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I need to make an AC totalizer hours meter count time 10 times slower.
See, on the surplus market there are plenty of 6 digit models that will
take just over one year to roll over, I need one that will take 10 years
to roll over.

Now of course the easy way to do this is to just make a PIC chip turn
the totalizer on for one minute, off for nine etc. But then I'd have to
get a little transformer, mount it in my box, do up a circuit board, get
a solid state relay etc...

I want to be a bit more clever, if possible. If I were to run the motor
on 6hz, would it go a tenth as fast? Is this like a stepper motor, or
are there more complex issues at play? I know that a transformer that
works great at 60hz, would have to be much larger at 6hz...

Assuming the above was true, how would you go about generating 120V 6hz
anyway?


And before anyone suggests it... Mechanical solutions are right out.
The totalizers I want to use are very tamper resistant; the gears are in a
hermetically sealed welded box and looks are important for what I'm
doing.

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