DAC resolution / availability

[David Halliday (Volt Computer)]

Actually, it can be any value at all - it just has to match it's
neighbors...


-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Perry [mailto:pfperry at melbpc.org.au]
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 1999 1:37 AM
To: synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl
Subject: Re: DAC resolution / availability


At 08:44 AM 18/03/99 +0100, jorgen.bergfors wrote:
> It seems that the actual value is almost always slightly lower
> than the nominal. Of the 20k resistors, only 2 out of 100 was 
>more than 20.000 k. So I used the 20 kohm range on the DVM to 
>get maximum resolution.
>
Jorgen, what are you using as a 'standard' resistor to know 
whether 20k on your multimeter is 20k or 19.994K?

Paul Perry melbourne australia