I am finding 60 kHz crystals listed as "AT26" type. I know AT is a type of cut of crystals which defines how it varies with temperature and other parameters. But I've never heard of AT26. Is that a package style or is it a refinement on the AT cut? I found one page that lists AT14, AT26 and AT38. They have some slightly different specs, but also come in different packages. I don't know if this means the identifiers refer to the package or the style of cut which means the crystals are different sizes which then fit in different packages.
AT-26 is a cylinderical package designation for small AT cut crystals. Note the minimum frequency for AT-26 is 6MHz.
However, something is wrong here. I'm seeing 60KHz crystals for sale on eBay and Aliexpress in AT26 packages as "quarts column resonators". My guess(tm) is that a "quartz column resonator" is half of a tuning fork, crammed into an AT-26 package. Other than the for sale items, I can't find any specs on such a device.
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Useta be, in the post-WWII military surplus shops, you could buy crystals down in the low kHz, and package styles even for ham and CB radios followe d military designations. I remember pulling and regrinding FT243 rocks to g et frequencies that weren't commercially available. You had to make them sl ightly convex, but not too much.
These days it seems each mfgr and vendor has their own idea about package nomenclature.
Yes, but will it fit inside an AT-26 case, which is 2mm dia by 6mm long? I don't think so.
Back to AT-26. I think this is the relevent patent which shows the rod like column resonator: "Mounting for rod-like crystal oscillators"
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This is a great clip on the subject. These old military films are so clear and precise (in the days before the dumbing down of the language, obviously).
Having to plow through data sheets to see if a device from manufacturer A is compatible with pads designed for manufacturer B's device is frustrating. Particularly in a world where a SOT-23 is a SOT-23, so you know it can be done right.
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That's not what you said. You complained about multiple names for the same package. An AT26 is an AT26 in the crystal world. What you said would be like the ?SOP, MSOP and ?MAX all having the same footprint, or the TQFP and the VQFP having the same footprint. Sometimes it seems like every FPGA maker uses different names for BGA packages including their "generic" name and their proprietary name, both different from other manufacturers. There are many other examples in the transistor domain as well. So this issue is not limited to the crystal makers.
Put in a RT9818 recently. (Or maybe that wasn't the one, but it was a something.) "SOT-23-3" on the datasheet and on Digikey.
Flagged by DFM. Whaaa?
Turns out they use a slightly larger package. After a quick correction to the footprint, sent off for proto. Perfect solder joints first time.
A lot of Japanese parts get around it, I think, by calling it something meaningless like "SOP-3". Of which, the Panasonic ones I think are usually SOT-23 compliant after all, but YMMV.
I was given some old handheld barcode scanners to play with. They have so me weird 4-pin and 8-pin SMD chips that don't match any outlines I've ever seen, with some leads fatter than others (not the middle pars either like o ld-fangled power-handlers). I suspect they're proprietary as their markings don't show up e. g. on the SMD Codebook web page:
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By the way; the 3-pin laser diode packages are unmarked and the driver ci rcuits are... weird. I know that LEDs can be used as photodiodes and was wo ndering if laser diodes can too. My idea is to shine light into the package aperture and read induced voltage on the pins, then drive them oppositely to see which way lights up the laser. If I cook the built-in photodiode I w on't care...
(I mention this here because alt.lasers is moribund and there don't seem to be any other active laser-specific groups.)
Most of the rest of the bits (SMD components I *can* read, connectors etc .) are salvageable, but I'll have to pitch the chips as unusable.
Welllll... what do they connect to? Trace the circuit a bit? If they're doing power stuff, that should be pretty obvious (caps, inductors, fat traces around), or signal processing (weird op-amps?), or driving (motors, galvos, lasers), or etc. There are limits to how much you can glean from a cursory glance (I wouldn't expect a mixer to be very obvious), but maybe it's something.
If it's a multilayer board, the "cursory" information is even more limited, unfortunately...
Hmm, certainly oughta...
It's not the wrong ways 'round, though. Same ways. Think of it this way: a diode generates voltage up to a level limited by its own current draw. Photocurrent is balanced by forward current. If it were backwards, what would the voltage be set by? It could build up to nearly breakdown voltage, or, well, limited by nu*h/e anyway. But that's not the observation: solar cells don't depend on the light energy (above a minimum threshold, the bandgap), the excess is absorbed, and the practical maximum output voltage is determined by Vf.
Also means the V(I) curve of a solar cell is more-or-less the V(I) curve of the diode, which is why peak power point is a modest fraction of Vf, and not simply half, as a resistor would give.
And you reverse-bias a photodiode to suck all the photocurrent charge carriers out of the junction, and reduce junction capacitance. You're putting work into it, this time (the light is dissipated as heat, plus the external power supply delivers power to the leakage current through the junction): a fair sacrifice for high bandwidth.
And you... nevermind, I've repeated enough photofacts for one night!...
Perhaps it was an SC-59(TO-236) package? I can't tell the difference between SOT-23 and SC-59 without my calipers:
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One brand of scanner has one pin of the diode connected to a proprietary Metrologic chip (MLPN26319) that doesn't seem to have ever had published da tasheets and the other to the OUT pin of a plain old TL555C.
The other brand's diode connects to one of the unidentifiable 8-pin SMD c hips I mentioned earlier and to an AMI(!) microcontroller, also with no ava ilable datasheet.
Fairly clearly the first unit drives the diode with the 555 and the other with the SMD chip, now that I'm not too tired to think about it. At least n ow I can figure the driving polarity, voltage, and current of one of the di odes from what the 555 can deliver.
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Nah, only two-sided, easy peasy. These things are practically antiques am ong scanners.
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