Originally Posted by
el marinero
Many thanks for the detailed breakdown of the circuit board components, very much appreciated. Thankfully, the board is OK. I dismantled everything on the electrical side, cleaned connections and when put back together the thing came alive! However, the clock will only flip one time and then becomes jammed up on the next minute impulse. The motor tries to turn the stator (it is a sychronous motor) but fails to flip the tiles. So I am thinking that it is meeting some resistance in the gear train. I have ordered some graphite powder with the aim of carefully taking apart the mechanism, cleaning and applying lube. All the gears are plastic, so Iīm thinking that a dry lubricant would be much better for the job.