Crystal xtal circuits

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ecjohnny

Joined Jul 16, 2005
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Hey.. i have a box of crystals lying around and i do not know what kind of simple circuit i can build with it.


Is there any fun/simple circuit i can build using/with crystal shown in the picture? I am not familiar with xtal.. theoretically i know what it is from google and the circuit that uses xtal i search online is too complicated. I guess if there isn't then i will just lay them out and practice my soldering. :rolleyes:

Thanks:)
 

MrChips

Joined Oct 2, 2009
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You have to search and figure out where one would need a 24.576MHz oscillator.
Dividing this by 4096 gives exactly 6000Hz.

Hence if you use this crystal on a microcontroller, it would allow you to generate standard time-base references such as 1Hz, 60Hz etc.

This clock crystal is found on audio samplers.
 
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