Bill, I am much obliged! Thank you!
Jim
Bill Potts wrote:
>
> John, Han and Jim:
>
> v.MW is an abbreviation for vom Messwert, meaning "of the reading." It's
> used in accuracy/tolerance figures -- as in 0,05% v.MW.
>
> It is, however, an improper usage. The correct form is v.M.
>
> There is also v.E (sometimes incorrectly written as v.EW), for vom Endwert
> (of the end value).
>
> My source for the correct usage is the two-volume H. Wernicke Lexikon der
> Elektronik, Nachrichten- und Elektrotechnik (Dictionary of Electronics,
> Communications and Electrical Engineering), published by Rohde und Schwartz.
> Having been in my new house for only just over two months, I hadn't yet
> unpacked all my books. I went to the garage and dug that one out of a box
> just this evening.
>
> Bill Potts, CMS
> Roseville, CA
> http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
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