further, calling it anything else would be confusing. This IS the technical term for this reference temperature.
C On 9/9/2016 2:03 PM, Colin Law wrote: > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Owfs-developers mailing list Owfs-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/owfs-developers
