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Re: Measuring CH water temperature?



On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Piers Kittel <mailing@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> For some reason, I now want to measure the temperature of my central
> heating system. While I could tape a temperature sensor on the pipe,
> I think the reading would be inaccurate and unreliable, I would like
> to be able to immerse the sensor in the water itself. I'm going to do
> a lot of plumbing with my central heating system soon, so I'd like to
> plumb in the sensors while the system's drained and pipes cut/
> disconnected, and connect the sensors up later on. Do anyone know of
> something like a short pipe and a temperature sensor embedded in the
> pipe ready for plumbing directly into a copper/plastic central heating
> system? If not, can I put something similar together without
> compromising the pressurised system? I don't fancy leaks like
> everyone else :)
>
> Thanks for your help in advance!
>
> Regards - Piers

Your plumber can fix this. Its standard stuff. PT-100 elements
usually. Comes in all types. Some types here
<http://www.tc.co.uk/gen/sensors.htm>

Cheers
/Ake

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