[time-nuts] any way to bootstrap a frequency standard into a, voltage or resistance standard?

Ed Palmer ed_palmer at sasktel.net
Fri Nov 28 07:49:50 UTC 2008


It's nowhere near the idea of a Josephson array, but if a NIST-traceable 10V +-10uV reference is good enough to satisfy your voltage-nut urges, you can buy it from www.gellerlabs.com for $35.

I also have a few standard resistors (e.g. 1.000002 ohms) that I'd be interested in calibrating, but I can't seem to come up with a practical way of doing it.

Frustrating, isn't it? :-)

Ed

Scott Burris wrote:

> Now that many of us have a nice 10Mhz reference courtesy of TAPR,
> I was wondering if there was any way to use that to build a precise
> voltage or resistance standard?
>
> I've got once of those high precision standard resistors with a sticker
> on it noting the actual measured resistance.  Is it still accurate?  Who 
> knows?
>
> As well, I have a +5v reference that uses an Analog Devices precision
> reference chip as its source.  I have more faith that this reference is
> correct within the tolerances specified in the datasheet.
>
> Now if I could somehow take that frequency reference and derive a 
> voltage standard or the like, I'd be in business.  But I can't think
> of a way that wouldn't require calibration of some sort, and if I had
> the means to calibrate, I wouldn't need the standard in the first place.
>
> Any voltage-nuts or resistance-nuts out there?
>
> Scott
>   




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