[sdiy] 440Hz Reference Oscillator.

Tom Arnold xyzzy at sysabend.org
Tue Jun 6 03:53:42 CEST 2006


On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 07:58:50PM -0500, Cole Groff wrote:
> Does anyone know where I could find a simple circuit to built a
> reference oscillator for tuning?

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/henry01/a440_oscillator/a440_oscillator.htm

You can use fairly easy techniques to "bend" the crystal a little and get it
even closer to 440hz.  You'd only need to bend it around 320hz to get it
spot-on.

On second glance this looks so much easier then what I worked up that I dont
know why I didnt go with this.  *sigh*

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