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JJ wrote:
There is a drop in freq for Pierce and Colpitt after 1 min of startup. Can be 100Hz. Serious enough. That sounds like crystal heating. All of these oscillators can drive the crystal at various drive levels (depending on resistor and capacitor values and/or tank circuit tapping) and different crystals like different drive levels. A tuning-fork type crystal (e.g. 32kHz watch crystal) is being overdriven if the levels are as high as a microwatt. Most HF-range crystals will take hundreds of microwatts to a few milliwatts of drive. Lots of the oscillator circuits in old handbooks are designed around FT-243 crystals, which can take substantially higher drive levels (sometimes the tube oscillator was putting out several watts) than "modern" crystals. And even then those handbook circuits overdrove the crystals to get more power out of the oscillator! By 1950's standards 100Hz of chirp/drift was not a big deal (was probably better than average for most equipment.) Tim. |
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