Celing fan / light combo wireless remotes

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This might not have anything to do with it but since no one has mentioned it I own one of those atomic clocks that reset itself every night (late at night when the air frequencies are lowest). The signal originates from Colorado, so depending what time zone your in......just a thought.:-?
 
sguinn said:
since no one has mentioned it I own one of those atomic clocks that reset itself every night (late at night when the air frequencies are lowest). The signal originates from Colorado, so depending what time zone your in......just a thought.:-?
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I read about that thing one time. It has something like a 2500-mile coverage radius from [Boulder?] Colorado.

... time passes ...

Ok, looked it up. It is in Boulder. It doesn't send out the signal every night, it sends it out all the time via a 50,000 watt transmitter at 60,000 Hz.

"The time code is sent in BCD (Binary Coded Decimal) and indicates minutes, hours, day of the year and year, along with information about daylight savings time and leap years. The time is transmitted using 53 bits and 7 separators, and therefore takes 60 seconds to transmit."

http://www.ntp-time-server.com/atomic-clock.htm

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This might not have anything to do with it
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Nope, it doesn't. But thanks for the diversion! :)
 
Them atomic clocks are junk and do not work..we had bunch of them and they were never synorized always had different times in different rooms..can you imagine how that screws with college students minds..
 
wonder if the frigid northern MN atmosphere has issue with signal or is it the metal buildings and concrete walls..wait this is only college not prison though few might disagree..
 
jerm said:
I've never had a problem with them. Maybe reception at 60,000 Hz isn't good in your area.
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True. Sometimes mine will be weird around time changes but for the most part it works great. By the way the national time is kept by the atomic clock which is set by measuring the oscillations of cesium 233 in a vacuum. It's supposed to lose a second every million years. Pretty cool.:cool:
 
What about a garage door opener? I've had similiar experiances with phantom operation of fan and light kits from this. Usually it was the old 9 or 12 code from Genie or Stanley that did it.
 
Anyone driving around the neighborhood real slow? Maybe someone with a code grabbing scanner got your fan instead - and they keep waiting for a garage door to open???? ;)
 
I did not know you had a code graber you shuld hook a brother up..I think it is fun going around and opening people garage doors..The look on their faces when the door is opening with there hands full of groceries is priceless..
 
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I've seen stranger things :)

Once, I saw a business owner get out of his car with eight different remotes and try to open his garage door to his business
 
kkwong said:
What about a garage door opener? I've had similiar experiances with phantom operation of fan and light kits from this. Usually it was the old 9 or 12 code from Genie or Stanley that did it.
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Wasn't there an episode of Bewitched like this? Aircraft kept flying over head and opening the door at night and Gladys Kravitz went crazy as usual?

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