Right you are... ;^P<br> <br> The National website suggests the LM4050 which has 50ppm<br> max tempco. (if you are that worried about it :^)<br> <br> OK its an SMT package so its harder to solder...<br> <br> The metal film resistors ~most~ of us are using in our designs are<br> 100ppm or 50ppm. Trimpots and caps are usually MUCH higher than<br> this. <br> <br> The tempcos are 3300ppm. Residual drifts, from those list members<br> who are measuring this for their VCOs... is probably in the 100-150ppm<br> best case, with careful trimming by hand.<br> <br> So I'm suggesting that a 100ppm (or 50ppm) percision reference is really<br> pretty good, compared to the levels of precision that everythign else has...<br> <br> Now without getting too silly...we could buy a simple thermometer and<br> measure the temperature of the lab... We might expect it to be 25C +/-<br> a few degrees... (except in Jim Patchell's lab where I hear its 50F,!
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needs<br> the furnace fixed iirc).<br> <br> The measurements would NOT be precise over wide temperature ranges...<br> but even a CHEAP thermometer would tell us that the temperature was<br> reasonably the same (or that it is not).<br> <br> We would NOT know that the temperature was really 25C... it might be 22C<br> or 28C... but again we expect that it would read the same on consecutive<br> days. Again, its a repeatability question, not an accuracy question.<br> <br> I'm not saying that its BAD to have expensive test equipment...<br> just that their is no reason for a newbie to wait ten years until<br> he can GET the good equipment.<br> <br> H^) harry<br><br><b><i>Samppa Tolvanen <samppa.tolvanen@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> On 3/8/06, Chris Manders <wight446 @yahoo.com=""> wrote:<br>> Hi Harry and everyone<br>><br>> Now they are!
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Many thanks for the pointer.<br>><br>Hi Chris and especially H^) harry ;)<br><br>> 5.000V and 10.000V exact references.<br><br>Did You notice 100ppm/Celsius degree temperature cofficient? Now we<br>have the problem of scaling being off because reference voltages are<br>not in the same temperature as the circuit measured - Don't we?<br><br>Samppa<br><br></wight446></blockquote><br>