Ed,
it's not a matter of watts or for that matter volts... it's frequency.
Electric clocks get their time keeping ability from the 60 cycle frequency
of the A.C. supplied to the house.
I've never seen a situation where one outlet in the house could have a
different frequency than the the rest of the house when they were all fed by
the same circuitry...
I'll be interested in the answer also... could be something to do with your
moon phase or possibly a gravitational shift in the continuim or something
:-)
john
>
> A friend sent me this baffling note from a friend, any
> help here would be greatly appreciated.
>
> "In our bedroom we have a electrical outlet that is
> driving me nuts. Seems when you plug in a clock to
> this one outlet the clock begins to gain time faster
> then it should. At first I thought I had a bad clock
> so I changed it out for another one in the house that
> had been working fine. It to began to add about 15
> mins. each day to the replacement clock. The one I
> removed from the outlet returned to normal after
> plugging it into a outlet in another bedroom. I know
> the one solution would be to just use another outlet
> but is there a problem that I need to address with the
> outlet in question? Can a outlet some how get more
> watts to it that it could change the time in a clock?
> If you have any suggestions PLEASE pass them on to me.
> I don't have a meter to check this out but I'm
> thinking of getting one. I'm not sure what it would
> tell me to help fix the problem.
>
> Thanks,
> Ed
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