[time-nuts] Re: hydrogen rich environment and oscillators

[ericsp at gmail.com]

This is true and was proven by experimentation. But I believe it was a
Helium atmosphere not Hydrogen. The He poisoned the MEMS oscillator in both
phones and watches. Fault time was about 30 minutes recovery time was about
3 days. Concentrations were small enough that and employee filling party
balloons at a store had a dead I phone for a while. 

Eric

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From: Poul-Henning Kamp via time-nuts <time-nuts at lists.febo.com> 
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2022 10:10 AM
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
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Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk>
Subject: [time-nuts] Re: hydrogen rich environment and oscillators

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Lux, Jim via time-nuts writes:

> Does anyone have any information on what happens to hermetic TCXOs 
> when they're in a hydrogen rich atmosphere?

What kind of hydrogen concentration are we talking about ?

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