Colpitts Crystal Oscillator
Contents
Features
- Colpitts Crystal Oscillator
- Useful for binning crystals
- Hand select close values from a pile of crystals
- Useful for design of crystal filters
- Made from junk box parts
- (2) 2N3904 transistors
- Standard value 1/4W resistors
- Design from Experimental Methods in RF Design - Fig 7.69
- Built by others (W2AEW, IMSAIGuy, etc)
- Runs from 4V to >16V
- May run at higher voltages, didn't tempt fate
- 15mA with 4.44 MHz crystal at 12V
Tested With
- 4.433 MHz crystal - worked
- 16 MHz crystal - worked
- 27 MHz crystal - didn't work
Prototype
- Cut square PCB material for raised pads
- Build on single side Copper clad PCB material
- Large ground plane
Scope Caps
UUT = 4.4433 MHz crystal
- Rigol DS1054Z - 50 MHz scope (100 MHz mod)
- UltraScope
- 8 Digits Frequency Counter shows 4.432298 MHz
- Waveform triangular
Prototype
SMT Build
tinySA Measurements of SMT Build
- SMT build
- 12V power
- 4.43 MHz crystal
- Measured +8.6dBm
- 40 dBm attenuator to protect tinySA
- 8 Digits Frequency Counter shows 4.432298 MHz
- 4 to 30 MHz scan
- Rich even and odd harmonic content
- -60 dBm down outside of harmonics
- 4 to 100 MHz
W2AEW Video
- Wes Haywood EMiRFD circuit