-------- In message <canx10ha776qb1y_j+t7mcawsn6vrp0velv5k13hhs6kdda9...@mail.gmail.com> , "Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)" writes:
>I can't find it now, but I know someone said thermocouples are obsolete. I >spoke to a friend tonight who services industrial boilders. He said >thermocouples are far from obsolesce, at temperatures of a few hundred deg >C, as nothing else works. Thermocouples are not obsolete. If nothing else because they are cheap and can be made on the spot and in all sorts of weird shapes. The only thing which competes with thermocouples in high temperature is platinum, which is horribly expensive by comparison and more prone to noise than thermocouples. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.