Yes, you can. Or a wrist-watch even. ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
I found that if you have a 1-mHz crystal, you can build a 1-mhz oscillator very easily. Just use a 555 timer IC and build a standard oscillator.... BUT, instead of using a timing CAPACITOR, just place the 1-mHz CRYSTAL in that spot instead. Not only will you have an oscillator that is NEAR 1 megahertz... it will be LOCKED onto that frequency. If memory serves me, I believe you can find 1-mhz crystals inside of many remote controll (infrared) transmitters.
It would be easier to just buy at 1mhz osc. On the surplus market they are not very expensive. Finding that exact value is pretty random. And on the one's you find you have not other spec's on them. There are ways to tune some osc. You might look into that.
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10 years ago
Yes, you can. Or a wrist-watch even.
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L
10 years ago
I found that if you have a 1-mHz crystal, you can build a 1-mhz oscillator very easily. Just use a 555 timer IC and build a standard oscillator.... BUT, instead of using a timing CAPACITOR, just place the 1-mHz CRYSTAL in that spot instead. Not only will you have an oscillator that is NEAR 1 megahertz... it will be LOCKED onto that frequency. If memory serves me, I believe you can find 1-mhz crystals inside of many remote controll (infrared) transmitters.
Answer 10 years ago
Yes, or build one around a CMOS inverter.
Steve
10 years ago
It would be easier to just buy at 1mhz osc. On the surplus market they are not very expensive. Finding that exact value is pretty random. And on the one's you find you have not other spec's on them. There are ways to tune some osc. You might look into that.
Answer 10 years ago
And buying something is always the best way to get it "soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooon"".
Time and money are fungible, to a limited extent.
10 years ago
Is there a full moon tonight?