Hi

All the numbers I gave assume you are starting from a 3rd / 5th at 10 MHz. 

Bob

On Nov 2, 2013, at 1:30 AM, David McGaw <[email protected]> wrote:

> This all seems to be forgetting that the crystals are usually operated at 3rd 
> or 5th harmonic.  The crystal in a 10811A is 10 MHz/3rd overtone.  A high 
> quality 5 MHz/5th overtone crystal is really a 1 MHz fundamental, a large 
> piece of quartz.  Running at a harmonic greatly reduces the influence of the 
> package.
> 
> David
> 
> 
> On 11/2/13 1:07 AM, Bob Camp wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> The real answer is that nobody knows. The economics essentially make finding 
>> out very expensive. Q most certainly goes up, I don’t think anybody disputes 
>> that. The questions about flicker / ADEV all revolve around small blank 
>> parts with major edge sensitivity issues. They also probably were not 
>> running in a very good oven. Unless somebody with very deep pockets decides 
>> they need to find out, it’s going to be an un-answered question.
>> 
>> Bob
>> 
>> 
>> On Nov 1, 2013, at 11:41 PM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On 11/1/2013 8:28 PM, Bob Camp wrote:
>>>> HI
>>>> 
>>>> If you doubled the diameter of the blank each time you cut the frequency 
>>>> in half, all sorts of nice things might happen. If you start with a 1/2” 
>>>> blank in at 10 MHz that goes to 1” at 5 MHz and 2” at 2.5 MHz. Around 1 
>>>> MHz you would get to a 5” blank.
>>>> 
>>>> Good luck finding high grade quartz bars to cut 5” (or even 1”) blanks out 
>>>> of. You are going to have to go back to the autoclave fixtures at the very 
>>>> least. Since growth is (at best) linear you cost of quartz will scale with 
>>>> the size of the blank. I’d bet it scales a bit more than that if you want 
>>>> to keep the material at a high level of performance.
>>> You've explained the excuses vendors give for not making full
>>> size crystals.  But the question is, given these realities,
>>> does this reduce the theoretical advantage of the lower frequency
>>> and by how much?
>>> 
>>> Rick Karlquist N6RK
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