[time-nuts] Question on crystal jumps

SAIDJACK at aol.com SAIDJACK at aol.com
Thu Oct 23 18:29:45 UTC 2008


Nice plots Brooke,
 
you can see the immediate loop compensation for the g-sensitivity. These  EFC 
steps are similar to what crystal jumps would look like.
 
The question is: does the probability of seeing jumps on an OCXO  change with 
the rotation/orientation of the OCXO. I suspect it does have some  effect.
 
bye,
Said
 
 
In a message dated 10/23/2008 09:56:53 Pacific Daylight Time,  
brooke at pacific.net writes:

All  kinds of things effect the crystal including gravity.  Some time ago I  
wrote a Labview program to look at the control voltage then rotated the  
PRS10 
resting it on each of four faces,  see:
http://www.prc68.com/I/Images/FC_ROT.jpg
So, just as gravity  effects pendulum clocks, it's also effecting crystal 
oscillators, just on  a smaller scale.





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