DOH, those of you on the vector list will have
already seen this. Sent it to the wrong list.
For those of you not on vectorlist:
While building up the two beta 9100 keyboard wedge
boards I realized I didn't have any 22pf caps. So I tossed a pair of 100pf
caps onto my breadboard of the circuit and everything worked great.
Then I went to build the perfboard version and
realized I only had two of the 100pf caps and as I wanted to leave the
breadboard version intact for now so I grabbed a pair of .1uf caps.
Hooked everything up and it didn't
work.
So I checked everything twice more and still no
go. Got to wondering if maybe the value of those caps is really important
and realized I have NO idea how to spec them nor even what they do.
So can anyone enlighten me?
I have seen circuits use 18pf, 22pf and 27pf for
the crystal caps. The 100pfs do work, but I wonder now if I just got
lucky.
Also which should I use, simple ceramic disc or the
Monolithic ceramic disc?
David