[DML] Inermittent Clock
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[DML] Inermittent Clock



This Intermittent Clock solution might help someone.
 
Minor detail but it bugged me not to have everything working.  My clock worked fine for a year after I got the car.  It is the clock built into the console in my 81.   It got so it changed time on me a lot. I have worked with electronics most of my life, so I tried to psych it out.   After trying various things suggested, such as replacing various diodes here and there.
I then I tried connecting it to the Cig Lighter and that didn't work.   Then I finally decided to run a hot wire direct to the battery.  Still no good.  I was at my wits end.
 
I thought, after a year of owning the car, that it did not seem to turn over very fast in starting.  Finally one day it did not start at all.  I took the battery to the dealer, who checked it out.....bad cell.  They gave me a new battery under warrantee, for a very small difference.  When I purchased the car two and a half years ago, the original owner was nice enough to have installed, a new heaviest duty battery in it we could find.....so who would think that "new" battery could be bad....but it WAS. 
 
I reset the clock and for 6 months now it has been running perfectly.  And the car starts quickly now!  Apparently the low voltage when I started the car would not run the clock for that period, so it was always "OFF".   In my "other" hobby of ham radio I have run into problems created by voltage drop many times and am still kicking myself for not thinking of it sooner.
 
 
   


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