Thanks for those. I went over them pretty carefully and what I am proposing is not covered by either although that would not protect me from a debilitating patent lawsuit.
It does seem like the kind of thing Symmetricom would try so I am inclined to believe based on Bob Camp's reply that they tested it or already knew that it would not work well enough to bother with. On Fri, 13 May 2016 11:37:53 -0400, you wrote: >https://www.google.com/patents/US6166608 "Thermo-electric cooled oven >controlled crystal oscillator " > >http://www.google.com/patents/US8653897 "Devices, systems, and methods for >controlling the temperature of resonant elements " _______________________________________________ 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.