Path: Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2024 21:26:36 +0000 From: John Larkin Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Practical resistor accuracy distribution Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2024 14:24:43 -0700 Organization: Highland Tech Reply-To: xx@yy.com Message-ID: References: <00pq2jh2o2ru6qqlp4bs79f4bn5s95agu7@4ax.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.1/32.783 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 52 X-Trace: sv3-GryB9psqQ1y58PDNx5H+VwYrKhyri6369cA0Mh8pBHPVBrK18rotKRMBJ9yZdITCUDna+qXRCiifbTw!cDBOdjDbeJi++5LYBm6dHOFgqs0x3PsC8ta3fuMhyxb3n6NqS3Ra7aL0Vc3y0IZH9srQgq27GSxN!s7EB4w== X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 3012 On Sat, 27 Apr 2024 16:47:29 -0400, Joe Gwinn wrote: >On Fri, 26 Apr 2024 19:38:07 -0700, John Larkin > wrote: > >>On Fri, 26 Apr 2024 20:16:48 -0400, Joe Gwinn >>wrote: >> >>>On Sat, 27 Apr 2024 00:54:41 +0200, Klaus Vestergaard Kragelund >>> wrote: >>> >>>>Hi >>>> >>>>I needed to look into distribution of accuracy of resistors. >>>> >>>>Vendors don't have any info, but luckily some nice people online have >>>>done measurements: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>The thing to be aware of is that resistor value distributions are >>>often wildly non-Gaussian. The classic example is where there are >>>grades, say 1%, 5%, and 20%. The 5% group will often have a hole that >>>happens to match the 1% distribution perfectly. >>> >>>A lot of modern resistors are made with a relatively wide >>>distribution, and then machine-sorted into bins. In this case, many >>>of the bins will have uniform distributions. And so on. >>> >>>Joe Gwinn >> >>I suspect that they may laser trimmed and shipped, not binned. >> >>One batch on a reel could be very close to one another. > >Also possible, and maybe a combination of both? > >But the fundamental point is that one must measure to be sure, unless >one is a large enough customer that the manufacturer will simply tell >you. > >Joe Gwinn We just assume that all 1% resistors are within 1%. We buy 0.1% and some 0.05% parts too. Since most of our products have software-based calibration, we mostly care about resistor tempcos, not so much tolerances.