[Elecraft] Temperature Sensors

[K5HM]

Thanks for all the helpful suggestions. Yes, I learned all the temperature conversion formulas in high school chemistry.  

Unfortunately, I don't live in the metric universe, I just visit it.  

With all the complicated things the K3 firmware does, it seems that Celsius to Fahrenheit would be an easy and convenient feature to have.


73,
Ron, K5HM
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From: Elecraft [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Kevin Stover
Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2014 8:12 AM
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Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Temperature Sensors

I ditto the use of Convert.
It's not just for engineers.


On 6/21/2014 10:37 PM, Mark via Elecraft wrote:
> 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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