Ok, question about accurate meters, bench or portable?
01-03-2005, 07:41 PM
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This might be an easy question but its always urked me.
I know Fluke and companies like Agilent make awesome and very accurate meters and test equipment, but who sets the standards when it comes to accuracy.
What Im saying is, say if you have a 2v source your trying to measure, and a fluke read it as 1.97v and an aglient reads it as 1.99v, how do you know what the real value is. I mean you can do a bunch of calculations regarding the resistance of the meter in use and voltage drop etc, but when someone refers to a fluke as very accurate, accurate in what way, and who set the standard for all meters to be accurate to?
Maybe this will go into great discussion, maybe not.
I know Fluke and companies like Agilent make awesome and very accurate meters and test equipment, but who sets the standards when it comes to accuracy.
What Im saying is, say if you have a 2v source your trying to measure, and a fluke read it as 1.97v and an aglient reads it as 1.99v, how do you know what the real value is. I mean you can do a bunch of calculations regarding the resistance of the meter in use and voltage drop etc, but when someone refers to a fluke as very accurate, accurate in what way, and who set the standard for all meters to be accurate to?
Maybe this will go into great discussion, maybe not.
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