At 01:28 PM 2/18/99 -0800, Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
>At 13:29 02/18/99 -0600, John Payson wrote:
>>How does that sound for an idea?
>
>it's an idea... :)
>
>are the differences between crystals of the same kind so small that an
>optimization like this one makes sense for production, or are you thinking
>mainly of highly optimized one-of-a-kind units?

The oscillator works because there's gain and phase shift applied across
the crystal.
I bet you a buck if you get it balanced, you'll be reading DC.