How's electric tower clock developed?

The oldest tower clock appeared in Europe about five hundred years ago and was completely mechanical construction with pendulum as driving force and bells were stroke manually for chimes.  Therefore, a tower clock project at that time is very much complicated.  As stepping into electric era, electric tower clock controlled by microprocessor and computer has been developed.  In China, this industry has grown up since 1980s and now has achieved the world top level in technologies and applications.

What does a tower clock consist of?

The electric tower clock is a mech-electric product consisting control center and slave clocks.  The control center includes master clock, GPS receiver, hour-striking control, and illuminating control, etc.  Master clock or GPS receiver is the time base and provides standard time information for the entire system.   The control center sends signals to control slave clocks running, hour striking, and illumination.  The slave clocks are clocks that people see from outside, normally there are four in one tower clock (sometimes one, two, there, or more than four).  Each slave clock consists of movement, dial, markers, hands, and backup batteries. 

How to set up the plan for a tower clock project?

If you need us to provide the plan for your tower clock project, you'd better send us your requirements and drawings of the installation position.  After reception of these information, we'll recommend a plan according to your request in the shortest time.

What are the materials for dial?

Light construction materials are often used for tower clock dials, such as fluorocarbon coated aluminum plate, aluminum alloy plate, acrylic plate with stainless steel frame, and aluminum plastic plate.  The wall surface of the building can also be used as dial itself. 

How to determine dial style?

We have more than twenty dial samples picture for you to make a choice.

How to determine dial size with installation height?

What's music hour striking?

Music hour striking is programmed music and/or chimes play at specified hours.  We provide CD quality music striking and voice chip quality music striking as well.  Different chimes and music melodies can be provided on request.

How many options for tower clock illumination?

Illumination controlled automatically by the tower clock control center has four options: hands and markers illumination, reflective illumination, inside-dial illumination, and outer lamp illumination.

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