[time-nuts] Inside a CTS 1960017 OCXO

Bob Camp kb8tq at n1k.org
Sat Feb 27 14:19:00 EST 2016


Hi

I believe you will find that the crystal in the picture is either an HC-45 or HC-43 sized 
package. 

Bob

> On Feb 27, 2016, at 12:17 PM, Graham / KE9H <ke9h.graham at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dan:
> 
> Thanks for photo documenting the tear down of the CTS oven oscillators.
> I bought a few, and was interested in what was inside.
> I was surprised to see an HC-6 style crystal, but at least it was a
> cold-weld case.
> 
> I note that you did some design work for Adafruit.
> Curiosity question:
> Did they solicit you, or did you solicit them for the work?
> Or did they just see and copy your stuff on Oshpark?
> 
> --- Graham / KE9H
> 
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Daniel Watson <watsondaniel3 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm sure many of you are tracking the cheap CTS 10MHz OCXOs available on
>> eBay right now. I purchased a case of them, and decided to crack one open.
>> I took pictures along the way, thinking that might be interesting to the
>> list. Here is the blog post if you are interested:
>> 
>> 
>> http://syncchannel.blogspot.com/2016/02/10mhz-ocxo-teardown-cts-1960017.html
>> 
>> Comments on the internal construction of the OCXO are welcome. It seems
>> pretty straightforward inside though.
>> 
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> Dan W.
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