Re: [volt-nuts] Agilent calibration

2013-08-14 Thread John Phillips
no, this is work and it is not that accurate. that is just our best guess (about 1 ppm) of an old fluke 732B. We compare with our other 732Bs. Any available 3458As are monitoring the Flukes. Each hour a program picks up the Mean Max Min standard deviation from each meter average them together and p

Re: [volt-nuts] Agilent calibration

2013-08-14 Thread Demian Martin
Do you really have a .01 PPM voltage reference? A personal JJ? That's taking this hobby to a new level. > > Daniel, > They are made like that... Problem is with drift. > When you cal a 3458A the first step is to short the inputs and wait for the > thermals to die. Then you do a Cal 0 and the inc

Re: [volt-nuts] Agilent calibration

2013-08-14 Thread John Phillips
Daniel, They are made like that... Problem is with drift. When you cal a 3458A the first step is to short the inputs and wait for the thermals to die. Then you do a Cal 0 and the incitement stores all the 0 offsets for that set of terminals. they you switch to the other set and do it again. Next st

[volt-nuts] Fluke 893A

2013-08-14 Thread Joseph Gray
While Googling, I came across this on Craigslist: http://phoenix.craigslist.org/nph/tls/3919599836.html Out of curiosity, I called the guy. He says he still has it. I decided not to buy it, as the shipping would probably be twice the $10 he is asking. Besides, I have the 895A now. If anyone here

Re: [volt-nuts] DMM calibration

2013-08-14 Thread J. L. Trantham
Joe, Sorry to be so late answering this post but I'm 'tied up' right now and can't get to all my data. However, I have sent DMM's to Agilent (3458A), Fluke (289 and 8846A), and Ametek - Solartron (7081). Agilent was for their 'Agilent Cal' and it included 'As Found' and 'As Left' data with 'adju

Re: [volt-nuts] Agilent calibration

2013-08-14 Thread Daniel Mendes
Sorry if i´m being naive, but what´s the difficuty of making a digital equipment with a memory to store the offset of each scale ans subtract it before sending to the display, no pot trimming involved? Why aren´t all of the ones made after, let´s say, 1995, like this? Daniel Em 14/08/2013 20

Re: [volt-nuts] Agilent calibration

2013-08-14 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 14 August 2013 06:41, Charles Steinmetz wrote: > Joe wrote: > >> The way I read this is that if I send them a DMM that is within spec, they >> won't adjust it or provide pre/post data. Is this the case? If I spend >> over >> $200 sending a DMM to them, I want it adjusted to the best possible sp

Re: [volt-nuts] Fluke 895A

2013-08-14 Thread Joseph Gray
You can get two digits from the last dial scale. I didn't say I believed them :-) In fact, given the age and history of this thing, I'm surprised that even the first digit is believeable. Joe Gray W5JG On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Charles Steinmetz wrote: > Joe wrote: > > Just messing ar