On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Daniel MacKay <dan...@bonmot.ca> wrote: > I notice my DS18S20 and DS18B20 sensors, if there's a network failure or.. > perhaps a hardware failure from overheating the sensor when I'm soldering > wires onto the leads, reports "85" as the temperature. > > As far as I can tell the "crc8" value is correct in these instances. > > a) why does it do this? > b) this really is not a helpful number. if it was -999 then I could say, "ah > that's an error value" but 85 is a reasonable temperature for the stuff I'm > doing > c) is there any way to tell that this is an error 85 as opposed to the sensor > actually being at 85°C ? > > Many thanks.
Hello! How are they being powered? What sort of wiring method are you using? There's a lot we need to know before we can advise. -- ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Owfs-developers mailing list Owfs-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/owfs-developers
