Oscillator installation orientation

[tabbypurr]

what a waste of time.

[Martin Brown]

Rubbish. Their output is a current flow that switches on and off alternately. What you do with externally is immaterial.

A simple load resistor would convert the changing current into a voltage but the most common uses were for visual or acoustic indicators.

[whisky-dave]

I got a group of various images.

Oscillators normally have to be connected the correct way around.

as they are powered devices althoug some people can't tell an oscillator from their arse hole .

Xtal or crystals don't.

ceramic resonators can do to some extent as they have 3 legs that can't be interchanged at will.

[The Natural Philosopher]

No, they dont. You cant connect one end of a flasher to the battery but nothing will come out *until you connect the bulb*.

Ergo te 'oscillator' beeds the bulb to work, and the output is its light.

And that simple load resistor is what is needed to create an oscillator and the junction between it and the flasher unit, creates a terminal that wasn't there before.,

QED

[RayL12]

All things vibrate, being that all things are made of 'revolving' atoms. A particular crystal, evolving along lines of force, will produce a polar aligned field of vibrations of a particular frequency range.

[RayL12]

A bell is designed to ring at a set of frequencies. A bell will have a 'natural' frequency. Every air molecule that hits it will depart a force and the bell, if it is to make a sound at all due to the air, will do so at it's 'natural' frequency. Because you don't hear it does not mean it is not making the sound at all, at any level.

Nothing is still.

[The Natural Philosopher]

How very 'zen'