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- From: kcc@pt.com (Kevin Chalker)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Temp sensor with PC interface?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.184756.2304@pt.com>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 18:47:56 GMT
- References: <1992Nov2.092127.60298@cc.usu.edu> <1992Nov4.133127.739@blurt.oswego.edu>
- Organization: Performance Technologies, Incorporated
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- In article <1992Nov4.133127.739@blurt.oswego.edu> mulvey@blurt.oswego.edu (Allen Mulvey, SUNY, Oswego, NY) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov2.092127.60298@cc.usu.edu>, slh1y@cc.usu.edu (Jay Cliburn) writes:
- >> Can anyone recommend an ambient air temperature sensor which interfaces
- >> to a PC? It doesn't need to be very sophisticated or super accurate, I
- >> just want to use my computer to monitor the temperature in a room and
- >> report when the temperature exceeds limits.
- >>
- >> Thanks in advance.
- >> --
- >> Jay Cliburn jay@prometheus.idec.sdl.usu.edu
- >> slh1y@cc.usu.edu
- >
- >You should be able to rig a thermistor with an adjusting potentiometer
- >across a joystick analog input. You would probably have to write your own
- >software to monitor it.
- >
- > Allen Mulvey
- > mulvey@blurt.oswego.edu
-
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- Radio Shack sells an electronic thermometer module (~$20) that allows you
- to program high/low temperature alarms. You could connect this output
- to a parallel port on your PC.
-