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Temperature SensorNews back copies are also archived and accessible through the News page page in the event you miss one or need to check something you saw months earlier. The first Newsletter is dated September 2001!

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Featured New Product

Miller & Weber's New Line of Non-Mercury, Liquid-in-Glass Thermometers with claimed performance equivalent to mercury

PerformaTherm's blue liquid is safer than both mercury and most traditional spirit thermometer liquids. The proprietary formula is biodegradable, nontoxic, noncaustic, and nonhazardous. PerformaTherm is a revolutionary new thermometer unlike any on the market today. They meet all ASTM standards for accuracy, tolerance and uncertainty. Each instrument is completely manufactured in an ISO-9001 certified New York facility, then certified at five points in an ISO/IEC Guide 25 Accredited Laboratory.

PerformaTherm thermometers are available in protective blue leatherette cases, both individually and in sets, in either Celsius or Fahrenheit calibration. Each thermometer is supplied with a two page report of calibration including the corrections to the nearest 1/10th scale division, and the NIST traceability, uncertainty and test methods used.

Here's Miller and Weber's comparison data for the new product line and mercury and spirit filled thermometers from their webpages. There's more on the web site and catalog.

Miller & Weber, Inc.
1637 George Street
Ridgewood, Queens NY 11385-5342

Tel: (718) 821-7110
Fax: (718) 821-1673
http://www.millerweber.com

Questions: email info@millerweber.com

NEW Links of Interest - November 2001

Check out these new and interesting links from our Links Page

OEM Technology http://OEM technology.com/
A unique Website dedicated to bringing the needs of engineering, product development, production & assembly managers at Original Equipment Manufacturers of electronic and sensor-based products and systems together. It operates more than 79 unique websites called the Technology Data Exchange. Worth a look or two especially if you are a product designer or manufacturer seeking components!

Thermistor Vendors The thermistor vendor list has been updated with several new (to this site) vendors listed and more descriptions of the vendor's specialties provided

Page Updates

Home Page -New sections and pages added as described elsewhere on this update.

Thermistors This page has had a major facelift, to the point of being more complete than some of the older pages on the technology of sensors. The thermistor business is a really active one with lots of websites many of which have great, indepth information about the technology and uses of thermistors, both NTC and PTC types.

Thermistor Vendors The thermistor vendor list is frankly huge. We have tried to do justice to it and believe we have a better set of vendor links than just about any site on the web!

Steel Applications The outline of intended applications coverage for both Thermocouple and Infrared temperature sensors; now includes some full copies of technical papers on use of Infrared Spot and Thermal Imaging sensors in Steel Mills and why certain types of these sensors perform better than others. Watch for further expansion. We find, too that some of the web sites of IR thermometer vendors have increaed/improved their applications information, some in this area; look for new links to them!

Slag Detection By IR Thermography The two promised technical papers have been finally added. One is in pdf format, the other in HTML.

New Pages

Temperature Sensors in Medical Applications (Started)
The use of temperature sensors in the many fields of medicine is something most everyone appreciates. Who hasn't had their "temperature" taken with an oral, or recently, with an ear thermometer? There's many uses and this section of the site looks like an area that will challenge the original intent to look only at industrial temperature sensors. However, this area has a certain appeal to the site's manager since he spent a good part of his early career working in the biomedical area measuring, or attempting to model thermal injury thresholds and/or measure, temperature of biological objects that had been irradiated with a laser beam. Come back often to see how this area expands.

Temperature Scales and conversions between them How many temperature scales do you think there are and have been? This page provides information about the various temperature scales and the formulae for making conversions between them. We believe that we have corraled most of them, but if you think we missed one or more, please let us know.

Next Month's Plans

An update to improve the flavor of the pages on Data Acquisition and Electronics with more information discovered at the October Sensors Show in Philadelphia and since then. Another very dynamic area!

A review of a NEW SPIE book on IR temperature measurement errors has been moved to the December issue of TemperatureSensorNews. from the November issue-there was too much other "stuff" going on at the workfront to enable the completion of this review. The book has been added to the list of available temperature reference works of the References Page.

COMMENTS + END NOTES

There have been a few additions to the References Page, if you are interested. Especially note worthy is the1968 publication by NBS which had been overlooked. It's a collection of papers from NBS workers on temperatures scales and more in the 1960's.

We have had several requests to add some listing for Manufacturer's Reps and Distributors to this site. It would be limited to those who specialize in temperature sensors and related products. What do you think? We'd appreciate your feedback. Just click to email.