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Old February 28th 05, 08:23 PM
Tim Shoppa
 
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Default Using non-overtone crystal in overtone mode?

Are "overtone" crystals cut differently than "fundamental" crystals?
Or are they just specified differently?

In particular, say I took a garden-variety 20MHz fundamental
microprocessor crystal and instead used it at its fifth overtone,
trying to hit 100 MHz. The LC network is there to make sure that it's
on its fifth overtone. Will this "misuse" mean that the oscillator
will be harder to start up, less stable, more noisy, ???, than a
crystal oscillator made out of a real overtone crystal? I don't mind
if I "miss" 100 MHz by a several tens or hundreds of ppm, as long as
it's stable there.

If anyone knows of a place that ships off-the-shelf 100 MHz fifth or
seventh overtone crystals, I can avoid this whole exercise.... :-)

Tim.

 
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