[time-nuts] Super stable BVA Quartz resonators... BVA??

[Didier Juges]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com 
> [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On Behalf Of Bernd T-Online
> Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2007 8:44 AM
> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Super stable BVA Quartz resonators... BVA??
> 
> Not the best approach for measuring temperatures ;-) At the 
> other hand, the current consumption of the 10544A decreases 
> fairly linear with temperature, so this is a better (but 
> rather slow) temperature sensor, which would even work 
> without the quartz...

See what current versus temperature looks like:
http://www.ko4bb.com/Test_Equipment/HP10811-Current.png

Didier KO4BB