Re: Question about oscillators

From: Daniel Kahlin (tlr_at_stacken.kth.se)
Date: 2006-07-17 15:19:13

On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Gabriele Bozzi wrote:

> Well,
>
> The scope shows a quasi-triangular 5Mhz signal, since I  understand I
> hae to de-solder the little b....rd it's time to go downtown and buy a
> new one.. At least I know if the problem lies on the crystal or on
> something outside.

Maybe it is not a crystal.  It could be a VCO.
Do you have a part number (=all markings)?

/Daniel

> On 7/17/06, Daniel Kahlin <tlr@stacken.kth.se> wrote:
>> On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Gabriele Bozzi wrote:
>> 
>> > the problem is that I measure a 5mhz signal on the output of the
>> > crystal, maybe some capacitors went nuts and altered the impedence of
>> > the clock divider (although I cannot see anything on a mounted device,
>> > I should de-solder the dammn thing..).
>> 
>> You couldn't get a 4 MHz crystal to resonate at 5 MHz at all.  Something
>> else is wrong.  Have you scoped the signal?   Maybe it's some other signal
>> that interfers with it?
>> 
>> /Daniel
>> 
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