[time-nuts] HP 5370B
Mike S
mikes at flatsurface.com
Sun May 11 00:23:48 UTC 2008
At 08:02 PM 5/10/2008, GandalfG8 at aol.com wrote...
> This has nothing to do with fraudulently claiming compliance, it
> just
>started as a well reasoned discussion of tolerances and the
>implications thereof.
There can be no other conclusion from the statements made.
"Most microwave network analyzers have amplitude resolution of 0.01dB,
while their accuracy is just around 1dB in most cases...I have had to
argue too many times that a piece of equipment with a 2dB p-p
requirement on flatness was just fine when it measured 2.01dB on the HP
network analyzer. I would not have gotten in that argument if the data
had been 1.99dB."
"I have never had a piece of equipment rejected because a reading was
1.99 for a spec of 2 max"
The statements were made with regard to instrument
resolution/accuracy/precision. Clearly, measuring 2.01 (or 1.99) on an
instrument with an accuracy of 1 does not allow compliance with a
specification of 2 to be met.
It was only later that the red herring of significant digits was
brought up. A specification of "2" is ambiguous in that regard anyway.
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