What is a Thermocouple?
Sensing temperature is an essential process for many activities that occur all around us. Think of the air conditioning that is making your room comfortable, the automobiles driving down the road, the aircraft flying overhead, or even the power plant that is generating the electricity you are currently using. Those activities may be quite different […]
What is a Thermistor?
The necessity for temperature sensing is all around us. Transportation, food processing, the manufacturing of goods, and virtually every other activity in our modern world requires the collection and interpretation of temperature data. Thermistors play an important role in the collection of this information. They are not the only way to measure temperature so be […]
How do RTD Temperature Probes Work?
Temperature sensing is an essential part of industrial and manufacturing processes, but it’s easy to gloss over how this data is collected. Measured temperatures do not magically show up on monitors or appear as inputs for controllers to act upon. Hence there are many types of specialized sensors out there gathering and relaying this critical […]
