Switchbox Applications 47
Chapter 2
The procedure to make temperature measurements is:
1 Measure the resistance of the 5 K
Ω
thermistor on the terminal module
(
7KUBRKPV
). A 4-wire ohms measurement should be made to avoid
measurement errors by the 100
Ω
protection resistors (see "Example:
Four-Wire Resistance Measurements").
2 Compute the temperature of the terminal module (
7UHI
) from the
reading (
7KUBRKPV
). For values of resistance between 92.7
Ω
to
3.685E6
Ω
, use the following equation to calculate the temperature
of the terminal module, where
7UHI
= temperature in degrees C and
7KUBRKPV
= the resistance of the 5 K
Ω
thermistor, W = ln (
7KUBRKPV
),
$
= 1.28463E-3,
%
= 0.23625E-3, and
&
= 9.2697E-8.
7UHI ^$:%&::`
3 Measure voltage on the thermocouple connected to a channel (
9W
).
4 Compute the effective temperature at the external thermocouple
junction by doing the following two steps:
•
Compute the actual voltage across the external thermocouple
junction using
9WF
7H[WHUQDO
9
PHWHU
9WF
7UHI
where
9
PHWHU
is the
actual voltmeter reading and
9WF
7UHI
is the voltage across the
selected thermocouple type at the terminal module temperature
(
7UHI
). This voltage must be evaluated from tabular data for the
selected thermocouple.
•
Evaluate the actual thermocouple temperature using the
9WF
7H[WHUQDO
value and the tabular data for the selected
thermocouple.
5 Compute the compensated voltage (V) by the formula:
9 9W9UHI
.
6 Convert the compensated voltage (V) calculated in Step 4 to
temperature. This is the actual temperature measured by the
thermocouple.
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