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5 months lead time and 200 bucks for these beauties! The metal can ones are hand-crafted and hermetically sealed. And that's only accessories in the quest for an ultra-stable voltage reference.

The total accuracy of around 0.01% is secondary, it's the low temperature coefficient of ± 0.05 ppm/°C that makes these so special.

https://xdevs.com/article/kx-ref/

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August 15, 2018

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marcoreps

Also minor dog fight over the last squeaky toy that still squeaks ... no casualties!

John McCormick

They had their top resistor scientists on this!

Holger P Kleinert

I love that particular scene. Those original packings look good on video, I am glad :)

Jamie Magin

This reminds me, I need to build one or two of the KX ref that I have boards and LTZs and most of the other parts. Still don't really have a better multimeter than an HP 3457A and an HP 3456A, but it might be fun.

Roger Koch

Did you order these direct from Vishay? I am playing with the double LM399 board from Xdevs because there was no way in hell to get the resistors for the LTZ. But i do have 2 spare double 399 boards from OSH park, if you are intersted.

marcoreps

Me neither ... but it seems like a good idea to assemble the references and leave em turned on for however many years it takes to obtain a 3458 😂

marcoreps

Thanks for the box ;) If I ever CNC machine enclosures for the references, I'll send you one! But Aluminium is probably not going to be very good on it's own, needs another layer of thermal insulation without any electrical properties so that it can touch the kx board. Mineral wool?

Jan Ka

So from the linked article I gather that these are part of a reference voltage source to calibrate your instruments with?

marcoreps

Yep, it's a voltage source that tries to change very little over temperature and time.