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Originally Posted by ratbastid
Neat!
I think I've heard of this before. An electric clock is basically a stepped-down electric motor. Electric motors don't really have directionality, they can run in either direction. That means that the right amount of resistence can influence which direction it starts running.
Not as poetic as your explanation, though!
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AC motors always run in the same direction, DC motors switch direction depending on the direction of the current. This clock must have had a DC motor to be able to run backwards, which would make sense as it probably ran off batteries.
It would seem likely to me that during the times when you were in emotional and financial turmoil, you were paying less attention to trivial matters and just put the batteries in the clock the wrong way round, especially if that's the way they had been put in previously.
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