Resistor TC; was Syncronous Switchers

Apr 16, 2013 3 Replies

From the thread, comment by John Larkin:



> I've mentioned the Susumu thinfilms here more than once. We have a
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> huge "tower" sample kit that the local Susumu rep dropped off, must be
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> a couple thousand resistors. We buy parts down to 0.05% and we are
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> measuring TCs in the 5 PPM range.
>

That's another topic in itself.



Take a specified 25ppm TC resistor part, what would be the value used for worst case calculations. The 25ppm is probably a long way from the actual TC due to manufactor "cover my ass" policies.



Anyone have numbers for that and how the trend/graph typically looks?



Do part from same lot or even manufactor tend to track, so the resultant TC of say a resistive divider isn't just the squared root sum of the individual TCs?



Regards



Klaus


case calculations. The 25ppm is probably a long way from the actual TC due to manufactor "cover my ass" policies.

say a resistive divider isn't just the squared root sum of the individual TCs?

The two parts that we tested were 0.05% with spec'd TC +-10 PPM

We measured +8 PPM/K for the 200 ohm part RG1608N-201-W-T1

and -5 for 390K RG2012N-394-W-T1

with both measurements down near our practical limits.

I'd guess that parts on the same reel would be similar, so would match well in dividers and such.

But if the spec is 25, assume 25!

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc jlarkin at highlandtechnology dot com http://www.highlandtechnology.com Precision electronic instrumentation Picosecond-resolution Digital Delay and Pulse generators Custom laser drivers and controllers Photonics and fiberoptic TTL data links VME thermocouple, LVDT, synchro acquisition and simulation

I did this not so long ago

(There are numbers on the graph scale but may be hard to see depending on browser settings).

There were two types of resisor, vishay Z201 series "ultra high precision" and some "Econistor" 3ppm parts marketed by Rhopoint in UK.

Of course this was just for some particular samples.

Yes, I believe this is usually the case.

John Devereux

It shows fine in my brower, nice measurements :-)

Thanks

Klaus

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