Oct 2011 [14:30:00]+0I put a sunshield in the left part of the window so the pendulum is in full shade at all times - note the dip is no longer occurring,  
30 Sep 2011 [14:30:00]+0These dips in going are due to the sun shining on the top quarter of the pendulum. The outer steel expands rapidly, the inner zinc stays cool and does not compensate. Once the sun passes then the going returns to normal.  
29 Sep 2011 [14:30:00]+0see above, Re: dips  
28 Sep 2011 [14:30:00]+0see above, Re: dips  
27 Sep 2011 [14:30:00]+0see above, Re: dips  
25 Sep 2011 [16:45:00]+0ADJUST: +150ms/day to 31300, thanks to Christine Costello and Hugh Costello who managed not to drop any weights down the shaft.  
18 Sep 2011 [13:30:00]+0ADJUST: +150ms/day to 31150, thanks to Howard Tuck for his company, and to help with a bit of winding.  
26 Aug 2011 [14:10:00]+0ADJUST: +150ms/day to 31000, thanks Mark Rainer. Perhaps the right setting is somewhere in the middle...  
11 Aug 2011 [08:00:00]+0ADJUST: -150ms/day to 30850 - Hilary undoing her what she did 2 weeks ago. I think this is about the right setting, on average.  
03 Aug 2011 [18:30:00]+0a HUGE downpour occurred at about this time - the sky was like the sea. The GPS receiver (which already can only see half the sky from its view out the window) lost sight of satellites for a few minutes, hence our temporary loss of data.  
02 Aug 2011 [13:00:00]+0thanks to David Hughes for help with winding...  
30 Jul 2011 [17:00:00]+0The webcam is now working again, and it even has sound! Thanks very much to Tim Gale.  
26 Jul 2011 [13:30:00]+0ADJUST: +150ms/day to 31000 - thanks Hilary.  
20 Jul 2011 [12:00:00]+0GLITCH Today we installed a new PC - hopefully now capable of running the webcam properly (watch this space). It runs OpenSUSE (Linux) so many thanks in particular to Tim Gale for getting the installation all working, in particular the NI-DAQ card and drivers. Impressive that we only dropped a few minutes of data. Well done Tim! Thanks also to Anson Cheung for all his support and advice. We still need to get the cron job running for automatic upload to the website. In the meantime uploads will be manual and a bit sporadic.  
19 Jul 2011 [14:57:00]+0Many thanks to Sian Gardner for volunteering for a workout!  
12 Jul 2011 [12:00:00]+0Many thanks to Lucy Leckey, Richard Leckey, Peter Dennis and Sue Dennis for winding!  
10 Jul 2011 [13:50:00]+0Corrected clock that was 6 seconds fast - as displayed by the hands, ie hands ahead of the mechanism - no obvious explanation. Pigeons at quarter past now? I hope not! Great to see David Greagg - now he knows the difference between a clock and a chronophage pretending to be a clock ...  
28 Jun 2011 [21:50:00]+0bumped the pendulum while removing the plastic pipe from the pendulum chute (installed 19 Jan 2011) - not sure it is doing anything, and it looks ugly...  
26 Jun 2011 [13:00:00]+0ADJUST: +50 ms/day to 30850 (thanks Ellie)  
14 Jun 2011 [18:50:00]+0ADJUST: +200ms/day to 30800 and wound with help from Alek Haigh, Maya Haigh, Ellie Hunt, Anna Harrison, James Dixon, Esra Haigh, Stuart Haigh  
09 Jun 2011 [11:10:00]+0experiment with removing then adding 5000ms/day (to show Simon and Henrietta!)  
02 Jun 2011 [11:24:00]+0ADJUST: -150ms/day to 30600 - with the help of James Grime who is filming all of this for his youtube channel youtube.com/singingbanana  
24 May 2011 [17:00:00]+0ADJUST: -150ms/day to 30750, and help with winding from Andreas Michaelides and Srikanth Madabhushi  
18 May 2011 [20:50:00]+0SPICE visit: Chris Burgoyne, Hilary Costello, Tony Cox, Peter Davidson, Simon Driscoll, Pru Foster, Don Grainger, Jim Haywood, Hugh Hunt, James McGregor, Thao Do, Daniel Peters, Francis Pope, Chris Walton, Peter Braesicke, Alessio Bozzo, Matt Watson, Andy Elson, Emily Knott, Markus Kalberer - a good (and challenging) day had by all!  
13 May 2011 [15:03:00]+0small disturbance due to replacing the 2000+1000+1000+500+500 ms weights with a single 5000ms/day weight - witnessed by Geoff and Wendy Newton from Perth WA, and their daughter Kirsty Kuo. Not wanting to miss an opportuinity, I got them to do some winding!  
08 May 2011 [16:30:00]+0Visit by the AHS American Chapter, thanks to Hilary Costello for hosting. Note the glitch - visitors always cause disturbance, even horologists!  
01 May 2011 [18:15:00]+0ADJUST: -250ms/day to 30900 (dropped 200ms/day down the pendulum chute ... bound to happen one day)  
30 Apr 2011 [18:15:00]+0Barometric compensator seems to have worked pretty well recently [link] [link] as has the temperature compensation [link] [link] . There is a lot noise on these plots, pretty sure this is due to temperature gradients in the clock chamber because it seems to be worse when the sun is shining strongly through the windows and when the central heating is at its hottest in the room below.  
19 Apr 2011 [11:15:00]+0ADJUST: +100ms/day to 31150, thanks again Hilary. I have a far-fetched idea that going is proportional to long-term rate-of-change of temperature at -200ms/day per degC/day. This minor adjustment should help test it.  
16 Apr 2011 [13:00:00]+0Computer restarted after power cut, thanks again to Anson Cheung  
16 Apr 2011 [07:00:00]+0GLITCH Power cut, safe shut down thanks to Anson Cheung  
12 Apr 2011 [19:30:00]+0ADJUST: +300ms/day to 31050, thanks to Hilary Costello. I am viewing all this from a distance (Australia) and continue to be mystified at the cause of the change in drift that occurred around 5 April - is it due to rate of warming? Spring seems to have sprung around then.  
07 Apr 2011 [07:45:00]+0Power cut - thanks to Anson Cheung and Tim Gale for seeing to the restart.  
26 Mar 2011 [22:30:00]+0GLITCH Advanced clock for summer time (effected by Mark Rainer and Graham {clocky} Newman). The 30ms shift in drift is due to the removal of the mass of the gravity arms from the pendulum - same effect as removing mass from the regulation tray causes the clock to run slower. For about 3 minutes it ran about 4s/day slow. Note also the 1.2mrad drop in pendulum amplitude and the recovery afterwards.  
25 Mar 2011 [13:50:00]+0ADJUST: -150ms/day to 30750, may be better. Witnessed by Rebecca Loving on the eve of her departure to Chicago.  
21 Mar 2011 [06:40:00]+0ADJUST: +400 ms/day to 30900, back to where it was on 29 Jan.  
11 Mar 2011 [05:46:00]+0GLITCH Power outage (planned) complete coincdence that this is the exact time at which the Japan earthquake struck. It would have been interesting to see if the effect could be seen on the going/amplitude of the clock.  
06 Mar 2011 [11:01:00]+0So what effect is the sunshine having? The top 10% of the pendulum does not have zinc compensation in it so if it were sun-on-the-pendulum effect then sun should mean a lengthening of the pendulum and so the clock slowing down. But completely the opposite happens - the clock suddenly speeds up. It is the reverse of what we have seen ober the winter caused by central heating in the room below. There must be something to do with the clock chamber (which is enclosed) now being warmer than the room below, causing a reversal of the temperature gradient over the length of the pendulum.  
06 Mar 2011 [11:00:00]+0These kinks seem to be related to sunshine. Going was steadily downwards throughout a period of cloudy days, with occasional upward bursts wne the sun comes out. Now that other things seem to be under control (ok, now asking for trouble) the effect of sun is more obvious. There is a large window (south facing) that makes up some 30% of the surface area of the south side of the clock case, and in the afternoon the sun shines on the clock mechanism (including the top 10% of the pendulum rod --- see next comment). The window has secondary double glazing with UV film.  
26 Feb 2011 [20:00:00]+0nothing to report - just enjoying 2 weeks during which the clock has lost only 0.5 seconds. Not sure why the recent slowing down - temperature compensation is ok [link] , still not certain about the barocompensator [link] but there is a lot of noise on the plot. The biggest effect at the moment is draughts, I think, caused by differential temperature with the centrally-heated room below. As spring settles in we should see less of this.  
08 Feb 2011 [21:23:00]+0ADJUST: -250 ms/day to 30500. Reinstated the amplitude measurement plank at the top of the pendulum chamber. This might moderate the extremes of air flow that could be responsible for the observed fluctuations of going.  
01 Feb 2011 [10:00:00]+0clock restarted. Advanced by 4h15m - the longest pigeon event on record.  
01 Feb 2011 [09:00:00]+0With the help of a cherry picker I overcame my fear of heights and fitted a thin wire to the minute hand. This should, with any luck, prevent pigeons from settling on the hand. We will see.  
01 Feb 2011 [05:45:00]+0pigeons. This time they sat on the minute hand for such a length of time that they stopped the clock completely.  
31 Jan 2011 [14:45:00]+0pigeon correction +18 seconds  
31 Jan 2011 [07:45:00]+0yet another pigeon. I said I was serious. Now even more serious. Pigeons, beware.  
30 Jan 2011 [16:58:00]+0pigeon event correction, +24 seconds. Thanks to Andrew Kennedy for the company!  
30 Jan 2011 [12:45:00]+0another pigeon. I am seriously going to do something about this now.  
29 Jan 2011 [21:50:00]+0ADJUST: -150 ms/day to 30750 ... fine tuning. What better thing to be doing on a Saturday night!  
29 Jan 2011 [16:50:00]+0ADJUST: +1100 ms/day to 30900 This change is needed because of the opening up of the pendulum chamber earlier today. Colder air is now drifting down to the base of the pendulum and this is where most of the temperature-compensating zinc is. It contracts on cooling, so lengthening the pendulum (that is how it works). So the clock has slowed down. Really by an astonishing amount. I suspect the air at the base of the pendulum chamber must have been really warm due to the central heating below, set at 22C The pendulum case sits high up in the room so it may well be up in the high 20s C. The temperature up in the clock room is around 6C today. Let us see how it settles down, but I think this will be a new operating regime. I wonder if the amplitude will do anything different now that air currents will be altered?  
29 Jan 2011 [13:05:00]+0For the record, since I moved the weather station here are links to glitches that show the differential temperature effect have been happening often: [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] . They all 1296306299 +0 point to a differential temperature effect of about 150 to 200 ms/day /C thus supporting the hypothesis presented here.  
29 Jan 2011 [13:00:00]+0Having inserted the tube and opening up the chamber I am hoping we will see more uniform (and perhaps lower) temperatures down in the pendulum chamber and as a result I hope to see better temperature compensation.  
29 Jan 2011 [12:35:00]+0Unfortunately I bumped the pendulum a few times while installing the tube - hence a few glitches.  
29 Jan 2011 [12:30:00]+0I removed the boards at the top of the pendulum chamber and inserted a 1metre long 40mm tube down into the pendulum chamber with a view to encouraging cool air to descened, mix with and displace the warm air below (see photos [link] [link] thanks to Wu Hao). It has become clear that the cause of the apparent unsatisfactory temperature compensation is the fact that the lower half of the pendulum is about 2C warmer than the top half and this only occurs on very cold days. Here is an example [link] where changing tempurature of the lower half of the pendulum results in a change in going.  
29 Jan 2011 [12:28:20]+0Here is my thinking on the errors of temperature compensation. On a cold day the clock case is about 1.5C colder than the pendulum chamber as was observed on the day I moved the weather station: [link] The ideally compensated pendulum has a zinc element 2/3 the length of the pendulum (for coeff expansion Zn/Fe = 30/12 ). The bottom of the zinc element is at the bob CoM (near enough) so the top 1/3 of the pendulum length is steel with no zinc.. A temperature differential T between top and bottom (colder at the top) gives a going change of + 0.5 * 1/3 * 12e-6 = + 172ms/day /C so the 1.5C observed difference will cause the clock to run 260ms/day faster. Recent data shows that the going in the recent cold weather is about 300ms/day faster than it was in milder times [link]  
29 Jan 2011 [12:28:19]+0which is closely consistent with the calculation of 260 ms/day for the observed 1.5C temperature difference.  
19 Jan 2011 [11:27:00]+0GLITCH power outage, this stopped the logging PC even though we have a UPS... Restarted at 12h45. I took the opportunity to install some proper weights for the fly (in brass 10.5 grams each, thanks to Mark Rainer for making these) so that it spins slower and impacts less on the escapement legs. This will help avoid reverse pigeon events. The amplitude dropped during the 4 minutes it took to install these.  
17 Jan 2011 [08:50:00]+1pigeon correction, +1m21s. I am often asked - surely the virtue of the gravity escapement is that it is immune to disturbances on the hands like wind, snow, birds - yes, but there is a limit. If the pigeon provides a reverse torque greater than the forward torque provided by the drive weight then the clock will stop. It is like the cruise control in a car, if there is a head wind or if you go up a hill then the control works fine but if the wind is too strong or if the hill is too steep and it overpowers the engine then the car will slow down. I have done this calculation [link] and it turns out that perhaps one, probably two pigeons sitting on the minute hand at quarter to the hour will stop the clock. Of course, sitting on the hand at quarter past the hour adds power and up to a point the escapement can cope. I suspect that the escapement has jumped on at least one occasion  
17 Jan 2011 [08:49:59]+1[link] perhaps due to a pigeon?  
16 Jan 2011 [14:45:00]+1yet another pigeon event [link] , looks to be over a minute - perhaps two. You can see that the pigeon(s) went away and came back. I need a photograph - the only one I have is of a pigeon on the hour hand.  
16 Jan 2011 [01:01:00]+1pigeon event correction, it was 21 seconds. Thanks to Beatrice, Madonna and Indiana Jones!  
15 Jan 2011 [08:42:00]+1Looks like another pigeon, my guess is 42 seconds looking at [link] because there is a point plotted every 3 seconds  
13 Jan 2011 [20:00:00]+1correction of pigeon event, +57 seconds, witnessed by Evelina, Dop, Ben, Simon, Tony, Chris and Graham - on a jolly from the Netherlands!  
13 Jan 2011 [17:45:00]+1Pigeon event - pigeon stopped clock for 57 seconds, the bastard. [link]  
11 Jan 2011 [10:00:00]+1What caused this amplitude shift? There is a small drop in temperature and if you look at amplitude v. temperature over the last month (since the weather station was moved into the pendulum chamber) [link] you see multiple episodes of correlation between amplitude and temperature, but these are probably due to changes in drag (temperature rise causes density drop). My theory though is that a temperature rise also indicates a change in air flow so that warm air is now rising causing amplitude increase. Maybe a good idea to seal up the pendulum chamber more properly.  
10 Jan 2011 [06:35:00]+1ADJUST: +300 ms/day to 29800 - curious that ths is 3000 heavier than it was before the barocompensator was removed. Mysterious. Surely the same device returned to the same location should need the same compensation mass.  
08 Jan 2011 [11:40:00]+1ADJUST: -3400 ms/day to 29500 to compensate for the mass of the barocompensator  
08 Jan 2011 [11:02:00]+1Barometric compensator reinstalled, in the same place it was (up near the pivot) because I want to give it another chance. Thanks to Hilary for clambering around behind the clock, all witnessed by The Strassers (Mike, Lou, Peter, Andrew) and Jonnie Hunt.  
06 Jan 2011 [14:00:00]+1Mark has measured the expansion coefficients for both the aneroids at 0.03 mm/mbar - so they are working fine. In fact this is 40% more sensitive than I had assumed, so it is a mystery why the barocomp is not working. I have a theory that there is something funny about the way the flexure of the pendulum suspension works, so I am going to have a go putting the compensator further down the pendulum, away from the flexure. This is what Philip Woodward did ... so maybe there is a good reason. It will mean having to screw up the regulation nut under the bob again - which is what stuffed up the temperature compensator last time. Ah well, it all makes work for the working man to do.  
06 Jan 2011 [10:00:00]+1... the observant amongst you will have noticed that the clock sped up by 3 seconds retrospectively. This is not relativity in action - it is simply that the clock is actually sounding half a second fast at the moment, so I have brought the logger in line with the real world. Yes, there is a real world!  
05 Jan 2011 [21:30:00]+1So the barocompensator is removed. This means that I now have to do what I used to do and check the pressure forecast at BBC weather [link] because I know that the clock loses -8ms/day per mbar of pressure rise. The barometric presssure is due to rise by 20mbar over the next 6 days so lets see if the clock slows down by 120ms/day.  
05 Jan 2011 [19:00:00]+1ADJUST: +5500 ms/day to 32900 now that the barocompensator has been removed  
05 Jan 2011 [18:55:00]+1The old computer as been reinstated until we can figure out compatibility of NiDAQ drivers with OPENSUSE 11.3 Many thanks to Tim Gale for his help! Useful to record that NiDAQ drivers are updated using sudo updateNIDRIVERS `uname -r` and also to update to the server use lftp -f uploadData.lftp .  
04 Jan 2011 [14:35:00]-1Removed the barometric compensator for bench testing - this required stopping the pendulum. Thanks to Hilary Costello for climbing around behind the clock.  
04 Jan 2011 [12:00:00]-1 Datalogging suspended due to replacement of computer - the old one did not have enough memory to run the webcam reliably. Thanks to Tim Gale and Anson Cheung for all their efforts  
02 Jan 2011 [13:20:00]-1ADJUST: +400 ms/day to 27400 thanks to Mark Rainer. The barocompensator is not doing its job. I will remove it on Tuesday and give it a good look over.  
31 Dec 2010 [11:30:00]-1It is hard to tell how well the barometric and temperature compensators are working because temperature and pressure change at the same time. This is where the monitor page come in [link] because an equation for working out drift from temperature and pressure data can be tested. The equation I am testing is: Going = -120*(Temp-6)-8*(Pressure-1013)-40*dTemp/dt -60) and it fits pretty well. Here is a direct link to the drift estimate and the actual drift - a good fit [link] and the XY plot [link] shows a straight line. If this equation is right then it means that the variation of going with temperature is -120 ms/day per deg C [-520] , with pressure is -8 ms/day per mbar [-8] and with rate-or-change of temperature is 40 ms/day  
31 Dec 2010 [11:29:59]-1per degC/day [0]. The values in [ ] are for an uncompensated pendulum.  
23 Dec 2010 [13:55:00]-1ADJUST: +100 ms/day to 27000 thanks to Hilary Costello and Alice Cicirello  
21 Dec 2010 [12:30:00]-1ADJUST: -500 ms/day to 26900  
19 Dec 2010 [09:38:00]-1Bedmaker Effect, interim conclusion: 1: opening the door in the room below on a cold day causes the air flow in the pendulum chute to change (a cold downwards air flow is replaced by a warm upwards air flow) because of the chimney effect forced by the tall heated staircase in the building. 2: as the air warms up, the density and viscosity of the air both fall allowing the swing amplitude to increase. 3: The change in direction of air flow (downward to upward) causes the Going to drop (the clock slows down) because upward drag on the pendulum causes an apparent reduction in g.  
19 Dec 2010 [09:37:00]-1Bedmaker Effect (continued) 2: the Going changes more dramatically [link] . What is interesting is that there is a step change in going of about -900ms/day and this occurs straight away, not at all related to the gradual temperature rise. This is clear in the scatter plot [link] (ok, there is a gradient at the expected slope due to thermal expansion, but this is after te initial step occurs. It was Dwight Elvey who made me look again at this, and I think he is right - the observed change in going could well be due to the change in air flow up the chute. If descending cold air is replaced by rising warmer air then the sudden change in direction of air flow will cause a change in Going. This has been looked at in the Theory section of the website, and in Section 4.6.4 and  
19 Dec 2010 [09:36:59]-1estimate was calculated as -300ms/day per 1m/s of upward air flow. This suggests that the change in upward air flow this morning should have been around 3m/s - which is pretty fast. Certainly measurable. I will have to invest in a digital anemometer now!  
19 Dec 2010 [09:36:00]-1Bedmaker Effect (continued) So, here are some observations: 1: amplitude changes linearly with temperature, as can be seen in a scatter plot [link] and the fact that the rise curve and the fall curve follow each other (ie there is no hysteresis) really suggests that the temperature sensor responds quickly to temperature change and that the amplitude measurement is due to air temperature change. The gradient is about 0.8mrad/C which agrees really well with theory for how drag varies with air density. Nothing definite yet, but the evidence for this theory is mounting.  
19 Dec 2010 [09:35:00]-1Bedmaker Effect, just opening the door (no bedmaker!) on a cold morning, -4C outside. Heating on inside, really toasty. So, opening the door causes a chimney effect, forcing warm air into the pendulum chute. This temperature rise can now be seen [link] because the weather station is located in the pendulum chute itself. I have made some observations and these are in separate comments above.  
18 Dec 2010 [12:01:00]-1Conclusion on temperature sensitivity of sensor: It seems that the sensor setup is not temperature sensitive over the range of temperature changes observed in the Bedmaker Effect (below 1C change). The key indicator is seen here [link] where the amplitude change when a hairdrier is blown onto the sensor is in the wrong direction.  
18 Dec 2010 [12:00:00]-1It is good to see that the clock has settled down to where it was. [link]  
18 Dec 2010 [09:39:27]-1Expt 3: [link] Now a hair drier is used to warm up the sensor, and at the same time part of the pendulum shaft is warmed up (it is not possible with a hair drier to target the sensor being so close to the pednulum shaft). We see that there is a small change in indicated amplitude, and this is downwards consistent with the negative temperature sensitivity of the sensor as found in expt 1. But most significant is a very large change in going (slope of the drift) to -1700ms/day. This is consistent with lengthening of the pendulum due to thermal expansion, and it is a large effect because the hair drier is quite hot.  
18 Dec 2010 [09:33:36]-1Here [link] I bumped the pendulum while moving the temperature sensor into the pendulum chamber. The idea now is that the temperature indicated on the website is now the temperature inside the pendulum chamber rather than in the clock case.  
18 Dec 2010 [09:21:33]-1Expt 2: [link] The same again, but the soldering iron is in place for about 5 minutes. This time there is a bigger effect on amplitude (about -0.2mrad) but again no significant effect on going. The thing to note is that the indicated amplitude change is negative, so that the effect of rising temperature is to reduce the indicated amplitude, but temperature change does not appreciably change the indicated rate of Going. The air temperature that the soldering iron produces around the sensor is HOT - very much higher than anything that the central heating will produce. It seems then that while the sensor is indeed temperature sensitive it cannot explain the Bedmaker Effect.  
18 Dec 2010 [09:17:30]-1Experiments, in the light of helpful comments by Dwight Elvey who rightly points out that the optic sensor is probably temperature senitive. See [link] . Expt 1: placed a hot soldering iron under the sensor for about 30 seconds (wanting to warm up the sensor without warming up anything else). Note that the amplitude drops by about 0.05mrad while the going (slope of the drift) is unchanged.  
17 Dec 2010 [09:05:00]-1It is good to see a prediction come true! Interesting to note, with a longer period of the door being open, that the amplitude looks to be increasing exponentially by about 0.4mrad at a time constant of about 20 minutes. The going does not show any decay - just a step of about -450ms/day. This reinforces the theory that the change in going is due to a change in length of the outer tube due to thermal expansion - corresponds to a temperature change of +1C. The puzzle to figure out now is a mechanism for the observed change in amplitude that corresponds to a change of +1C.  
17 Dec 2010 [07:40:00]-1I asked the bedmaker to leave the door open for 20 minutes today [link] . Another concern: is the barometric compensator working [link] ? The blue data points should form a horizontal line - but they are following the -8ms/day per mbar lines exactly as we had before the compensator was installed.  
15 Dec 2010 [14:50:00]-1ADJUST: +200 ms/day to 27400 - not getting this nailed as quickly as I would like. Hopefully then clock will drift toward zero over the next few days and then I will make a final adjustment in the new year.  
11 Dec 2010 [07:40:00]-1The Bedmaker Effect is absent - as expected, it is a Saturday. But I have a theory for what has been going on, and the sums sort-of stack up [link] . Essentially, warm air is forced into the pendulum chamber causing amplitude to increase due to reduced drag and going to decrease because the outer tube of the pendulum warms up - it takes a while for the temperature compensation to reach equilibrium. A test to do on a cold morning next week will be to leave the door open for long enough for an equilibrium to be reached.  
10 Dec 2010 [09:30:00]-1ADJUST: -900 ms/day to 27200 should stabilize now that the draught-up-the-pendulum problem is fixed  
10 Dec 2010 [07:45:00]-1cleaning lady leaving the door open. Hopefully over the weekend there will be no such glitches at 07h45, nor next week during which I have asked her to leave the door closed. Perhaps, as a treat, I will let her open the door next Friday!  
09 Dec 2010 [07:35:00]-1So the plot thickens. I went in at 07h30 to see what is responsible for this amplitude glitch at 07h35 every morning [link] , it happened again today. Is it the strike silencer? No, this releases at around 07h20. Is it the sun at sunrise? No, the sun does not shine on the clock tower until about 08h10, and it is not until 08h45 that the window into the clock case is out of the shadow of the S-E turret. Is it the central heating switching on? Well, not sure, but the event is so sudden and short-lived that the heating switch-on cannot really be responsible. But at precisely 07h35 I heard a noise. It was the cleaning lady opening the door of Dr Hopkinsons room below. I went down to see her and asked if she came in at this time every day and she said yes, exactly this time - not on weekends. How long does she stay? About 10 minutes. Now, when she cleans she leaves the door wide open.  
09 Dec 2010 [07:34:59]-1This might explain why Dr Hopkinsons comings and goings have no effect. So I asked her if she would leave the door open again tomorrow but next week she will close the door when she cleans. We will see if it makes a difference. But I am still really puzzled: the pendulum chamber is now (since Tuesday) fully taped up and I cannot see any obvious places for draughts to get anywhere near the clock. Maybe there is a non-draught-related explanation - perhaps the cleaning lady is attractive to long swinging objects? Next week will be interesting. (By the way, this glitch is small by comparison to others eg pigeons and spiders, but it is curious all the same)  
08 Dec 2010 [18:22:00]-1here is an experiment, showing the effect on amplitude of the maintaining weight [link] , over a period of 18 minutes. It seems that the maintaining weight reduces pendulum amplitude at a rate of 0.01mrad/min. This is due to pallet friction, I think. It makes the effect observed earlier today all the more puzzling - the same rate of change but in the opposite direction! Note that the increased maintaining weight has no effect on going, but the 07h35 glitch shows on amplitude AND going. There is another effect in play here. What a mystery!  
08 Dec 2010 [07:35:00]-1what is this glitch [link] ? It lasts for about 10 minutes, increases amplitude by about 0.015mrad/min and seems to occur every morning at around 07h35. Now that the draught problem appears to be solved we can see more little features. maye it is something to do with the strike-sliencing mechanism? The thought is that it affects the going train as it releases between 7am and 8am. But surely this should have the same effect as the maintaining weight - ie increasing pallet friction and therefore reducing pendulum amplitude. I should check the effect of the maintaining weight this evening.  
07 Dec 2010 [23:00:00]-1sealed up the pendulum chamber with tape, thanks to Hilary Costello for help. Note that pendulum amplitude drops straight away - a good sign. The amplitude rapidly settles to a steady value overnight. The test will be at 8am tomorrow - will there be a glitch in amplitude? I hope not.  
07 Dec 2010 [08:00:00]-1Recently there have been sudden shifts in pendulum amplitude starting at around 8am every day. I suspect this is when the heating comes on, or perhaps when the cleaning lady opens the door in the room below. It is regular as clockwork on weekdays (see today(Tuesday) [link] and yesterday [link] but note that there was no glitch on Sunday [link]). Whatever the cause, recent cold weather has highlighted the variability of pendulum amplitude with air temperature. There is a cold draft coming out of the cracks around the door of the pendulum chamber so perhaps air currents around the pendulum are to blame. Suspected this for ages, so maybe tonight I should  
07 Dec 2010 [07:59:59]-1seal up the gaps and find out.  
05 Dec 2010 [16:30:00]-1ADJUST: +1100 ms/day to 28100 The amplitude is very high. Is there something to do with a cold draught in the pendulum shaft? Replaced covers to minimize space for air flow.  
02 Dec 2010 [12:00:00]-1Many thanks to Douglas Young for modifying the code to deal with temperatures below 10C - it was one of those coding things, that the data file had two spaces when the temperature was one digit, meaning that temperatures were not read in at all. Now we can monitor effects as the temperature plunges.  
28 Nov 2010 [15:50:00]-1ADJUST: +600 ms/day to 27000 still settling in  
28 Nov 2010 [13:30:00]-1ADJUST: +700 ms/day to 26400  
27 Nov 2010 [21:10:00]-1ADJUST: +000 ms/day to 25700 note that we have a new weight configuration  
27 Nov 2010 [20:30:00]-1Note that the temperature rose during this exercise - we had a fan heater going because the outside temperature was sub-zero. This should give us a good opportunity to see if the temperature compensation is working as it cools down overnight...  
27 Nov 2010 [20:00:00]-1We finally got it all back together after about 5 hours work, only to find that the clock was gaining about 140 seconds per day. We then had to wind down the regulation nut on the pendulum bob by 3.5 turns (40sec/day per turn, the pitch of screw is about 2mm). We then had to reset the bells, but in so doing we found that the second hand was out-of-synch with the quarters bells. All these unintended consequences of our simple readjustment of the pendulum!  
27 Nov 2010 [18:00:00]+1We re-assembled the pendulum, but in so doing we noticed that we had bent the gravity arms of the escapement. In order to prevent further damage we removed the gravity arms. We also re-instated the original suspension (as was removed in October). The repositioning of the gravity arms caused problems with bouncing of the escapement so we decided to adjust the fly on the escapement. This did not work so we had to dismantle the fly.  
27 Nov 2010 [16:20:00]+1Today we (Graham Newman, Mark Rainer, Hugh Hunt) had a go at fixing the temperature compensation of the pendulum. We stopped the clock at 16h20, disconnected the barometric compensator, removed the optic sensor, then Mark had made up a neat cradle for the pendulum bob so that we could remove the pendulum shaft while leaving the bob behind. We then dismantled the pendulum. There was a bit of corrosion but not enough to explain a lock-up of the compensator. We found that the zinc tube was bent by about 3mm at its centre - perhaps enough to have locked the mechanism up if it had got twisted?  
16 Nov 2010 [21:15:00]+1Correction of -15 seconds for a reverse pigeeon event. It seems that the removal of the weights on the gravity arms (17h30 30 Oct) means that the gravity arms jump more easily, as observed when the maintaining weight is engaged alongside the main driving weight. A Pigeon on the hands at hh:15 will have the same effect as a maintaining weight.  
16 Nov 2010 [15:35:00]+1ADJUST: +800 ms/day to 29500 It is clear that the temperature compensation has gone wrong [link] . Quite possibly when we adjusted the regulation nut we managed to jam something in the set of steel/zinc concentric tubes that make up the pendulum [link]  
11 Nov 2010 [08:00:00]+1TC works staff were checking out clearance in the pendulum case - they must have touched the pendulum  
09 Nov 2010 [13:25:00]+1ADJUST: -500 ms/day to 28700 Now that the pendulum is swinging nicely we can see that the temperature compensation is not ideal - sticking somewhere?  
04 Nov 2010 [08:25:51]+1ADJUST: +500 ms/day to 29200 maybe the new suspension is settling in. No matter how tight the screws are the spring will ratchet down against friction.  
02 Nov 2010 [14:30:00]+1ADJUST: +200 ms/day to 28700 - a minor adjustment, given how much change there was on Saturday  
30 Oct 2010 [20:00:00]+1The new steady-state amplitude of the pendulum appears to be 48mrad where it was 55mrad before the gravity arm weights were removed. The going seems to be very steady.  
30 Oct 2010 [18:30:00]+1the clock was restarted and adjusted to winter time.  
30 Oct 2010 [17:50:00]+1ADJUST: -000 ms/day to 28500 NB new weight configuration due to big changes today. the clock was stopped again to allow the strike to be correctly positioned and for the adjustment for winter time to be be effected.  
30 Oct 2010 [17:30:00]+0it was observed that the pendulum amplitude is much greater than it used to be - climbing to over 60mrad. It was decided to remove the two extra weights from the gravity arms - thought to date from the mid eighties when Andrew Huxley had them installed in order to prevent the clock from stopping. It may be, way back then, that the problem all along was rubbing against the pendulum chamber door and impact with the door lock.  
30 Oct 2010 [16:30:00]+0the clock was restarted. After such drastic alteration to the pendulum the clock was going at -236 seconds per day so it was necessary to make drastic adjustment to resume steady going. The regulation nut at the bottom of the pendulum was used. First we tried 2 full turns, then 2 more, then 2 more. This was too much. It appears that each full turn increases the going by 45 seconds per day. We then backed off by half a turn, then another half and then one final half turn. This is where we left it.  
30 Oct 2010 [15:30:00]+0a new suspension was installed. It has 100mm radius cycloidal cheeks and these may help to regulate the variation of going with amplitude. It has a thinner flexure. The barometric compensator was re-installed. The computer logging system was re-located to the easte end of the clock room, and the associated instrumentation was also moved. It all looks a lot tidier.  
30 Oct 2010 [14:30:00]+0The clock was stopped. The pendulum suspension was removed in order to understand why the pendulum moves with a twist. There is accumulated grime in the suspension but no sign of a crack as was suspected. What seems to be happening, though, is that not only has the pendulum has been rubbing on the pendulum-case door it has also been bumping into the door lock. We have removed all obstruction from the pendulum case door and hopefully this will give the pendulum a free swing.  
30 Oct 2010 [14:00:00]+0A big day of work planned. Present were Rosie Ayton, Sam Ricketson, Hilary Costello, Tim Gale, Mark Rainer, Graham Newman, Hugh Hunt  
19 Oct 2010 [13:10:00]+0ADJUST: -400 ms/day to 43170  
02 Oct 2010 [15:05:00]+0ADJUST: +250 ms/day to 43570 witnessed by Cindy and Rob. Not sure why I should be doing this - the going was so good early in September and now it has gone all over the place. Perhaps time to look at the suspension spring... Rob, stickler for symmetry, had me put the regulation weights more evenly on each side of the pendulum shaft - maybe this will help!  
30 Sep 2010 [10:45:00]+0The pigeons are certainly back, caused a 30-second glitch  
25 Sep 2010 [08:45:00]+0A pigeon event, caused a glitch of 27 seconds  
16 Sep 2010 [09:45:00]+0The first pigeon event of the autumn. They are back. Damn. [link]  
13 Sep 2010 [08:00:00]+0Something happened here - after two weeks of beautiful steady going the amplitude has suddenly dropped and the clock is racing. I suspect the pendulum is touching something. Maybe the door to the case has blown itself closed?  
07 Sep 2010 [11:00:00]+0Wonderful steady going. The sudden pressure drop due to recent bad weather did not affect the going - barometric compensator working very well.  
07 Sep 2010 [10:45:00]+0Bill and Shirley Burbidge from Perth WA visited today. While waiting they saw two pigeons land on the minute hand at 11h45. They said that the minute hand bounced up and down as if it were on springs. Interesting that the two pigeons didn not cause a glitch. Maybe it takes three! I really need photographs...  
31 Aug 2010 [12:50:00]+0ADJUST: +120 ms/day to 43320 as witnessed by Sean Holden. The aim now is to be at zero for time change in October.  
06 Aug 2010 [22:00:00]+0correction +48 seconds for pigeon even of 29 July - see [link] - thanks Anson Cheung for doing this!  
05 Aug 2010 [07:15:00]+0ADJUST: +300 ms/day 43200ms  
03 Aug 2010 [06:20:00]+0A massive effect! One theory for why the pendulum only sometimes rubs the door of the clock case is that the lean of the tower varies with seasons and temperature. Ground water table variations will affect foundations (the post on my garden gate demonstrates this admirably). Also I estimate that the sun shining on the south-facing wall of the tower could cause a 5C temperature difference between the S and N faces, hence causing a lean, and 0.2mm shift in the position of the pendulum ...  
02 Aug 2010 [17:30:00]+0Restart computer after a power cut. Also opened the pendulum door a bit. Et voila! The going is now -300ms/day. Looks as if Graham-the-sleuth Newman hit the nail on the head. We will wait and see...  
01 Aug 2010 [22:00:00]+0Graham sensibly suggested that maybe the door of the pendulum case is rubbing on the pendulum - this would make sense as we closed the door firmly and locked it, where it was only partially closed before. This would reduce pendulum amplitude and hence speed the clock up  
29 Jul 2010 [07:50:00]+0Pigeon on minute hand, about 45 seconds duration, see [link] - corrected 6 Aug 2010  
24 Jul 2010 [17:40:00]+0Today we had a visit from the Antiquarian Horological Society - Turret Clock Group. More experts the clock has surely never seen. A good day was had by all. Afterwards Graham Newman and I tried to measure the diameter of the pendulum bob - without stopping it. I was holding the tape measure, but I guess I slipped ... hence the glitch on amplitude and drift.  
11 Jul 2010 [15:05:00]+0ADJUST: -100 ms/day 42900. This hot weather is doing something strange. Not surprised! Helped today by the Gunners: Vanessa, Alex, Melissa, Sumie and Chris.  
06 Jul 2010 [22:30:00]+0ADJUST: -100 ms/day 43000. Needed a bit more. Thanks to Eduardo, Cecilia, Zoran, Kai und Michael  
02 Jul 2010 [06:00:00]+0power cut caused logging system to shut down. Restart thanks to Tim Gale, the earlybird. Webcam was not restarted - we arere working on it.  
30 Jun 2010 [00:00:00]+0I think this sudden change in going is caused by a change in the direction of air flow up the pendulum chamber  
14 Jun 2010 [14:00:00]+0ADJUST: -250 ms/day 43100ms, Clearly I did not get this right. Try again (with the help of Jane, James, Maggie, Elsie, Naomi!)  
16 May 2010 [13:00:00]+0ADJUST: +30 ms/day 43350ms, getting fussy! I should really wait now to see what the barocompensator does.  
07 May 2010 [20:15:00]+0ADJUST: -50 ms/day 43320ms, just a little bit more...  
27 Apr 2010 [11:05:00]+0ADJUST: -130 ms/day 43370ms, this is a final adjustment (hopefully) after fitting of the barometric compensator. The clock is currently 0.14s fast and it would be great if it stayed that way for a few months ...  
15 Apr 2010 [22:00:00]+0can anyone explain why the pendulum amplitude should increase suddenly like this: [link] . It happens gradually over two hours from 10pm to midnight. The only thought I have is reduced friction on the escapement as the cable on the drum winds down from the second layer to the first, but if so then why does it not happen every week?  
08 Apr 2010 [00:00:00]+0removed the reference gradient lines for Going vs Pressure because the barometric compensator seems to be doing its job.  
30 Mar 2010 [11:05:00]+0introduced a plate to reduce airflow past the pendulum. There has been a step change in going - I wonder if this it related?  
28 Mar 2010 [11:20:00]+0ADJUST: -1500 ms/day 43500ms, bringing to -2600ms/day the total mass compensation for the barometric compensator  
28 Mar 2010 [00:15:00]+0ADJUST: -1100 ms/day 45000ms, necessary to compensate for the mass of the barometric compensator. Will need further adjustment in the morning.  
28 Mar 2010 [00:10:00]+0fitted a barometric compensator [link] , mass of compensator is 1.854kg, installed close to the pendulum flexure. As a guess, the CoG of the compnesator is between 2% to 5% away from the flexure towards the adjustment table, hence expect to have to remove about 20 to 60 grams of weight, equivalent to about 2000 to 6000ms/day  
28 Mar 2010 [00:05:00]+0plugged gaps under the floor boards to reduce air currents - and maybe to deter spiders.  
28 Mar 2010 [00:00:00]+0GLITCH clock advanced for summer time.  
25 Mar 2010 [09:00:00]+0GLITCH restart after another outage  
21 Mar 2010 [20:50:00]+0GLITCH logger restart after a power outage  
20 Mar 2010 [12:15:00]+0ADJUST: +100 ms/day 46100ms, and advanced 30 sec for pigeon event  
17 Mar 2010 [16:45:00]+0pigeon on the minute hand caused the clock to stop for 30 seconds  
07 Mar 2010 [12:00:00]+0After a College-wide power outage the computer system was restarted.  
05 Mar 2010 [06:48:00]-1Pigeon event (now that the sun is shining again). Reset by 54 seconds on Sat 6 March, 13h15  
23 Feb 2010 [12:15:00]-1ADJUST: -200 ms/day 46000ms (barometric pressure is forecast to stay low for several more days yet...)  
29 Jan 2010 [11:00:00]-1ADJUST: -300 ms/day 46200ms (settling down to a final value, still 100ms/day more than in summer 2009)  
23 Jan 2010 [20:00:00]-1ADJUST: +500 ms/day 46500ms  
23 Jan 2010 [19:30:00]-1The difficultly in setting the Going is, I think, due to air currents up and down the pendulum chamber. If air is flowing upwards then drag reduces effective g and in addition the amplitude increases. Both these effects slow the clock down. It may be that there is a switch between upflow in spring (warm air rises) and downflow in autumn (cold air is heavy). Note the step change in going around mid November.  
19 Jan 2010 [13:50:00]-1ADJUST: +500 ms/day leaving 46000 ms  
12 Jan 2010 [23:10:00]-1ADJUST: -200 ms/day leaving 45500 ms  
12 Jan 2010 [23:00:00]-1Unfortunately, the cardboard was gently touching the pendulum which caused a massive hike in the going. Corrected.  
12 Jan 2010 [12:15:00]-1Pigeon glitch correction of 36 seconds. Also put some cardboard baffles around the pendulum shaft in an attempt to reduce the updraft and downdraft that appears to be affecting the going.  
12 Jan 2010 [12:10:00]-1ADJUST: +700 ms/day (to 45700 ms of weights) - hope to be back to time next Tuesday  
09 Jan 2010 [13:45:00]-1More pigeons - twice (30 seconds stoppage) [link]  
08 Jan 2010 [14:50:00]-1ADJUST: -1000 ms/day (to 45000 ms of weights) - I want to get the drift back to near zero. It seems as if the winter going is faster than the summer going. Does this mean that the temperature compensation is not quite right?  
05 Jan 2010 [14:20:00]-175sec correction for pigeon on 29 Dec  
05 Jan 2010 [14:15:00]-1ADJUST: -100 ms/day (to 46000 ms of weights)  
29 Dec 2009 [08:45:00]-1pigeon caused 75 second stoppage [link], corrected on 5 Jan.  
09 Dec 2009 [14:45:00]-1another pigeon caused 9 second stoppage [link] see photo at [link]  
08 Dec 2009 [10:45:00]-1pigeons stopped the clock for 4 minutes - this is getting serious! If you look closely you can see 3 separate pigeon events [link]  
07 Dec 2009 [10:45:00]-1pigeons on the minute hand, 30 second glitch [link]  
07 Dec 2009 [09:15:00]-1bumped the pendulum accidentally.  
05 Dec 2009 [07:45:00]-1another glitch [link] . BUT we now know what causes the glitches: Mr Down (a College Porter) saw a pigeon sitting on the minute hand. Indeed, the glitches always occur around hh:40 to hh:50 (when the minute hand is horizontal and rising) , and always in daylight hours. The pigeons are present on the dial in large numbers especially when the sun is shining - a warm south-facing place to sit [link] . A quick calculation: suppose two pigeon each weighing 1kg are sitting on the minute hand at a distance of 0.5m from the pivot, and so rising at about 1mm/sec. They requires 10mW of power to lift them (force*velocity). Then the 80kg _going_ weight falling 9m in 7 days generates 12mW of power (again force*velocity). So a power balance suggests that a pigeon or two can easily stop the clock.  
01 Dec 2009 [12:10:00]-1pendulum case in Dr Hopkinson s room opened, very noticeable downdraft. Caused clock to speed up - as expected from theory.  
24 Nov 2009 [09:50:00]-1glitch of 33 seconds, fixed at 13h00 same day [link]  
15 Nov 2009 [09:00:00]-1power outage caused data-logging PC to shut down (College disconnected due to works on the new electricity supply to the Kitchens). The weather station data (pressure, temperature, humidity) seems to have been permanentlly affected. Will need to be fixed.  
12 Nov 2009 [11:00:00]-1solar glazing installed, hopefully will help keep the sun from shining too hotly on the pendulum  
05 Nov 2009 [08:50:00]-1glitch of 9 seconds, [link] fixed 09h45 the following day  
03 Nov 2009 [18:35:00]-1glitch adjustment  
03 Nov 2009 [15:50:00]-1glitch of 30 seconds [link] . I think the cable of the going is jamming somewhere  
25 Oct 2009 [00:15:00]-1GLITCH End of Summer Time adjustment, clock advanced by 23 hours  
20 Oct 2009 [13:00:00]-1corection of 9s glitch, plus wind the clock, plus preparation for clock change on Sunday morning  
19 Oct 2009 [11:45:00]-1another glitch [link]  
09 Oct 2009 [13:30:00]-1GLITCH New GPS installed. Normal data gathering resumed.  
05 Oct 2009 [16:10:00]-1GLITCH GPS fault - data gathering halted. New GPS received on order.  
01 Oct 2009 [06:45:00]-1another .... [link]  
29 Sep 2009 [11:00:00]-1correction of 9s glitch plus attention to the freedom of movement of the weight cables - perhaps they are not sliding so freely against each other as they should, and a little freeing up was attempted.  
28 Sep 2009 [06:50:00]-1another glitch [link]  
27 Sep 2009 [09:43:00]-1yet another glitch in amplitude [link] , this time only 9 seconds in duration. What causes this? A real mystery.  
25 Sep 2009 [22:06:00]-1reset the time - interesting that it was only 1min40sec slow, even though the pendulum decay was over 3 minutes. The plot thickens!  
25 Sep 2009 [17:00:00]-18 days later, the same has happened again. Almost identical drop in amplitude over 3 minutes.  
18 Sep 2009 [09:56:48]-1advanced clock by over 3 minutes - whatever it was that happened last night it stopped the clock for quite a while. Close inspection of the amplitude data shows that the escapement was _stuck_ for 3mins 20sec. Is there a big spider about? Or a rat?  
17 Sep 2009 [16:13:20]-1what on earth happened here? Amplitude dropped by 2 mm!  
15 Sep 2009 [12:45:31]-1during the winding I accidentally touched the pendulum - hence a glitch in amplitude. It should settle quite quickly  
31 Aug 2009 [10:39:00]-1ADJUST: +150 ms/day (back to 46100 ms of weights). This is because the clock has had a mean drift of around -150ms/day for the month of August, and has dropped 4 seconds. Curious, though, that the clock was actually 23 seconds slow today. I wonder if a mouse/rat gets into the fly and stops the escapement from time to time? Something seems to be happening. Really need a webcam!  
25 Aug 2009 [13:00:00]-1Is this another spider? The amplitude has dropped for a few hours, no particular feature in meteo properties.  
21 Aug 2009 [13:30:00]-1GLITCH Computer restarted, thanks to Sam Wenham and Rick Lupton  
30 Jul 2009 [14:00:00]+2GLITCH PC FAILURE - no data available until further notice. Sorry!  
19 Jul 2009 [10:20:00]+2ADJUST: -150 ms/day (to 45950 ms of weights). The clock has crept to 3.4 seconds fast and is averaging 50ms/day fast. I hope now to drop 100ms/day for 30 days to bring the clock back in line, but who knows what the weather will do - and the spiders.  
14 Jul 2009 [08:45:00]+2ANNUAL SERVICE by Smith of Derby (Jonathan Lee and Matthew Smith). I asked them not to interfere with the escapement or the pendulum. They investigated weights scraping against the stonework during winding, found that the First Strike (Trinity Strike) was scraping. They will make a minor adjustment. Also invesitgated the uneven winding of the Going line on the Going drum. We tried refitting the line at the ratchet end but found that the line then interfered with the quarters advancing bar. General service involving oiling and a check over. As a result, pendulum amplitude has dropped. I wonder if it will recover?  
07 Jul 2009 [04:26:40]+2another amplitude glitch. We really need a webcam looking for spiders!  
04 Jul 2009 [19:35:00]+2 1100 ms/day removed briefly to check calibration  
03 Jul 2009 [11:00:00]+2... no further adjustment necessary (a pleasant surprise)  
02 Jul 2009 [17:00:00]+2replaced miscellaneous washers with calibrated brass weights (courtesy Gareth Ryder who has also made a nice box for them). It was not possible to get the weight exactly right so I suppose an adjustment will be needed tomorrow, or over the weekend after the amplitude has settled down.  
15 Jun 2009 [09:30:00]+2ADJUST: -130 ms/day (to 46100 ms)  
11 Jun 2009 [13:45:00]+2GLITCH Logging interrupted to install UPS.  
08 Jun 2009 [04:00:00]+2... another spider? What caused the 1mrad (=1mm) drop in amplitude at 4am, recovered 2 hours later?  
19 May 2009 [15:44:38]+2Another curiosity is that small changes of Going vs Amplitude [link] shows a positive slope - not sure why. And there seem to be clusters - as if behaviour changes quickly and sits still for a while. The normal physics of a pendulum [link] predicts a negative slope, as here [link] so there is something more subtle going on. Maybe the spider again?  
19 May 2009 [14:58:20]+2Just a general remark, it has been noticeable over the last few days that pendulum amplitude forms a nice linear relationship with air density. This fits perfectly with a 0.5*rho*V^2 drag law. see [link]  
19 May 2009 [12:05:00]+2clock wound at 1.05pm - note the small glitch in amplitude, perhaps opening the clock case causes air currents that causing a small change in pendulum motion. Or maybe the act of winding moves the clock bed slightly causing the pendulum to be disturbed.  
17 May 2009 [00:00:00]+2... and why has it suddenly changed back at midnight? There is no change in anything else - some physics not accounted for here!  
14 May 2009 [23:30:00]+2What caused this gradual change in going, over 8 hours before and after midnight?  
12 May 2009 [12:05:00]+2clock wound at 1.05pm. temp is stable and going seems to be spot on zero. Might this last until October now?  
06 May 2009 [09:00:00]+2the spider again? Things settle down well after this - back to normal and very good running.  
03 May 2009 [16:00:00]+2very strange event, amplitude dropped by 1mrad so clock sped up by 1s/day, corrected itself the next morning. Could this have been a spider spinning its web between the pendulum and the casing? This is a really good event to plot as Going vs Amplitude becvause it obeys the pendulum physics beautifully. [link]  
01 May 2009 [13:00:00]+2ADJUST: +80 ms/day (to speed the clock up)  
15 Apr 2009 [01:00:00]+2clock stopped due to lack of winding  
20 Mar 2009 [14:26:11]-1Clock logger started - this is where the fun begins  
02 Feb 2009 [15:10:55]+0Smith of derby come in to tidy up the cables so that 7-day running is possible. Overall they have not paid much attention to the objective here. I doubt we will be working with them for much longer.  
14 Jan 2009 [15:09:47]+0NO! the clock stops about half a day short. Smith of Derby are not impressive.  
07 Jan 2009 [15:08:33]+0Clock restarted after 5 weeks of silence. Hopefully the clock will run for a week...  
03 Nov 2008 [15:06:28]+0Smith of Derby stop the clock for 4 weeks in order to convert the clock to 3-line running so that it will run for 7 days between winds.  
01 Oct 2008 [15:02:18]+0Rick Lupton starts his MEng project to create this web-based clock logging system  
01 Oct 2005 [14:59:29]+0James Strachan completes a summer project working on an optic sensor for monitoring the clock  
01 Jun 2005 [14:57:18]+0GianCarlo Pacitti completes his MEng project on clock monitoring using a microphone to measure ticks  
20 Feb 2004 [12:00:10]+0note that in this diary "winding with" means that Dr Hunt is present with the named winders. "Winding by" means that the named people have done the winding independently.  
20 Feb 2004 [12:00:00]+0Council Minute 2004.61(b), Dr Glauert is thanked for 20 years of service looking after the clock and Dr Hunt takes over  

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