I'm working on improvement of my CCIR->OIRT downconverter based on LA1185 IC. Previously I've faced strange problem that on certain frequencies I'm getting just a loud silence and sometimes (depending on temperature changes, I think) it just doesn't work at all. I suspect that this can be related to the quartz crystals which I use - they are working on their 3rd harmonic. I've decided to change them to fundamental ones.
I discovered, however, that the most of the crystals from Mouser (22 MHz, 30 MHz and 36 MHz, for example) have load capacitance. If I understand this right this is the capacitance which I should match by adding two caps of that value in parallel to the both pins of my crystals (as I usually do with AVRs) to the ground so the crystal itself is designed for parallel use. However it's clearly seen from schematics that Y1-Y3 crystals are just in series between ground and OSC pin of LA1185.
There are few crystals on Mouser which are labeled as "Series" so I can't actually get full set of them. And I doubt if I can use crystals with Load Capacitance in such a way according to the schematics.
My questions are:
- Can I just use any crystal of right frequency but with Load Capacitance without any modifications to the current schematics/PCB?
- If no, is it possible to use them anyway but with, for example, adding some caps between crystal pins and ground (-5V in this schematics)?
- If previous is true, what will be the proper way to add such a caps to my crystals?
Thank you!
EDIT 1 Regarding question 1, let's consider that Y1 crystal have stated Load Capacitance of 10 pF (I assume it's designed to be used in parallel), what is the proper way of connecting it?
I understand that frequency will vary a bit but as I said down in the comments I don't think that this change will matter a lot because even an error of a few kilohertz should be ok for downconverting the whole CCIR into OIRT (that's why I use three crystals selectable - just to be able to select necessary subrange). More interesting question is how it will impact on the stability? What are the potential pitfalls of using improper connection such as no oscillation at all, temperature dependence etc?
EDIT 2 I've found this useful AN. According to the chapter 5 I should select C1 and C2 in that way so their series combination will be close to the Load Capacitance: (C1 * C2) / (C1 + C2) = C_load. For AVRs it's around 11 pF (22 * 22 / (22 + 22)).