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In article <77...@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> John R. Mudd <j...@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
>She also mentioned the clock she had in her office.  It ran counter-clock-
>wise.  Her premise was that it was just a clock, it didn't matter which
>direction the hands turned, it simply had to tell time.  I've been meaning
>to fix a clock to do this someday.
>
>... John

Funny you should mention it.  In an '82 Buick I have owned for several years
now, the clock in the car has had the strangest tendency to reverse direction
on the slightest impulse.  Anything from a dead battery to a pothole is
capable of flipping it's "polarity".  Currently it is going clockwise, but when
it is going counterclockwise, I have to set it to the mirror image of the
correct time for the clock to be useful.  Blows my passengers' minds when
I glance at a clock reading 4:50 and say, "Oh, it's ten after seven."

Any EE majors or car buffs have any idea what the cause might be?  (I am a
EE major myself, but I am clueless on this one.)  Please Email, I am not
subscribed to rec.autos.

Kevin Podsiadlik				    g...@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
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P.S. I don't know if my clock goes "kcot-kcit" when it runs backwards.