> on 8/1/02 9:32 AM, Jinx at joecolquitt@CLEAR.NET.NZ wrote:
>
> > 5/32.768 is bloody awful !!!! That's 16% error from a crystal that
> > is ppm stable
>
> No. I got 32 763 seconds instead of 32 768. That is not a 16% error.
> More like 0.00015258 %

Not %:

5/32768 = .000152587890625 (exactly)

which is about 153 ppm and +/- 5Hz at the crystal freq. This is about the
pull limit (using a trim cap only) of a 32kHz watch crystal if it is
overdriven a little bit.

Peter

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