[sdiy] Help with oscillator

Tim Ressel madhun2001 at yahoo.com
Sun Apr 12 00:51:13 CEST 2009


Hi all,

I have been humbled by the most simple of circuits: an oscillator. Its one of those crystal oscillators used everywhere. The circuit is here:

http://circuitabbey.com/files/EqualTog_sch.pdf

Its the circuit in the upper left corner: U6. This same circuit worked fine on the first board. I have since swapped the crystal and 18p caps from the working board to the bad one, but no joy. The output at pin 6 has about 4 KHz on it, and pin 1 has no signal at all, just a DC bias. I tried cleaning the board with flux remover. Now even the 4KHz signal is gone. 

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

--TimR



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