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Old November 6th 08, 03:21 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.boatanchors
Scott Dorsey Scott Dorsey is offline
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Default Help: Pin info ERC Oven Crystal

Larry McGee wrote:
Hello and thanks for the read. I have an ERC (Electronic Research Co.)
Oven-Crystal in an 8 pin octal base can.
Does anyone has a lead to a site where I could find which pins are for the
115V AC heater, +V and it's ground and at what voltage range to make the
1MHz xtal oscillate, and which pin for it's output.


An ohmmeter and a bridge will tell you what you need to know. The two
pins that have DC resistance between them are for the heater. You should
know that not all of these have 115VAC coils, a lot of them have lower
voltage DC ones.

The two pins that go to the crystal will have a higher capacitance between
them than the other pins, which the capacitance tester function the DMM
will tell you. If you have a real bridge, you should be able to sweep back
and forth and see an impedance dip at 1 MHz.

DC on heaters is good! It will reduce the amount of 60 Hz jitter.
--scott

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