Temperature Sensing Reference Materials

Description: Temperature is one of seven basic values in the current SI-System of units and is probably the most important parameter in measurement technology. Temperature measurements roughly divide into three ...

Description: Non-contacting temperature measurement techniques for the processing industries complement thermocouple and RTD sensors. Innovations in infrared technology are reducing their cost and size while ...

Description: In a qualitative manner, we can describe the temperature of an object as that which determines the sensation of warmth or coldness felt from contact with it. ...

Description: The industry standard for platinum RTD's according to IEC-751 is + /- 0.12% (of resistance) at 0°C, commonly referred to as Class B accuracy. This will provide an accuracy of + /- 0.3°C at 0°C, which ...

Description: With these general guidelines to the basic function, performance, and recognized standards for RTD's, anyone can specify the right device for the application. ...

Description: In 1983, the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) adopted the Deutsche Institute fur Normung (DIN) standard of platinum with a TC = 0.00385 ohm/ohm/°C. ...

Description: Microsoft has altered how Internet Explorer renders some flash content in Internet Explorer 8 and above in Windows Vista, 7, and 8. This can cause issues in the Accsense monitoring system web ...

Description: Applications Objective:   To monitor the performance of one or two of North Atlantic Industries' DC-DC Converter products over the temperature range of approximately -60C to +80C using a dataTaker ...

Description: We cannot make any generalizations, each application must be judged on its own. But if you have a new requirement for a temperature transducer, and you are not quite sure how to fill the space, run ...

Description: Zoos, shelters, universities and other organizations often need to monitor and record animal temperature for conservation and research. In many of these projects, staff also need temperature alarms ...

Description: CAS DataLoggers has provided the paperless chart recording device for a medical research laboratory undertaking a set of experiments requiring real-time temperature monitoring and alarming. For years ...

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Description: CAS DataLoggers has provided the temperature data loggers for a construction contractor which needed to monitor and record the cure of structural concrete onsite. Once workers could prove that the ...

Description: Test walls form a convenient way to perform product verification for testing appliances from ovens to dishwashers to stoves. Some facilities use specialized test walls of various sizes, holding stacks ...

Description: CAS DataLoggers has provided the performance verification solution for an HVAC provider monitoring the efficiency of its solar collector water heating system installed in a nursing home. A ...

Description: In light of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's new guidelines for vaccine storage, pharmacies have an increasing need for automated temperature monitoring and alarming. CAS DataLoggers ...

Description: CAS DataLoggers recently provided the temperature monitoring and alarming solution for a customer who produced whole frozen turkeys for sale in supermarkets. Once frozen, the meat needed to be ...

Description: CAS DataLoggers recently provided the continual monitoring and alarm system for a server storage provider whose customers relied 24/7 on the equipment's reliability. For example, if a single server ...

Description: CAS DataLoggers recently provided the automated data logging solution for a crude oil refinery which wanted standalone systems for thermocouple measurement in a number of their observation wells. ...

Description: At CAS DataLoggers our customers often call in to ask us how often they should set their data loggers to sample for their particular monitoring and alarming projects. While this can vary based on your ...

Description: Recently CAS DataLoggers provided an Accsense temperature alarm and monitoring system to a hospital blood bank looking to replace their old paper chart recorders. To keep their refrigerated blood ...

Description: CAS DataLoggers recently supplied a wireless alarming system to a brewery mass-producing American lager. As its top priority, the brewery wanted to monitor its fermentation process in greater detail ...

Description: CAS DataLoggers is proud to have recently provided the wireless data logging solution to Dave Friend, owner of the Ojai Sulcata Project Inc. in Ojai, California, which rescues and researches the ...

Description: CAS DataLoggers receives many calls from manufacturers who need a datalogging solution for quality assurance purposes. A common project involves scanning bar codes on products coming off of ...

Description: Every day, CAS DataLoggers offers customers our temperature monitoring and alarming solutions for use in a wide range of industries. With this in mind, let's take a look at Radio Frequency ...

Description: CAS DataLoggers recently supplied the remote alarming system for a processing plant storing various temperature-sensitive industrial materials. Plant supervisors needed to prove to their end users ...

Description: If you're part of a hospital or pharmacy staff responsible for monitoring the temperature in your refrigerators/freezer units, you may be surprised at how much your system's readings can vary ...

Description: The leading supplier to Puerto Rican & Carribean power and process instrumentation industries came to us looking for a continuous 2.5 mile thermocouple extension cable to test the conditions of water ...

Description: CAS DataLoggers recently provided the freezer alarming solution for a slaughterhouse with meat lockers storing product requiring continual temperature monitoring. The company also needed proof of ...

Description: CAS DataLoggers recently supplied the environmental datalogging solution for a factory with office rooms experiencing serious air quality issues. Employees began reporting headaches, indicating a ...

Description: Using your Accsense remote monitoring system, it's easy to access your critical temperature data (along with humidity and other values) remotely from our secure cloud servers. The Applications ...

Description: A large manufacturing technology company contacted CAS DataLoggers after being asked to develop a method for testing the cure and strength of structural concrete in the field. Reproducing real-life ...

Description: CAS DataLoggers recently provided the heat treatment monitoring solution for a manufacturer who needed to monitor their through process. The customer's large production runs were cured in batches for ...

Description: Accsense wireless real-time monitoring systems are commonly used in hospitals, pharmacies and businesses for applications such as fridge and freezer monitoring. Infrequently, facilities have an issue ...

Description: CAS DataLoggers recently supplied a temperature and humidity logger to a homeowner in the Northeast who needed continual monitoring for his summer vacation home. This way the caretaker (a relative) ...

Description: A fruit crop experiment station needed a monitoring and control solution for its climate systems in a number of greenhouses. The proposed system needed to monitor soil moisture content and temperature ...

Description: Whether you work in supply, medical monitoring, or industry, your business can save time and labor using automated wireless monitoring systems provided by CAS DataLoggers. Our T&D RTR-500-AW Wireless ...

Description: To ensure that pet food production meets demanding FDA requirements, manufacturers must continually monitor the temperature of their extruding equipment for quality control purposes. A CAS DataLoggers ...

Description: Producing good seed corn takes much more effort than just planting and harvesting. Agricultural producers need to record and view both time and temperature during their product's drying cycle. If the ...

Description: CAS DataLoggers recently provided the temperature and humidity monitoring solution for a large manufacturer of insulation materials. The company's insulation material was absorbing a significant ...

Description: CAS DataLoggers recently provided the temperature data logger for a small coffee roaster producing original blends with coffee beans poured into an industrial roaster and heated to about 220°C (428°F) ...

Description: CAS DataLoggers recently provided the temperature monitoring equipment for a winery planning a study that involved recording the effects of covering some of their grapevines in plastic. The owners ...

Description: CAS DataLoggers recently offered the temperature datalogging solution for a factory with multiple lines of batch heat treatment ovens. The factory had been taking manual temperature measurements from ...

Description: CAS DataLoggers recently supplied the remote temperature monitoring solution for Euclid Hospital, a Cleveland Clinic member. The hospital's morgue contained a body cooler which needed to be maintained ...

Description: Workers in food storage, medical monitoring and many other industries rely on RTD temperature measurements to protect their valuable inventory. CAS DataLoggers Applications Specialists offer this ...

Description: CAS DataLoggers recently had a unique customer-a group of paranormal investigators going ghost hunting! This organization needed to conduct extensive temperature monitoring to pinpoint the sudden ...

Description: Several Accsense data logger pods can connect with PT-100 RTD temperature probes to provide highly accurate measurements. These probes are 3-wire probes and can present some problems when users do the ...

Description: Personnel installing new temperature monitoring equipment in their medical or storage refrigerators and freezers are often stumped as to why the temperature appears to vary unexpectedly. ...

Description: When it comes to temperature probes, users have many sensor types to choose from, including thermistors, RTDs and thermocouples. Thermocouples come in many different types and tend to be the most ...

Description: CAS DataLoggers recently supplied the industrial data logging technology for a large manufacturing plant monitoring the temperature of several water bath tanks used to maintain the temperature of a ...

Description: CAS DataLoggers recently provided the data logging solution for an environmental organization monitoring an outbreak of algal blooms in a major river. The slime-colored blooms had formed as a rapid ...

Description: There are 4 main types of temperature sensors that are used with data loggers, and it can seem like a difficult decision to find the right type. ...

Description: CAS DataLoggers recently supplied the datalogging solution for a chocolate manufacturer experiencing problems when complaints came in from customers occasionally receiving spoiled chocolate products. ...

Description: CAS DataLoggers recently provided the temperature monitoring and alarming solution for a nationwide security company with a pharmacy client who required additional alarming for their 3 medical ...

Description: CAS DataLoggers recently provided the wireless pressure and temperature monitoring solution for a hospital maintaining a surgery cleanroom to protect patients from a variety of environmental ...

Description: Given the variables surrounding temperature measurement, it is little surprise that accuracy and reliability have been a persistent problem. As a world leader, Cropico understands what it takes to ...

Description: When working with dataloggers, users sometimes have to apply calibration corrections themselves, which can be quite an involved process. This tutorial examines a scenario involving thirty ...

Description: CAS DataLoggers provided the remote flower storage temperature monitoring solution for a fresh flower supplier who needed to monitor the temperature in three remote storage sheds. Like everyone in the ...

Description: Current-time characteristic: The current-time characteristic is the relationship at a specified ambient temperature between the current through a thermistor and time, upon the application or ...

Description: Advances in electronic and detector technology have resulted in a variety of non-contact infrared thermometers (IR) for industrial and scientific use. It is important to understand their major ...

Description: A resistor's Temperature Coefficient of Resistance (TCR) tells how much its value changes as its temperature changes. It is usually expressed in ppm/°C (parts per million per degree Centigrade) ...

Description: The KD2 and KD2 Pro use the transient heated needle to measure thermal properties of solid and fluid media. With this technique, a 30 second heat pulse is applied to a needle, and the temperature ...

Description: To convert a temperature from Fahrenheit to Centigrade, locate the number in the center column corresponding to the temperature in degrees Fahrenheit and read the equivalent temperature in degrees ...

Description: An averaging temperature sensor (ATS) is generally used to maintain the design mixed air temperature of an airside economizer system. These devices can have sensing elements from 5 to 50 feet long and ...

Description: This guide discusses important operation and maintenance considerations for thermometers, as well as how to install a thermometer. ...

Description: This application note shows how Microchip Technology?s Watchdog Timer (WDT) can be used to acquire rough temperature measurements. ...

Description: This Technical Brief presents an example of a simple, multi-zone thermal monitoring system using the Hardware mode of the Master Synchronous Serial Port (MSSP) module of a PICmicro ® ...

Description: There is a variety of temperature sensors on the market all of which meet specific application needs. The most common sensors used to solve these application problems include the thermocouple, ...

Description: Of all of the sensing technologies, temperature sensing is the most common. This phenomena can be explained by citing examples in a multitude of applications where knowing and using the actual or ...

Description: The NLX Power Supply Specification released by Intel Corp. defines the requirements for next-generation PC system power supplies. There are several enhancements outlined in this specification as ...

Description: This application note describes a temperature sensor using a PICmicro® microcontroller. This temperature sensor is unique because it can work through non-ferromagnetic walls. Interfacing to a ...

Description: Battery-operated equipment (most notably cell phones and notebook computers) have created a strong demand for linear regulators in small packages. While such packages save space, they also have poor ...

Description: The TC74 is a serially accessible digital temperature sensor that can determine temperatures in the range of 25°C to 85°C with ±2° absolute accuracy or 0°C to 125°C with ±3° absolute accuracy. ...

Description: Thermocouples are the simplest form of temperature sensors. Thermocouples are normally: * Very inexpensive * Easily manufactured * Effective over a wide range of temperatures Thermocouples come in ...

Description: Although it is simple to measure temperature in a stand-alone system without the help of Microchip?s Programmable Gain Amplifiers (PGA), a variety of problems can be eliminated by implementing ...

Description: History has shown that consumers have an almost insatiable appetite for even greater computing horsepower. If you're old enough to remember, the mere thought of cryptic DOS software programs creeping ...

Description: AN1154 Precision RTD Instrumentation for Temperature Sensing SOLUTION Author: Ezana Haile Microchip Technology Inc. This solution uses a common reference voltage to bias the RTD and the ADC which ...

Description: Many fine papers have been delivered and written about chocolate temper by authors far more knowledgeable than this writer as regards to the chemistry and processes involved in producing the ...

Description: Companies that process dairy products, use milk as the main raw material for their production. It is extremely important that milk must be collected, transported and processed under specific ...

Description: Infrared thermometers operate by means of infrared radiation. Infrared occupies a portion of the electromagnetic spectrum between visible light radio waves. The electromagnetic spectrum is a group of ...

Description: ACROLAB RTD assemblies utilize wire wound platinum elements with a reference resistance of 100 Ohms at 0 C and a temperature coefficient of 0.00385 Ohms/Ohm/C degrees. ALL Acrolab RTD probes are of ...

Description: A medical manufacturer needed to find a way to control the heat sealing of plastic bags and pouches containing sterilized supplies. If the sealing equipment did not apply enough heat, a hermetic seal ...

Description: It is the purpose of the information on this page to give you some general guidelines in estimating the speed of response you might expect from a thermocouple or an RTD. In defining any transient ...

Description: RTD Tolerance table ...

Description: Thermocouple Characteristics Table ...

Description: Special tolerances below 0°C (32°F) are unofficial and are provided as a basis of discussion between Conax and our customers. ...

Description: Resistance in Ohms per Double Foot at 68°F. ...

Description: From choosing the right temperature sensor for your particular process application to the periodic recalibration of that temperature sensor, these tips can help you ensure temperature measurement ...

Description: This manual was written for people who are unfamiliar with noncontact infrared temperature measurement. A conscious attempt has been made to present the subject matter as briefly and simply as ...

Description: The Work Load - This is the material to be heated and is generally associated with a cycle time or a time rate of passage over or through the heated part. ...

Description: Emissivity is the measure of an object's ability to emit infrared energy. Emitted energy indicates the temperature of the object. Emissivity can have a value from 0 (shiny mirror) to 1.0 (blackbody). ...

Description: Infrared Thermometry (IR) is being used extensively in a variety of manufacturing facilities and power plants to detect energy losses and monitor temperatures of motors, other equipment, and ...