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.

The two persons above are the geniuses who gave us two classic oscillator circuits as shown in Figure 1. Figure 1 The two classic oscillators circuits: Colpitts (left) and Clapp (right). However, a ...

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 ...

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 ...