that clock runs way fast on US AC power

So upon arrival back to the USA, on Wednesday I bought a couple of low capacity step-up transformers that change USA 110-volt power to 220-volt power. The bug killers work great through the transformers.

The clock on the other hand - not so much. It really does derive its timing from the frequency of the AC power! It's expecting 50hz and getting faster - 60hz - and in real life that means that an hour on that clock is less than that in realtime. I will make it work but the solution will be very much rube goldberg.

It's going to either go down the path of figuring out which IC chip drives the whole thing and taking a peek at its datasheet, then doing a bit of soldering if that looks promising (i.e. internally rewire the beast)

Either that or its going to be the rube goldberg route. Y'know how you can get those auto cigarette lighters that have a regular household outlet on the other end so you can power a small TV or charge a phone? Well naturally those exist in the rest of the world but in versions with those funky round pin'd plugs and most importantly, output 220v 50hz power.

Lot of bloody work to run a damn clock but it was a lot of bloody work to ship it halfway around the world too. :)