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Don't know if this is the correct chapter but I wonder if someone could do an online course on using a timing machine. As a noob(yes, I still am) and owning a Witschi Watch Expert, I would really appreciate a course or video for this as I am still very much looking for more guidance and knowledge how to use theis and interprete the readings.

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thanks clockboy....great info. Just wondered if there would be enough interest for a live session on this...


Level 2 is still being developed and will be available in August. It contains a section on regulating and timing.

I do plan on building a timing machine mini-course which explains how to use a timing machine for fault finding as well as dynamic poising. But yes, the focus is building the main course at the moment.


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Thanks Mark, really looking forward to the mini-course....I recently joined a "webinar", a live seminar with 100 participants all over the world, it is awesome to follow a seminar in an interactive way like that.

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