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Frequency counter detecting gravity effects
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> Yeah, they're not sensitive to magnetic fields. But they do drift with temperature Also, gravity: this video
EEVblog #646 - Gravity Detection Using A Frequency Counter!
68K views · Jul 30, 2014 · 9:54 · 0 HN recommenders · 5 mentions · discussed 2014–2023
Dave Jones of EEVblog demonstrates that a frequency counter can detect gravity through the 2g tipover effect on quartz crystal oscillators. He shows the reading shift as the instrument's orientation changes.
Why Hacker News points people here: HN links it as a hands-on demonstration that oscillator frequency depends on orientation relative to gravity.
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“freqency depends also on gravitation”
Frequency depends on orientation
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My bad, I was before my coffee. One additional thing that wasn't yet mentioned is that freqency depends also on gravitation, so orientation of your motherboard could matter (for the curious - this video ). I'm not really sure it's big enough to matter though.
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Related to orientation effects on quartz
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The Zenith Defy Lab watch has accuracy of -0.5/+0.5 seconds per day, which matches and/or beats quartz watches (that aren't thermocompensated). Rolexes, which have a classical movement design, are pretty close, promising -2/+2 spd. Quartz watches' accuracy also varies depending on orientation, for what it's worth. (It has an effect on the order of 1-2 seconds per year.) Related EEVBlog link: this video
Oscillator gravity sensitivity
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Maybe if you can show me that if you flick an RC oscillator you can detect it, then I'll believe it's a silly distinction. Or if RC oscillators can detect gravity: this video I'm also curious what it would mean to you for two things to be doing "fundamentally different" things. Do you believe in the difference between a mechanical oscillator and an electrical oscillator? Mechanical oscillators like a spring/mass exchange energy between kinetic and electrical energy (a moving mass and a strained material). An RC oscillator exchanges energy between elements that store energy in an electric field and a magnetic field. That feels fundamentally different even in a four-fundamental-forces kind of manner.
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Demonstration of crystal acceleration sensitivity
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> Typical crystal acceleration sensitivities will range from about 1 x 10-10 per g for specially constructed precision SC-cut and AT-cut resonators to the order of 10-7 per g for tuning fork resonators. link Demonstration: this video