[Elecraft] Temperature Sensors

[Charlie T, K3ICH]

Personally, I can't WAIT until we endorse the metric system.  Then we'll 
only have ten months so we can completely eliminate those nasty January's 
and February's.

Chas


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark via Elecraft" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
To: <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2014 11:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Temperature Sensors


> Don said:  “Yes, but you have to do a bit of math.”
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> …or use one of the most useful pieces of software ever written (for an 
> engineer, anyway), Convert (http://joshmadison.com/).  I used it 
> throughout my career which required skills in both metric and imperial 
> systems.  Like Morse Code or learning a new language, it gets easy after 
> you do it for a while, but usually conversion isn’t really necessary.  All 
> modern electronic components are spec’d in metric.  Electronic power and 
> temperatures limits have always been in metric units, even for old tubes, 
> so it makes sense that Elecraft chose to display Deg. C.
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> Keeping a few key temperatures in mind really helps.  Water freezes at 0 
> deg. C, 20 deg. C is about room temperature, 70 deg. C is uncomfortable to 
> touch, and water boils at 100 deg. C and will definitely hurt to touch. 
> Write this down, keep it in front of you.  Get familiar with a few 
> component spec sheets for some of the components in your radio whose 
> temperatures are displayed, and you will soon start thinking in “degrees 
> Celsius”.
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> Learn, learn, learn.  It will keep you young!
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> Regards,
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> Mark
> ars: KE6BB
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