Difference in manufacturing for fundamental tone, 3rd, and 5th overtone crystals
Moin,
I have stumbled over another question I am unable to answer using the
tools I have available: Is there any fundamental difference in manufacturing
fundamental and overtone chrystals. Or to be more precise: is there an
optimization process during manufacturing that makes a crystal more suited
for one of the harmonics than for the others or all crystals similarly
well suited to be used as an fundamental crystal as they are for the 3rd
or 5th overtone?
Attila Kinali
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Hi
Crystals are highly optimized for the specific overtone they are
intended to operate on. In fact, you can fiddle them to the point
that they no longer have a “fundamental” response.
Bob
On Oct 27, 2016, at 6:42 PM, Attila Kinali attila@kinali.ch wrote:
Moin,
I have stumbled over another question I am unable to answer using the
tools I have available: Is there any fundamental difference in manufacturing
fundamental and overtone chrystals. Or to be more precise: is there an
optimization process during manufacturing that makes a crystal more suited
for one of the harmonics than for the others or all crystals similarly
well suited to be used as an fundamental crystal as they are for the 3rd
or 5th overtone?
Attila Kinali
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Hi,
Hmm, such fiddeling could maybe also apply to nearby alternative modes
of the crystals, even if I guess it would be harder to do meaningful
dents on them.
Cheers,
Magnus
On 10/28/2016 01:50 AM, Bob Camp wrote:
Hi
Crystals are highly optimized for the specific overtone they are
intended to operate on. In fact, you can fiddle them to the point
that they no longer have a “fundamental” response.
Bob
On Oct 27, 2016, at 6:42 PM, Attila Kinali attila@kinali.ch wrote:
Moin,
I have stumbled over another question I am unable to answer using the
tools I have available: Is there any fundamental difference in manufacturing
fundamental and overtone chrystals. Or to be more precise: is there an
optimization process during manufacturing that makes a crystal more suited
for one of the harmonics than for the others or all crystals similarly
well suited to be used as an fundamental crystal as they are for the 3rd
or 5th overtone?
Attila Kinali
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Hi
Indeed, there are processes for things like filter crystals that reduce the
(very) near by responses. There are approaches for things like SC’s to
take out the somewhat further out “bothersome” stuff.
Bob
On Oct 27, 2016, at 7:53 PM, Magnus Danielson magnus@rubidium.dyndns.org wrote:
Hi,
Hmm, such fiddeling could maybe also apply to nearby alternative modes of the crystals, even if I guess it would be harder to do meaningful dents on them.
Cheers,
Magnus
On 10/28/2016 01:50 AM, Bob Camp wrote:
Hi
Crystals are highly optimized for the specific overtone they are
intended to operate on. In fact, you can fiddle them to the point
that they no longer have a “fundamental” response.
Bob
On Oct 27, 2016, at 6:42 PM, Attila Kinali attila@kinali.ch wrote:
Moin,
I have stumbled over another question I am unable to answer using the
tools I have available: Is there any fundamental difference in manufacturing
fundamental and overtone chrystals. Or to be more precise: is there an
optimization process during manufacturing that makes a crystal more suited
for one of the harmonics than for the others or all crystals similarly
well suited to be used as an fundamental crystal as they are for the 3rd
or 5th overtone?
Attila Kinali
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Any simple idea will be worded in the most complicated way.
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On 10/27/2016 4:50 PM, Bob Camp wrote:
Hi
Crystals are highly optimized for the specific overtone they are
intended to operate on. In fact, you can fiddle them to the point
that they no longer have a “fundamental” response.
Bob
That's interesting. Every overtone crystal I have played with
would happily oscillate at the fundamental. How do they
get rid of the fundamental?
Rick
Hoi Bob,
On Thu, 27 Oct 2016 19:50:46 -0400
Bob Camp kb8tq@n1k.org wrote:
Crystals are highly optimized for the specific overtone they are
intended to operate on. In fact, you can fiddle them to the point
that they no longer have a “fundamental” response.
Interesting, thanks!
Do you have any references I could read on how this is done?
Or anything else on how crystals are manufactured and optimized?
Attila Kinali
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Hi
If you look at the mode shapes for the various overtones, their energy
maxima are at different locations on the blank. If you put an electrode on
top of the 3rd overtone energy pattern (and avoid the fundamental pattern)
you will boost the 3rd and reduce the fundamental. You can actually find
examples of this in production.
A more aggressive approach would be to “sort circuit” the fundamental energy
so that the fundamental went down even further. While it can be done, I have
never seen a production example of doing this.
Bob
On Oct 27, 2016, at 11:31 PM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist richard@karlquist.com wrote:
On 10/27/2016 4:50 PM, Bob Camp wrote:
Hi
Crystals are highly optimized for the specific overtone they are
intended to operate on. In fact, you can fiddle them to the point
that they no longer have a “fundamental” response.
Bob
That's interesting. Every overtone crystal I have played with
would happily oscillate at the fundamental. How do they
get rid of the fundamental?
Rick
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HI
Roughly 99% of it is buried away in the heads of a few dozen people around
the world.
Bob
On Oct 28, 2016, at 4:24 AM, Attila Kinali attila@kinali.ch wrote:
Hoi Bob,
On Thu, 27 Oct 2016 19:50:46 -0400
Bob Camp kb8tq@n1k.org wrote:
Crystals are highly optimized for the specific overtone they are
intended to operate on. In fact, you can fiddle them to the point
that they no longer have a “fundamental” response.
Interesting, thanks!
Do you have any references I could read on how this is done?
Or anything else on how crystals are manufactured and optimized?
Attila Kinali
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the prosperity and technological sophistication in the world is of no
use without that foundation.
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On 10/28/16 5:03 AM, Bob Camp wrote:
Hi
If you look at the mode shapes for the various overtones, their energy
maxima are at different locations on the blank. If you put an electrode on
top of the 3rd overtone energy pattern (and avoid the fundamental pattern)
you will boost the 3rd and reduce the fundamental. You can actually find
examples of this in production.
A more aggressive approach would be to “sort circuit” the fundamental energy
so that the fundamental went down even further. While it can be done, I have
never seen a production example of doing this.
Fascinating.. this is similar to the reason piano hammers strike 1/7th
of the way from the end of the string - to suppress that particular
overtone, which is dissonant.
And, the whole "playing a harmonic" on a guitar is exactly what you're
talking about with picks replacing electrode positions..
https://www.guitarlessonworld.com/lessons/harmonics/ is the first hit I
got on google and explains it.
There's all sorts of harmonic maps for guitar (where to pluck or push)