On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:51:04 +0100, "Kevin Doyle" wroth:
It's very hard to manufacture a crystal without any overtone modes. A crystal advertised as "overtone" has been cut to emphasize them. It's very likely that a carefully adjusted overtone oscillator will make any crystal into an overtone device.
That connection is both electrical (probably not needed) and mechanical (to take the strain off the fragile leads on the other end).
Jim
Hi all, I have two crystals that I salvaged from two old 56K modems. Im not sure if they are cut for use in over tone mode. Is there some way of knowing or is it dependant on the circuit elements to get the Xtal to oscillate at over tone mode.
The two Xtals have markings as follows PRE 14.31818Mhz, 14.31818 TQG. And both were spot welded or soldered on the top of the casing to the circuit board, is this an earth connection?
Kevin.
This frequency is too low to be an overtone crystal. To operate it as an overtone crystal at 3X the frequency, the oscillator would have to include a tuned circuit at something like 43 MHz. It will not be an exact multiple of the fundamental though. If you actually need 2X or 3X that frequency, run the oscilator at the fundamental, and then through a frequency multiplier ( single transistor)
Tam
frequency.
overtone.
Of course, if he wants a third overtone of that specific frequency, it may be that he needs it because of that frequency. In other words, he wants to do some video work and needs a multiple of 14.31818MHz.
The solution in that case is to look through more junk. Commercial stuff justs multiples of the frequency, so one could either pull a crystal or a full oscillator off some sort of board.
Michael
One word of caution, usually 3rd overtone is not exactly 3x the prime frequency.
However, the difference is very small and probably irrelevant in your case.
Its also usually more difficult to pull the oscillator up or down at 3rd overtone.
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Hello Tam,
Yes, I'll second that. Just run it through a stage that is deliberately non-linear like a transistor without bias but driven hard enough.
Regards, Joerg
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From experience, I can say they will work well at third overtone - close to
3 times the fundamental. If I wanted 5 times, I'd probably buy something cut for the job, but I bet it could be made to work.Roger
For those who don't know what this means, you still need to have the transistor draw base current. You do this by connecting a resistor or RF choke from base to ground. This also assumes the signal is sinusoidal and a couple of volts p-p. For a square wave output, since a square wave already contains a third harmonic, you could just add an LC filter tuned to 3X the oscillator frequency. For a frequency doubler, run the 1X square wave, and a replica of it delayed 1/4 cycle by and RC network into an Exclusive OR gate. The XOR output will be 2X the frequency. Clean that up with a tuned circuit.
Tam
Hello Tam,
In case the drive signal is a bit on the wimpy side you can bias the base just a wee bit higher. Just so that the transistor still doesn't draw any significant current over the expected temperature range. Or remains in class C as the RF guys say.
Regards, Joerg
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