[time-nuts] Inside a CTS 1960017 OCXO

[Tom Miller]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Watson" <watsondaniel3 at gmail.com>
To: <time-nuts at febo.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2016 11:48 AM
Subject: [time-nuts] Inside a CTS 1960017 OCXO


> Hi,
>
> I'm sure many of you are tracking the cheap CTS 10MHz OCXOs available on
> eBay right now. I purchased a case of them, and decided to crack one open.
> I took pictures along the way, thinking that might be interesting to the
> list. Here is the blog post if you are interested:
>
> http://syncchannel.blogspot.com/2016/02/10mhz-ocxo-teardown-cts-1960017.html
>
> Comments on the internal construction of the OCXO are welcome. It seems
> pretty straightforward inside though.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Dan W.

Looks like it would use a lot of power in a cold environment. Maybe a second 
oven would be nice. They seem to have marked the turnover temp on the xtal.

Regards