[time-nuts] Poor man's oven

Clint Jay cjaysharp at gmail.com
Mon Jun 5 05:16:24 EDT 2017


There's a few 'OCXO' designs out there, I'm not qualified to comment on the
timenutty quality of them but someone else mentioned Hans Summers offerings
and I would offer Roman Black's simple design (if it's not been mentioned
already):

http://www.romanblack.com/xoven.htm

I've no idea if it's useful but it's ridiculously simple to implement.

Both Hans' and Roman's designs are 'on the list' of things to try for
myself at some point.

On 5 June 2017 at 09:56, Stephen Tompsett <stephen at tompsett.net> wrote:

> Not quite as simple as the PTC, an alternative may be:
>
> http://shop.kuhne-electronic.de/kuhne/en/shop/accessoires/
> crystal-heater/Precision+crystal+heater+40%C2%B0+QH40A/?card=724
>
> No it probably doesn't hold the crystal at it's optimum turn over
> temperature, but it will keep the temperature of a crystal approximately
> constant especially on a windswept hilltop.
>
>
> On 05/06/2017 09:35, Ulf Kylenfall via time-nuts wrote:
> >   The Crystal heater clip wasa Murata "Posistor" soldered onto a clipand
> they were marketed by Murata.
> > I once purchased a small amount of theseand used them as "poor man's
> ovens".
> > Although not perfect by far, they did theirjob and kept my UHF gear
> stable.
> > Murata dropped that product many yearsago and I have not been able to
> findany similar product. The Posistors arelisted by eg. Digi-key but they
> do not stock them.
> > Ulf - SM6GXV
> >
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