wjm@whuxj.UUCP (MITCHELL) (05/07/84)
The best advice I've heard about stylus checking is that a stylus should first be inspected at 500 hours of use and every 100 hours thereafter. 2000 hours is FAR too long until first inspection, given the damage a worn stylus can do to records. One simple, and downright CHEAP trick I use for tracking time is to get one of those $1.99 counters they sell for keeping track of your grocery bills - totally mechanical with four plungers, one for each digit and the beastie counts to 9999. Each time I play a side of an LP, I increment the counter by one. Since most classical LP's have about 30 minutes of music on a side, I simply divide the reading by 2 to get the total hours logged on the stylus. Bill Mitchell Bell Communications Research, Inc. Whippany, NJ (whuxj!wjm)
wjm@whuxj.UUCP (MITCHELL) (05/17/84)
<munch, munch, munch> One problem with using an electrical elapsed time meter connected to the turntable power supply is that it measures the time the turntable is on, not necessarily the time the stylus is playing records. This problem is particularly significant if you have a manual turntable or one with auto-lift (but not auto-stop). On a fully automatic turntable it would probably work fairly well. Bill Mitchell Bell Communications Research, Inc. Whippany, NJ (whuxj!wjm)