[sdiy] VCO drift

[Ken Stone]

>LOL !!! The single schmitt trigger oscillator isn't stable for anything...
>
>The only thing you can guarantee is that it 'will' oscillate.
>
>I designed one in as a clock circuit... once.  Guess what happened when I
>got some gates from National and some from Motorola...
>
>then guess what happened when the next batch came in   :^P


Motorola schmitts have way different thresholds to other brands. That's
bitten me before too. Nowdays, I don't think any two brands are really
interchangeable.

Still, they are great for noise-boxes like the super psycho.

Ken
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