[volt-nuts] HP 3458A DC current accuracy

Artekmedia henderson47 at embarqmail.com
Fri Jul 13 15:49:17 UTC 2012


There are 1,209,600 seconds in a fortnight (14days/fortnight x 24 
hours/day x 60 min/hour x 60 seconds/min) so the implied error is a bit 
less than 1PPM.


Dave

"Experience keeps a dear school ..but a fool learns in no other" ..Ben 
Franklin


On 7/13/2012 8:09 AM, Steve wrote:
> But what if a leap second occurs during the fortnight the standard is being set? ;)
>
> Steve
>
>
>
> On Jul 13, 2012, at 7:22 AM, "Poul-Henning Kamp"<phk at phk.freebsd.dk>  wrote:
>
>> In message<4FFFEBEC.8030802 at embarqmail.com>, Artekmedia writes:
>>
>> Yes, I'd expect the last non-metric country in the world to go for that :-)
>>
>>> Coulombs per fortnight to be sure :-)
>>>
>>> On 7/13/2012 2:40 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>>>> In message<CAE6XXrjKES2=BPCNyzOcbXFM73+4ztOTAkUEcTTaqTsDuvrJGw at mail.gmail.com>
>>>> , Will writes:
>>>>
>>>>> No practical quantum Ampere so far?
>>>> It has always surprised me that the Ampere was not defined in terms of
>>>> electron charges per second...
>>>>
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