FW: SB-101 Crystal Nightmare!

[digital-conjurers at ADELPHIA.NET]

I'll second the comments below.  An awful lot depends on the various conditions the Xtal is "seeing"; load, capacitance, reactance, etc, etc.  That's why Bliley designs their holders/containers/ovens so nicely.

-Lin/KJ6EF

At 03:59 AM 08/28/2006, you wrote:
>Crystals will do some very oidd things at times. Remember,
>it's just a hunk of stone. There are times when we may 
>write off a given crystal as being "bad" because it fails to 
>start in some particular circuit. Yet you take the same 
>crystal in some other circuit and it will wrok perfectly.
>
>I have seen many odd examples. Crystals that will work 
>OK in a transistor oscillator and not in a tube one or 
>vice  versa. Then some other crystal wlll work fine in both.
>
>A lot of the time we are too quick to place blame on 
>the wrong element of a circuit when these things occur!

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