ASTM E2877, Guide for Digital Contact Thermometers W. Conshohocken PA, USA — A new ASTM International standard provides a variety of recommendations for the manufacture and selection of digital thermometers. ASTM E2877, Guide for Digital Contact Thermometers, was developed by Subcommittee E20.09 on Digital Contact Thermometers, part of ASTM International Committee E20 on Temperature Measurement. [...]
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Thermometer Image: Courtesy FreeDigitalPhotos.net & mistermong USA — The USA’s National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) began an active mercury-reduction campaign in 2007, and stopped calibrating Mercury (Chemical symbol: Hg) thermometers entirely on March 1, 2011. A full range of thermometric calibration services continues for non-mercury devices according to the special NIST webpage at: [...]
One useful resource on RTD and Thermocouple sensors was found at Jim Pinto’s Writings section of his website, borrowed from the original article that he wrote for Instruments & Control Magazine in June 2000, at: www.jimpinto.com/writings/tempsensors.html. In the article Jim takes particular care to describe the likely errors that can occur with less-than-perfect cold junction [...]
The Guide to temperature is an introductory guide which aims to help first-time users who have no experience of how to measure temperature beyond what they may have picked up in school, college or everyday life. You can visit the Comment Page on this provisional Guide by Richard Rushby online at the comment webpage for [...]
Papers & Presentations “The Role of Standards & Calibration in IR Thermography”, Proceeding of IR/INFO 2012, Infraspection Institute, January 2012 “What Is Infrared Thermography?”, TempSensorNEWS, July 9, 2011 “Keeping up with Web & Smart Phone Trends”, MeasurementBlog, October 10, 2010 “Spectral Emissivity in Infrared Applications”, Proceeding of IR/INFO 2008, Infraspection Institute, January 2010 “Commissioning a New [...]
