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- From: rubin@clam.cis.ohio-state.edu (Daniel Rubin)
- Subject: Re: Where to mount an outside temp probe on a car?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.050543.28601@cis.ohio-state.edu>
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- Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 05:05:43 GMT
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- >>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.
-
- Hmmm... You cannot get the probe any cooler than the temperature of the
- air flowing around it no matter how fast the air is flowing! If anything
- the friction of the air moving across the sensor would heat it up. Now if
- it is wet then the air will aid to evaporate the water on the sensor which
- takes heat of evaporation from the sensor thereby lowering it's temperature.
- Dry air flow around the sensor will not provide false readings unless
- excessive friction is created!
-
- - Dan
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- Daniel Joseph Rubin rubin@cis.ohio-state.edu
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- GO BENGALS! GO BUCKS!
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