[chbot] High Precision Thermometer

Charles Manning cdhmanning at gmail.com
Tue Jul 13 01:33:28 BST 2010


High accuracy or high precision?

A thermistor is about as precise as you'd ever need but won't be
accurate without good references.

Crushed ice and water give a pretty good 0deg C reference.

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Nathan Kennedy
<nathan at kennedytechnology.com> wrote:
> Good morning all,
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> Does anyone in the group have access to a high precision thermometer? I have
> built a couple of temperature probes and based the temperature calculations
> on the datasheet specifications (and the results are consistant across
> probes), but would like to compare against a high precision thermometer.
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> Thanks,
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> Nathan.
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