Hello Bjoern, that would work well for static acceleration (tilt) but for vibration resistance the crystal must be low-g, or complexly compensated with wide loop bandwidths such as the FEI papers describe. Initial Calibration would also be tricky, and having an algorithm to measure one result (frequency) against five inputs (aging, tempco, X, Y, Z acceleration) and more (crystal jumps, retrace) is also quite sophisticated :) Also, Mems, or other accelerometers have inherent noise, and to compensate a crystal that has say +/-2E-09 per g sensitivity means one would have to add up to +/-2E-09 in offset statically. That's a lot of deviation, and any noise from the mems would find its way into the Allan Variance/phase-noise. For vibration compensation, the compensation could easily go up to +/-1.2E-08 and more (for up to +/-6G vibration to be canceled). Very interesting topic, and I would love to hear what folks think about this, or have come up with in terms of solutions. At the high-end of the spectrum of the technology is the gun-barrel launched artillery shell with crystal oscillator built-in, that has to withstand and operate with 10,000 to 20,000 g acceleration! One caveat for the artillery shell: commercial GPS would likely not work due to the 1000 Knots verlocity limit. bye, Said In a message dated 7/10/2009 16:53:23 Pacific Daylight Time, b...@lysator.liu.se writes:
Hi Said & Tom, The below url links some "low-g"-osc papers. http://www.freqelec.com/tech_lit.html Said, did you contemplate adding a cheap 3d-accelerometer and try to teach your holdover algorithms use the accelerometer measurements in the same way as your temperature measurements? -- Björn > Hello Tom, > > this plot looks very similar to our standard double oven units. We > have our low-g option, which reduces the deviation to about 2- 3E-10 > per g, they work great but do cost more than standard units.. > Coincidentally they also reduce sensitivity to vibration and "tapping" > by 5x to 10x... I wish we could offer them at the same price, but they > are very difficult to manufacture. That's why no one uses them by > default in their product. > > Bye, Said > > > > From iPhone > > On Jul 10, 2009, at 15:51, "Tom Van Baak" <t...@leapsecond.com> wrote: > >>> One is do crystal oscillators change frequency when they >>> are turned. The answer to that is yes. This gravitational >>> acceleration effect is rather huge, parts in ten to the 9th >>> or so, and anyone can see this. This is why you never >>> touch, bump, or move, or rotate a laboratory frequency >>> standard (this includes GPSDO and cesium standards). >> >> And to give you a *picture* instead of just numbers... Here is >> a plot showing frequency changes in an OCXO (this from a >> free-running Thunderbolt GPSDO) over the span of one hour. >> Every 5 minutes or so I rotated the rectangular box on some >> axis by 90 degrees. >> >> <http://www.leapsecond.com/pages/ocxo-2g/TBolt-2g-6axis.gif> >> >> You can see that the sudden frequency jumps due to change >> in g-force on the crystal are about -0.5e-9 to +1.5 e-9, which >> is 100x the normal frequency noise for this oscillator (about >> 2e-11 pk-pk or about 2e-12 adev). >> >> Hopefully this result won't come as a big surprise to anyone; the >> so-called "2g turn-over" spec is common for quality oscillators. >> Again, this is why when you enter the world of precision timing >> at 1e-10 and below you tend not to ever touch your standards. >> >> Now if one of you happened to have a fully-programmable 3-axis >> turntable and a couple of hours you could slowly create a most >> beautiful high-resolution 3D color plot showing the precise shift >> in frequency as a function of axis. >> >> /tvb >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com >> To unsubscribe, go to >> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.