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Independent battery chime in mantel clock?


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I was recently given a handsome 1930s wooden-case mantel clock, sympathetically converted to a battery movement with its innards removed. I'm delighted with it, even though I had my heart set on a chiming clock. I've now bought an inexpensive Long Wave battery chime (pictured) with four different settings for the type of chime, with the aim of siting it inside the empty clock case. When the batteries go in it starts at 6am, and can be advanced to the correct hour using the Set button. I set it to 12 o'clock and thought I was sorted, enjoying chimes every quarter, but after an hour it fell silent. Being ignorant in these matters, and having no detailed instructions supplied, I'm now wondering whether this battery chime is able to function independently of a clock movement, or whether it has to be somehow attached. There are two blue wires emerging from it and currently going nowhere - are they supposed to attach to a clock movement? My battery dial has a simple AA-battery unit, and I can't see an obvious place to attach wires! Is my ambition pie in the sky? Any advice would be greatly welcome. 

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If you short the two blue wires together, does the unit chime?

I have a similar chime unit that is designed to work with a quartz movement with an hourly trigger switch. 

I'm not aware of any movements or chiming units that chime quarterly.

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