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Reply-To: "fred bartoli"
From: "fred bartoli"
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Subject: Re: 100Hz from 25.6kHz crystal.
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 17:35:38 +0100
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Marc H.Popek a écrit dans le message :
PApH9.37691$vM1.2952231@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> Hey wait a minute. If you needed to divide these clocks down to say 1 Hz.
> the 4 MHz crystal would provide a stability gain of about 100 since the
> crystal is basically a 30 PPM crystal at 4 MHz and when you divide the
error
> divides as well, so both these crystal divided down to a common reference
> then the 4 MHz crystal will be way better!
>
The answer is obvioulsy no.
Think about it again John.
The frequency accuracy (frequency error/frequency) will remain exactly the
same, before and after the divider.
Fred.
> Marc
> "John Fields" wrote in message
> news:3df1ec26.12821553@news.texas.net...
> > On Tue, 3 Dec 2002 16:05:03 -0000, "John Jardine"
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> > >Yes ... The watch crystals keep 'customer acceptable' good time.
> > >Xtal wise, the watch manufacturers are limited in what they can choose
to
> > >use and this is set by the power required by the xtal oscillator
circuit
> and
> > >the following binary divider chains needed to get down to 1HZ. This
> results
> > >in the 32768Hz compromise.
> > >Compare this 32768Hz timekeeping, against that of the clock in your
auto,
> > >where the designers didn't have to worry about power consumption.
> > >The vehicle clock will invariably be fitted with a higher frequency
4Mhz
> > >xtal. This xtal is naturally much more stable over time and temperature
> and
> > >results in about 10X better timekeeping!.
> > ---
> > I've got the data sheets for an Epson C-2 type 32768Hz and an Epson
> > CA-310 4MHz crystal in front of me and here are some interesting
> > spec's:
> >
> > TYPE FREQ TOL TEMPCO AGING SHOCK
> > C-2 20ppm -0.04ppm/°C² 5ppm/yr 5ppm
> > CA-310 30ppm +/- 0.714ppm/°C 5ppm/yr 10ppm
> >
> > In the tempco column, the C-2 data is exactly as taken from their
> > data sheet, while the CA-310 is represented as +/-50ppm over the
> > range of -10 to 60°C. on their data sheet. I don't really
> > understand the notation for the C-2 tempco and that's the only
> > reference they make to it on the data sheet, but if it really _is_
> > 0.04ppm, then it seems the C-2 is clearly a better crystal at
> > 32768Hz than the CA-310 is at 4MHz! Here's Epson's URL for
> > crystals:
> >
>
http://www.eea.epson.com/go/Prod_Admin/Categories/EEA/QD/Crystals/mhzThruhol
>
e_Crystals/displayItem?itemId=CA-301&categoryId=EEA.QD.Crystals.mhzThruhole_
> Crystals
> >
> >
> > John Fields
> > Professional circuit designer
> > http://www.austininstruments.com
> >
> >
>
>
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