Re: [NTLK] Resistant thermistor

From: Johannes Wolf (jwolf_at_xe.estec.esa.nl)
Date: Fri Jan 25 2002 - 03:22:57 EST


Thats easy: a thermistor is in principle a (special) resistor.
Special because of its property to change its resistance with a high gradient over temperature.
This is intended and useful if you want to measure temperatures.

Johannes

-----Original Message-----
From: Grant [Mushy Peas] Hutchinson [SMTP:grant_at_splorp.com]
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 3:00 AM
To: Newton-Talk
Subject: Re: [NTLK] Resistant thermistor

In a previous message, Johannes Wolf typed vigorously:

>In German a thermistor = Thermistor
>and the "thing" which I consider to be a self resetting thermal switch
>would be called Thermoschalter / Thermosicherung.

But what about the Widerstandsthermometer?

g.

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