02-09-2014, 11:29 PM
A subsidiary thought.
Going back in time to when this whole issue of "don't overheat your crystal!
" was so obviously such an important consideration in the design of crystal oscillators, you'd have thought that the crystal manufacturers would have stated a maximum amount of r.f. power / r.f. current that a given crystal could withstand - similar to the wattage rating of a Zener diode, for example. But I've never come upon such a rating, either by a manufacturer explicitly, or implicitly in a circuit design.
Has anyone else?
Al. / Sept. 3, 2014 //
Going back in time to when this whole issue of "don't overheat your crystal!
" was so obviously such an important consideration in the design of crystal oscillators, you'd have thought that the crystal manufacturers would have stated a maximum amount of r.f. power / r.f. current that a given crystal could withstand - similar to the wattage rating of a Zener diode, for example. But I've never come upon such a rating, either by a manufacturer explicitly, or implicitly in a circuit design.Has anyone else?
Al. / Sept. 3, 2014 //
