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- From: schuch@phx.mcd.mot.com (John Schuch)
- Subject: Re: Where to mount an outside temp probe on a car?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.134028.27684@phx.mcd.mot.com>
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 13:40:28 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan4.002944.6494@sequent.com> washer@sequent.com (Jim "Throw it over the wall" Washer) writes:
- >I'd like to mount a temp probe on my car to sample the air temp. I'd like
- >to get as accurate a reading as possible (without exceeding some reasonable
- >cost).
- >My biggest concern is getting false reading if the probe gets wet, and reads
- >too low due to evaporation..
- >Has anyone done this? Where did you mount the probe... How did you protect it?
-
- I think I'd try either in the trunk, or inside one of the tail-light
- assemblies first. At sixty miles per hour, the airstream hitting the
- sensor will cool it nearly as much as being wet. You need to find
- someplace outside of the airstream, where it wont get wet, and it's
- not near any heat source.
-
- The glove box? :-)
- John
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