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cuckoo clock from weight-driven to battery? possible?

Dec 09, 2009 by Crystals | Posted in Maintenance & Repairs

Is it possible to change a cuckoo (weight) to be powered by a battery? Is there a kit or businesses that do?
It is annoying to constantly reset it if you went the weekend.

If you have a weight cuckoo engine you can sell it on eBay for a tidy sum.

A Look at Cuckoo Clock Movement

by Morgan

The inside mechanics of cuckoo clocks maintain virtually the same design since the day they were first created in the Black Forest of Germany.  While the parts are now sometimes made out of metal and plastic instead of the all wood versions that started it all, the weights and counterbalance mechanisms that help them perform accurately and to imitate the sound of the cuckoo bird have not changed much in almost 300 years.A mechanical movement run by weights that hang from the bottom of the clock drives the action of most cuckoo clocks.  Most clocks have three weights, while some larger more complex versions require three weights hanging from the front of the cabinet.They are commonly in the shape of pinecones and must be pulled periodically, depending on the model.Spring-driven cuckoo clocks never really caught on and subsequently are quite rare. Black Forest cuckoo clocks run on a set of wheels that lock gears and provide the power necessary to swing the pendulum back and forth. Every time the pendulum makes a complete swing back and forth, one tooth of the wheel is released from the escape wheel.

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