Hi A lot will depend on the internal construction of the SMD crystal. You would want to avoid evacuated packages. They will indeed respond much faster than a conventional leaded BAW.
You may be surprised at just how good the tempco is on your junk box crystals. For a good thermometer cut you want something above 10 ppm / C. To get that with an AT bar, you just about have to put it in the dicing saw backwards. Bob -----Original Message----- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Poul-Henning Kamp Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 11:53 AM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Frequency referenced temperature regulator In message <79b9c6dd6ac84dd0b38bc8ca0450d...@vectron.com>, "Bob Camp" writes: >Hi > >The nice thing about a SAW is that you can bond it directly to the surface >being measured. That reduces lag quite a bit. You can do the same by using a modern SMD X-tal... And I don't have ready access to SAW devices, whereas I have tons of Xtals of all sorts in my junkbox. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ 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.