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Author Topic: Cardinal Components to discontinue programmable oscillators  (Read 1867 times)

Offline redhat

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This came in today from Digikey. https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/0/CPPC1-HT7PP-ND  It appears they are EOL'ing their entire through-hole line.

Epson has a similar product that is still in production.  https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/0/SGR-8002DB-SHB-ND
As does ECS https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/ecs-inc/ECS-P145-BX/ECS-P145-BX-ND/965972

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« Last Edit: June 01, 2020, 1756 UTC by redhat »
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Re: Cardinal Components to discontinue programmable oscillators
« Reply #1 on: June 01, 2020, 1927 UTC »
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... Might indeed be worth checking out, especially if Digikey can do the programming on their end. Thus far, the only thing that I don't like is the +/-50PPM rating, as I'd want something to be a bit tighter in FREQ tolerance. Thanks for the heads-up!
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Re: Cardinal Components to discontinue programmable oscillators
« Reply #2 on: June 01, 2020, 2109 UTC »
50ppm is about normal for those parts over their entire temperature range.  Most low powers are quite off frequency anyway, using surplus crystals and the like.  For the ultimate in precision, you could always go GPS, or rubidium  8)

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Re: Cardinal Components to discontinue programmable oscillators
« Reply #3 on: June 03, 2020, 0857 UTC »
Yes saw that and I do use them and have a programmer. The programmed parts are cheaper than blanks, good you can program them twice!

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Re: Cardinal Components to discontinue programmable oscillators
« Reply #4 on: June 04, 2020, 1923 UTC »
digikey does program them, and has 'em to you in 3 days. Cost is $4 including programming.
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