On 9 September 2016 at 15:20, Matthias Urlichs <matth...@urlichs.de> wrote: > On 09.09.2016 15:50, Uwe Bonnes wrote: >> So you mean that */temperature* should return the thermocouple temperature >> and */thermocouple should vanish and */coldjunction (or a similar name) >> should appear and return the internal temperature? >> >> This sounds also much clearer to me and I will try to make a patch to the >> docs and the code, if I get confirmation that this approch is right. > For what it's worth, I can confirm that this makes sense. >> Any other ideas for a sensible filename to return internal temperature? > I'd use "reference_temperature" or some suitable abbreviation thereof. > Don't forget that this is not always the *cold* junction, you can use a > thermocouple to measure how cold your liquid nitrogen or CO2 is …
Whether it is hotter or colder than the thermocouple it is still known as the cold junction. If you call it that then anyone used to using thermocouples will know what you mean. Colin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Owfs-developers mailing list Owfs-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/owfs-developers
