Re: replace XTAL with Crystal?

[Lostgallifreyan <no-one@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Spehro Pefhany <speffSNIP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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> On Thu, 04 May 2006 20:57:39 -0700, the renowned Don Bowey
> <dbowey@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>On 5/4/06 5:51 PM, in article
>>445a9430$0$29303$88260bb3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Daniel"
>><dxmm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Geoff wrote:
>>>> Tek wrote:
>>>>> I want to change the clock value in a device.
>>>>> I know the unit can handle it but I wanted to ask if anyone know
>>>>> if there will be an issue.
>>>>> The current clock generator is an Xtal... I cannot find the
>>>>> correct frequency XTAL but crystals are easy to get.
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks for any advice!
>>>>
>>>> If you don't know that xtal is a common abbreviation for crytal,
>>>> then by what basis have you decided that you want to change it,
>>>> that the unit can 'handle it', and you have the technical skill to
>>>> do it ?
>>>>
>>>> geoff
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Good question, Geoff, but what's more worrying is that the places
>>> Tek is looking for XTALs/Crystals don't seem to indicate that they
>>> are the same thing!
>>
>>Your observation is pointless;  XTAL and crystal *are* the same.
>>
>>On the other hand, you can buy a xtal/crystal oscillator that is more
>>than just the xtal/crystal.
>
> Could you subsitute an OSC?
>
>
> Best regards,
> Spehro Pefhany

Isn't OSC just short for Oscillator and thus horribly unspecific? In
practise it might mean they are using a plastic encapsulated ceramic
(probably piezo electric) element instead of a canned crystal. Maybe less
accurate, but I don't know.