[time-nuts] Old Crystal oven lying around

Dr Bruce Griffiths bruce.griffiths at xtra.co.nz
Fri Nov 17 19:38:19 EST 2006


Magnus Danielson wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have a HP G-69B-2 Z-235 Crystal Oven 100 kHz lying around. I'm considering
> heating it up and run it (just for fun). Operating temperature is 65 C.
>
> Anyone care to share any information on this device? I have no clue which box
> it ever was in or anything. Also, thoughts of suitable oscillator setups?
>
> I should probably have a run-by the network analyzer.
>
> Cheers,
> Magnus
>
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Magnus

Presuming you just have a crystal in an oven, the simplest low phase 
noise oscillator setup is probably the following:
http://www.wenzel.com/pdffiles/xtalosc.pdf

However you will need to have some idea of the desired crystal current.

Bruce



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