Rick wrote: > > Hmmm, my thoughts on this would be that isn't the crystal biased? If > you connect them together you are going to affect the biasing. What you > want to do is sync them, but if you think about it, I don't see that > happening. If the crystals oscilate, you are going to get current > flowing across the wire in both directions based on the phase > difference, jitter and drift, and its going to cause distortion in the > signal, but not change the phase to be in sync. I could be wrong though > :) If so, let me know :)
What it really needs is to replace all but one crystal with a phase-locked-loop that synchronizes with a main timer. Now if the crystals are rather close in timing already, it seems that a very low capacitance coupling between crystals would be better than direct wiring (and possibly with a metal oxide resistor in series as well). D. Stimits, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Rick > > iriXx wrote: > > > Mark Rages wrote: > > > >> Why don't you just solder over a wire to connect the two crystals? > >> > >> Connect a wire from one leg of the crystal on the first board to the > >> other leg of the crystal on the other board. You only need one wire, > >> but use a shielded on e and ground the shield at one end. > >> > >> Let me know if it works! > >> > > > > thats a great idea, thanks Mark! > > > > i think we're going to look into trying that... it may well be the > > simplest solution. > > > > we'll certainly be writing this up if it works... maybe even writing > > up the experimental results if it doesnt quite get there. i think its > > an idea well worth trying at least.... :o))) > > > > > > many thanks > > > > > > m > > > > -- > > ~~~~~>><:>~~~~ > > iriXx > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > www.iriXx.org > > > > "i'm not here... this isn't happening..." > >
