[time-nuts] Car Clock drift - the lowly 32kHz tuning fork crystal specs

Ron Bean time at rbean.users.panix.com
Sun Apr 9 13:04:42 EDT 2017


>In your case, the car sits in an environment that matches their test 
>setup well. In my case �\200� not so much.

FWIW, mine drifts pretty badly. It's in an aftermarket stereo, and I 
don't remember when I bought it (I moved it from my previous car).

I assume that all quartz clocks and watches these days use "inhibition 
conpensation".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_clock#Inhibition_compensation






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