
With very low harmonic distortion, 2N4416 JFET is suitable to smoothly oscillate in a circuit. On application where low harmonic content is required for a good mixer circuit, JFET local oscillator is very good. Below is the circuit diagram of Low Distortion Oscillator: And here’s the 20 MHz Oscillator Values [...]
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This is a Colpitts-crystal oscillator circuit. It is suitable for low frequency crystal oscillator circuits. Using the 2N3823 JFET, this circuit has excellent stability because the temperature will not vary the 2N3823 JFET circuit loading. Here is the circuit : [Source: National Semiconductor Application Note]
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Bubba oscillator is another example of phase shift oscillator. The Bubba oscillator takes the advantage of quad op-amp package to get 45 degree phase shift for each section. The result is excellent d(phase)/d(t) to get very low frequency drift. Here is the schematic diagram of the circuit: Each RC section give 45 degree [...]
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Ibanez Fat Cat distortion pedal (Ibanez FC-10 Fat Cat Distortion) is good for blues, rock, pop, alternative, but not for metal. You can hear the fat tone even at maximum overdrive. Here is the circuit schematic diagram. You can see the the first transistor 2SC1815/BC546 is configured as voltage follower, giving a [...]
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Quadrature oscillator generate two sine-wave signal, but one signal is shifted 90 degree from the other signal. One output that lead the other called cosine signal, and the other is called sine. Here is the schematic diagram of the circuit: This circuit is another type of pahase shift oscillator, with three phase shifter [...]
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PLL oscillator is used to get very stable frequency woth very low distortion of sine wave output. The stability is equal to crystal-based oscillator, and the low distortion level of the sine wave output is equal to LC based oscillator. The method of PLL control in PLL oscillator is done by adjusting the frequency of [...]
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