On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 08:04:45AM +1000, Martin Visser wrote: > Risking totally going off-topic but analog thermistors are so old-school! > ;-)
I bought a couple of LM335A (?) at the same time, but I figured I'd get it working as well as possible with the basic thermistor to start. > Check out the DS18B20. Same size as transistor (TO-220) but is digitally > (one-wire serial) connected. No need for all that analog stuff and > curve-fitting. These are uniquely address, thus polled if need be (dozens on > the one bus) and can be metres from the microcontroller. (Well I have one on > the end of 30 metre roll of alarm cable). Sure a few bucks versus a few > cents, but wow. It's on my TODO list. Nick. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
