Email: Password: Remember Me | Create Account (Free)

Back to Subject List

Old thread has been locked -- no new posts accepted in this thread
???
10/12/10 12:52
Read: times


 
#179068 - quite common problem with resolution/precision
Responding to: ???'s previous message
I guess it would be enough to just take the Maxim sensor and present the temperature with one decimal and don't think twice about it. The customer don't know what he needs/wants except that it should look good. Why else require that it matches the reading of a Fluke?

And if you use a DS2438 Smart Battery Monitor, you get a resolution of 1/32°C. So cool to show the temperature as 11.3125°C. After all, if you do got the digits, what reason is there to wonder about that 0.5°C measurement error within the narrower temperature range or 2°C at the end of the measurement range?

The advantage with a Dallas sensor is that it has quite small drift from aging and already produces a digital result. If you want to, you can apply a correction table to "draw" the measured value closer to a reference thermometer if the goal isn't to be correct, but to have multiple thermometers show very similar results. In some situations, the repeatability is more important that the absolute tolerances.

List of 24 messages in thread
TopicAuthorDate
Measure temperature @0.1deg resolution using thermistor            01/01/70 00:00      
   Sorry - doesn't work            01/01/70 00:00      
      Thermistors aren't such bad...            01/01/70 00:00      
         Remember the original requirement of 0.1°C            01/01/70 00:00      
   Resolution is not there...            01/01/70 00:00      
      What about the Termistor            01/01/70 00:00      
      RE: Resolution is not there...            01/01/70 00:00      
         one-wire sensors are still quite expensive than thermistors            01/01/70 00:00      
            Thermistor Vs one-wire sensor cost            01/01/70 00:00      
               Your processor has a voltage reference good enough?            01/01/70 00:00      
                  Voltage reference            01/01/70 00:00      
                     That voltage reference has large error...            01/01/70 00:00      
                  Vref is Not Needed            01/01/70 00:00      
                     Depends            01/01/70 00:00      
                        Ah but,            01/01/70 00:00      
                           Still not trivial            01/01/70 00:00      
         The normal fluke doesn't give 0.1C correct readings            01/01/70 00:00      
         I think your customer ...            01/01/70 00:00      
            quite common problem with resolution/precision            01/01/70 00:00      
         linearing only solves one issue            01/01/70 00:00      
            Precision            01/01/70 00:00      
               hm            01/01/70 00:00      
               Not an opamp            01/01/70 00:00      
               Comparison with Fluke a big problem            01/01/70 00:00      

Back to Subject List