odd question about building a clock

Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:45 pm     Post subject: odd question about building a clock

Hi,

I dont know much at all about building clocks, but i am currently building a home with a clock tower on it ( a little something with a wethervane on it) we decided a clock would be neat,

what we want to do though is have a simple electric operated clock up there but we want chimes. Is there a system we can buy where its an electric clock with real chimes? like large chimes you can year outside?

Any kits would be handy... i don't even know where to start with something like this..

any help would be great

thanks in advance
mattyj

Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 2:40 pm     Post subject:

Matty, for safety (12volt systems), off the shelf simplicity, and cost you might search the sites containing car speaker systems and components. I imagine you could also add a simple wireless remote switch to control the hourly chimes. I would start by investing time and money on a permanent speaker system and work backwards to a cheap chimes generator/interface to the clock as a replaceable unit which you could later upgrade to a more sophisticated (build your own chime audio files and 'upload' to the tower) system. Sounds like nice project with lots of options.