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 02:39:59 +0000 From: John Larkin Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Practical resistor accuracy distribution Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 19:38:07 -0700 Organization: Highland Tech Reply-To: xx@yy.com Message-ID: References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.1/32.783 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 34 X-Trace: sv3-adIOboG0olG5d73D3BYSZTg3BvhvZZ6CwdRcyhkH+PAnBianm7YEt+tnNtYcyCxpaCR6QwpImjWbJpB!8vAwXCF9XbPUUMqEFq8wI74+34RYJRObKKVr0PTaqDJaOJXv/DM92Sq7u7HH6FM8hIJjVJIuH70p!rMklPw== 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: 2237 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.