Greetings. I have lurked awhile and have finally found a reason to register and post. I recently purchased a PPM Ltd. (England) model 410/411 voltage reference. This unit is green colored and takes up one rack unit. It appears to be zener based, it has a black box on the PCB that I beleive houses/sheilds the zener. On the rear panel it has bananna jack that is labeled 6.25498V. It has a 1KV and 100V input divider to 1 volt output. It also has a switched output of 10V, 1V, 100mv, 10mv, 8mv, 6mv, 4mv, 2mv, 1mv, and zero volts. The unit uses binding post for the inputs and outputs and it also has a sense and guard binding post. The unit operates on 120 or 240 VAC and had 14 ea "C" nicad cells which were all corroded. The batteries were configured so that 2 cells provided a negative supply, and 12 cells provided a positive supply. The unit uses 0.005 percent wirewound resistors, they are green in color, but I do not reckonize who made the resistors. The unit uses OP07 op amps, using the round "TO" style cans of old opamps. The unit has a calibration sticker showing it was calibrated on 9-87, a transformer inside shows a made date of 1979. I have not been able to locate any information on the net about the unit. I would appreciate any information any person may have on the unit. Thanks, Tony ____________________________________________________________ FREE 3D EARTH SCREENSAVER - Watch the Earth right on your desktop! Check it out at http://www.inbox.com/earth

Hi Tony, While I know nothing about this particular device, green precision wire-wound resistors in an English instrument almost certainly are made by Mann Components (later taken over to become Vishay-Mann). They're easily recognized by an "MC" monogram. Regards, Rob. Op 29-8-2013 3:01, Tony Greene schreef: > Greetings. I have lurked awhile and have finally found a reason to register and post. > > I recently purchased a PPM Ltd. (England) model 410/411 voltage reference. This unit is green colored and takes up one rack unit. It appears to be zener based, it has a black box on the PCB that I beleive houses/sheilds the zener. On the rear panel it has bananna jack that is labeled 6.25498V. It has a 1KV and 100V input divider to 1 volt output. It also has a switched output of 10V, 1V, 100mv, 10mv, 8mv, 6mv, 4mv, 2mv, 1mv, and zero volts. The unit uses binding post for the inputs and outputs and it also has a sense and guard binding post. > > The unit operates on 120 or 240 VAC and had 14 ea "C" nicad cells which were all corroded. The batteries were configured so that 2 cells provided a negative supply, and 12 cells provided a positive supply. The unit uses 0.005 percent wirewound resistors, they are green in color, but I do not reckonize who made the resistors. The unit uses OP07 op amps, using the round "TO" style cans of old opamps. The unit has a calibration sticker showing it was calibrated on 9-87, a transformer inside shows a made date of 1979. > > I have not been able to locate any information on the net about the unit. I would appreciate any information any person may have on the unit. > > Thanks, Tony > > ____________________________________________________________ > FREE 3D EARTH SCREENSAVER - Watch the Earth right on your desktop! > Check it out at http://www.inbox.com/earth > > > _______________________________________________ > volt-nuts mailing list -- volt-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volt-nuts > and follow the instructions there. >