Talk:Crystal oven

Radiation?
Why does the table of specifications for crystal oscillators include a column for radiation (RADs)? Neither crysal oscillators nor atomic clocks emit ionizing radiation. Or is this radiation tolerance? Or is it supposed to be heat radiation, and the units were mislabelled? If no one can straighten this out, I'm going to remove this column. -- Chetvorno TALK 08:52, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Go ahead, I think it is a measure of the error introduced when the oscillator is placed in ionizing radiation but the given unit (Radiation per RAD) makes no sense as RAD is a unit for radiation it reduces to a unit less value. I don't think it is relevant in this context. Gr8xoz (talk) 14:01, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

Comparison with other frequency standards
I removed the power reference for the DCF77 receiver as 4.7W make no sense for the receiver circuit alone. The linked Reference pointed to a time server device, which is significantly more than is needed to receive a time signal.

The table further contains a column called 'Accuracy', shouldn't this be 'Precision' as 'Accuracy' is somewhat meaningless for a time source. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_and_precision — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.246.125.149 (talk) 15:41, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

Update Table
Please add the following to the oscillator table in this article:


 * WWV - I see DCF77 in the table, but I don't know WWV has different values or not, thus is why I didn't add it.


 * Hydrogen maser frequency standard


 * Strontium and/or other frequency standards, per https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2017/11/nists-next-generation-atomic-clocks-may-support-official-timekeeping

• Sbmeirow  •  Talk  • 17:37, 19 December 2023 (UTC)