On 11/08/2015 17:53, Richard Moore wrote:
True of any resistor that you want to trust to better than 10ppm, including the 
Vishays.
Of course, but Dr Frank's experience with the oil filled Vishay foils has been good - from another eevblog post:

'Only the hermetically sealed, oil filled types (e.g. VHP202Z) give a big advantage. Their rate is typically 2ppm/6yrs., and therefore will add about 0.02ppm/yr only. In picture 1 you’ll find long-term stability monitoring of 3 EA of my 5 VHP202Z. After 2 years, they really remain within < 0.5ppm of their initial value, so that is obviously no fake advertisement.
(Remark: The measurement stability was improved also during that time.)'

That's pretty close to the SR104's typical drift of .2ppm/year, .5ppm max (1ppm first 2 years), but the TCR of his parts were much worse than the SR104's .1ppm typical ranging from .3ppm to 1ppm. He might well have got lucky but I read on a Chinese volt-nut type blog that Vishay originally specified < 2ppm/10 years but reduced it to 6 years - presumably due to complaints/experience. Personally I would be happy to trust that they would remain within 10ppm for many years but you would have to get them measured periodically to know for certain. Depending on how cheaply you could buy one, it might be cheaper to buy new ones for 2 or 3 years rather than getting one calibrated and using them to determine the drift of the earlier parts. And you would have a collection of resistors to improve confidence in the secondary standard.

Does anyone know how much it would cost to get a 10k resistor measured to < 2ppm in the UK by a calibration company? Does anyone know how much it would cost to buy a 1% Vishay VH102Z/VHP101 or similar with a < 2ppm measurement?

Edwin Pettis quoted me $7.28 for one 10k resistor ($5.46 for 11 to 24) so they could be a viable way of getting accurately (approx 1ppm) measured resistors. The higher TCR, 3ppm/C would increase the uncertainties though as it would require them to be used within 1C or so of that when measured by Mr Pettis, but he can select for 1ppm TCR or less for an extra $2 which would easily be justified for this purpose. Obviously the uncertainties due to transport shocks/vibration (although Mr Pettis claims they are very rugged) and drift related to the time in transport would need to be considered.

On Aug 11, 2015, at 9:00 AM, volt-nuts-requ...@febo.com wrote:

Edwin Pettis states his resistors drift is typically better than 2ppm in
the first year, so pretty good but you'd still need to have them
measured every few years. If you have to get them professionally
calibrated it may be cheaper to buy the Vishay parts. Edwin could
provide the measured values as could Vishay if you bought directly from
them.
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