[time-nuts] any way to bootstrap a frequency standard into a voltage or resistance standard?
Scott Burris
slburris at gmail.com
Fri Nov 28 05:17:40 UTC 2008
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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