[volt-nuts] HP3458A _really_ long term stability

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed Sep 7 08:52:17 UTC 2011


In message <33473809FD874529A25FBD3D6B6EB55E at laptop>, "Andreas Jahn" writes:

>If the last cal was really before 1.1.1990 remember that the
>official volt has been redefined at 1.1.1990 by +8.06 ppm.
>So all readings which were made before have to be corrected by -8.06ppm.

Now things get interesting:  the 8.06 was for "most other countries",
but for US it was 9.26 PPM.

Does anybody know if HP calibrated 3458A's going to europe differently
from those going to USA ?

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