Olin Lathrop wrote:
>
> > Hi Sanjay, sorry I don't know where you were trained,
> > but I was taught that to get good reliable measurements
> > of "active" signals you need to allow 2% to 5% of the
> > total for the measurement equipment.
>
> I don't believe this, care to justify it?  Frankly this sounds like one of
> those conclusions reached in a particular case where the answer was
> remembered but the conditions governing the particular case were forgotten.


Yes I must apologise to Sanjay and the rest of
the list! I hastily read his post and thought it
was for testing of a 100v speaker system, ie
transformer driven, and I just snapped at the idea
of using a 1 milliohm resistor to measure this.
I'll make sure to read slower in future, i've
been doing some real long hours lately...
Sorry! :o)
-Roman

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