[time-nuts] Thermal impact on OCXO

Chris Caudle chris at chriscaudle.org
Mon Nov 7 12:45:33 EST 2016


On Mon, November 7, 2016 11:41 am, Chris Caudle wrote:
> On Mon, November 7, 2016 11:20 am, Bob Stewart wrote:
>> Either then OCXO is making up for the temperature change
>> by increasing the temperature
>
> Isn't that the entire point of an OCXO?

Actually, that is not very precise language on my part.  The OCXO does not
 increase the temperature, it increases the heat input to the oven to
counteract the decrease in ambient temperature, i.e. attempts to keep the
internal oven temperature constant.

-- 
Chris Caudle




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