[time-nuts] Improving the stability of crystal oscillators
Didier Juges
didier at cox.net
Wed Oct 10 19:24:33 EDT 2007
I bought 10kohm nominal NTC thermistors from Digikey, P/N 490-4653-ND. They
are very small, 1/10th of an inch long or so.
I have used those (or similar parts) in projects both at home and at work
(in military equipment...) for about 15 years.
Didier KO4BB
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> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Improving the stability of crystal
> oscillators
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> In a message dated 10/10/2007 11:13:21 Pacific Daylight Time,
> jra at febo.com
> writes:
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> >We first built a small proportional heater circuit that we
> could shove
> >in next to the crystal, and that worked OK. We finally found a
> >source for thermistors spot welded to a spring clip that
> would mount
> >snugly directly to the crystal case. With 12 volts applied, these
> >heated the crystals very nicely. With the heaters, we were able to
> >keep the systems running year round with about 1/10 the
> service calls.
>
> Hi John,
>
> interesting anecdote!
>
> Would you know if the thermistors are still available? Who made them?
>
> Thanks
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