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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: <1993Jan4.223650.9171@phx.mcd.mot.com>
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- References: <1993Jan4.002944.6494@sequent.com> <1993Jan4.134028.27684@phx.mcd.mot.com> <86134@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 22:36:50 GMT
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- In article <86134@ut-emx.uucp> lihan@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Bruce G. Bostwick) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan4.134028.27684@phx.mcd.mot.com>,
- >schuch@phx.mcd.mot.com (John Schuch) writes:
- >|>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
- >|>
- >|>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
- >
- >BZZZT! He _wanted_ the air temperature -- which means he _wants_ _maximum_
- >"cooling" of the sensor.
- >
-
- Excuse me but if you cool the sensor by placing it in an airstream, your
- not reading the actual temperature of the air. Reading a sensor cooled
- by an airstream, by itself, tells you nothing. If you measure one sensor
- in an airstream and another one nearby but shielded from the air stream,
- you can determine the speed of the airstream. Other than that, I don't
- know why you would want to cool the sensor.
-
- You will note that weather stations keep the thermometer in a little
- louvered box to break-up the wind. Even high-end indoor/outdoor
- thermometers include a little shell to place over the external
- sensor.
-
- John
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