I have the same provlem with mine, even though I made the splice with extreme care.
Geoff ----- Original Message ----- From: Dale Leavens To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 7:21 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Talking Thermometer Probably the reason is that the thermistor diode depends on resistance to determine temperature. It passes varying amounts of current depending on it's temperature. Your splice or possibly the length of the wire will present a slightly different resistance to the meter when it reads and so it assumes a different temperature and reports that. A sort of electronic version of parallax. I don't know for sure if that is the reason but it sounds convincing to me at least. Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Obregon, Phil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 1:17 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Talking Thermometer > Hi Folks, > Yesterday morning my wife pressed the speak button on our talking indoor > outdoor thermometer and was told that the outdoor temperature was 145 > degrees Fahrenheit. > Well, needless to say something was very wrong with that reading. > > I found that the window casing had cut into the probe wire. So, I cut > the bad place from the wire and spliced it back together. > > The thermometer appears to work again, but the outdoor temperature is > coming up about 7 degrees to high. > > This thermometer was purchased a couple years ago at radio shack. Does > anyone have any ideas about why the reading would be off after my wire > splicing effort? > > Thanks > > Phil > > > To listen to the show archives go to link > http://acbradio.org/handyman.html > or > ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > > The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. > http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > > The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. > http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml > > Visit The New Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From > Various List Members At The Following Address: > http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ > Visit the new archives page at the following address > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man > list just send a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.9/417 - Release Date: 11/08/2006 > > To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml Visit The New Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following Address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml Visit The New Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following Address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
