Re: Household temperature sensors

["Simon Coates" <ecolume@xxxxxxx>]

Quinten,

Chances are they use a thermistor or a thermocouple - a DS18S20 would be
too
expensive and
unnecessary in such a cheap device.

Simon


----- Original Message -----
From: Quinten Uijldert <yahoogroups@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_1wire@xxxxxxx>
Cc: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: 30 December 2002 11:02
Subject: [ukha_d] Household temperature sensors


> Hi all,
>
> Sorry for the cross-post, but I'm not too sure where to ask
this.  Does
> anyone know if those household temperature sensors (you know the ones
with
a
> small lcd display, and can be had for a fiver), use the DS1820 for
their
> sampling, or is it likely some other sensor ?
>
> If they use the DS1820, could you somehow use these with the
temperature
> logger that Quasar Electronics sell (the one that allows up to 4
DS1820's
on
> a serial port), and still maintain the local display of the
temperature ?
>
> Q.
>
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