Thanks for your interesting replies.
What I am actually trying to do is the following:
I bough a small ocxo (size of half a ping-pong ball) that performs well
(Abracon / AOCJY3_B 10Mhz)
Reaching about 5*10E-11 kind of MDEV at low point ("kind of"… because a I use
an HP52132a as input to Timelab)
But it’s frequency is slowly drifting with time, with a quasi linear slope.
I wondered if placing it in a third ovenized enclosure could improve things.
I tried a few experiments but seems that the temp needs to be very accurately
controlled.
Any similar experience ?
Could you suggest papers describing high performance analog or digital
controllers ?
Thx,
Gilles.
> Le 19 mai 2018 à 16:09, Bob kb8tq <[email protected]> a écrit :
>
> Hi
>
> One key point about the need for “zero gradient”:
>
> Crystals and many other components are quite sensitive to thermal gradients.
> Very small
> fractions of a degree (as a gradient ) can have significant impact on the
> frequency of an
> oscillator.
>
> One of many “interesting things” about fiddling about OCXO’s.
>
> The equally frustrating thing about this is that unless you can tease kind
> paper authors
> into posting things ( thanks Rick !!) the papers are behind pay walls. I
> pretty much despise
> that practice. Referencing papers that send people off to spend money ….not
> so much.
>
> Bob
>
>> On May 19, 2018, at 12:03 AM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> In my experience, the oven temperature controller is rarely
>> the determining factor for static oven performance. This article
>> explains what the real determining factors are:
>>
>> http://www.karlquist.com/oven.pdf
>>
>> An analog oven temperature controller will be limited in
>> its dynamics by how much capacitance you are able to
>> design with. Digital controllers get around this as well
>> as having the capability of double integration for much
>> better transient response.
>>
>> Rick
>>
>> On 5/18/2018 11:03 AM, Gilles Clement wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I am trying to improve performance of an OCXO.
>>> Could you point me at a good design of a high resolution oven temperature
>>> controler please ? Preferably analog.
>>> Thx much,
>>> Gilles.
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