14 Jun 2010

Twin tee oscillator

A twin-tee audio oscillator is a very useful item to have around the shack. Looking around the net for suitable circuit values yesterday I came across this page by G0XAN http://homepage.ntlworld.com/g0xan/twin-t.htm

I shall be using one this week with my CW keyer to send slow CW (QRSS) on 1.2kHz and 8.97kHz. For very slow CW I'll need a much more stable oscillator probably a crystal and digital divider, although many on the "Dreamers Band" are using a DDS source.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Howdy,

I see the twin-t oscillator information on the G0XAN site is incomplete.

In the drawing of the twin-t oscillator embedded in your post, the following sets the frequency:

R1=R2=Rx
R3=Rx/K
C2=C3=Cx
C1=KCx
F=1/(2*PI*Rx*Cx)
K>2

See Here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RC_oscillator

Here is a better (IMHO) albeit more complex circuit:
www.discovercircuits.com/Andy/Twin-Toscillator.pdf

73's David WB4ONA

crystal oscillator said...

Impressive with thanks!