[time-nuts] Re: Is SC the most stable cut for lowest phase noise?

[Lux, Jim]

On 6/9/22 8:53 PM, Bob kb8tq via time-nuts wrote:
> Hi
>
> There happen to be *some* AT cut based OCXO’s that beat the typical
> SC cut on warmup … just saying …. :)
>
> Bob
>
On the subject of rapid warm up. I suppose if you had a need, one could 
dump as much power as you need into the heater. Turn on oscillator, 
lights in room dim for a few moments.

But everything is a tradeoff, and I suspect that over time "standard 
designs" sort of migrate to particular ratios of things like peak vs 
average heater current, etc.  Especially in applications driven by 
design rules for things like "maximum current per connector pin" or 
"component derating" - I suspect that drives things more than the 
fundamental physics, in most cases.  Why are diodes rated at 1 or 3 
Amps?  And not 2?