Hobby-level books tend to say, build a circuit like this and then mess with it until it oscillates. Engineering texts tend to go on about loop gains but aren’t very clear about practice.

Hobby-level books tend to say, build a circuit like this and then mess ... The post looks at a Colpitts oscillator. You can usually tell a Colpitts oscillator by remembering it starts with C ...

often with sophisticated circuit models and accompanying mathematics, but the basic issue is easily grasped with just a little intuition: Every follower is just one inductance away from being a ...

Using my Multisim SPICE tool to analyze an oscillator, I ran into a little bit of simulation trouble. My circuit was a simple Colpitts oscillator and the simulation showed that it would indeed ...

The simplified equivalent series LCR circuit contains the motional inductance, the sum of the applied negative resistance of the three-point oscillator and the motional resistance of the crystal ...