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Temperature

Ice cold – Electrical thermometers in low ambient temperatures

Joachim Brückner | Know-how
frozen pipeline

Medium temperatures of -60 °C don't even make the designers of electrical thermometers shrug their shoulders – but when one speaks of ambient temperatures of -60 °C, then one often hears a sharp intake of (cold) breath. It quickly becomes clear that one cannot …

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Mineral-insulated cables – a core component for the construction of electrical thermometers

Jochen Gries | Know-how
Image: Mineral-insulated cables

Mineral-insulated cable, often also abbreviated to MI cable, consists of a metal sheath and ceramic-insulated internal conductors. The ceramic is a metal oxide powder (standard material is MgO) with a purity of > 99.0%, which ensures the insulation of the internal …

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Selection criteria for dial thermometers (2): process temperature

Christoph Strebel | Know-how
reading of the process temperature at a dial thermometer

Which dial thermometer is suitable for which process? Whether a bimetal or a gas-actuated thermometer is used depends on several factors - for example, on the process temperature. Bimetal thermometers are generally designed for scale ranges of -70 °C to +600 …

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Pt100 in 2-, 3- or 4-wire connection?

Roland Sachs | Know-how
2-, 3- or 4-wire connection for Pt100?

Pt100, Pt1000 and NTC are the most-used measuring elements in resistance thermometers . I would like to use this blog to consider the question of connection types in greater detail. Resistance thermometers change their electrical resistance as a function of …

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Safety temperature limiter for plants safe to operate

Andreas Borchard | Know-how
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Heat-generating plants are used in industry and in heating technology. The safe operation of such plants requires a large number of safety devices. They are designed to prevent, among other things, excess temperature, overpressure and vacuum. In the area of temperature …

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