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Thermometrics has lanched a rebranding for 2011. The new corporate brand, encompassing changes to their web site, logo, and business/marketing plan, positions Thermometrics Corporation to offer the same top caliber services as before while enabling them to communicate more effectively with their clients.
Visitors to www.thermometricscorp.com will find more detailed and expanded sections on services and products offered, temperature tutorials, and expanded corporate and principal background information further emphasizing Thermometrics commitment to providing their clients with reliable solutions that represent the highest level of quality and value.
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RTDs vs. Thermocouples
Selecting the right temperature sensors for each application requires a close examination of the requirements.
Imagine you are an instrumentation engineer looking at the prints for a new
plant, and you see the many locations marked out for temperature transducers.
You wonder, what exactly has been specified to fill each space? Thermocouples,
because of the lower cost and familiarity, or RTDs, for the high accuracy and
linearity?
Temperature transducer selection affects many aspects of the design and
installation of the equipment in the plant such as:
- •The type of wire that needs to be run.
- •The type of instrument that will be in the control room on the other
end of that wire.
- •Whether there will be local junction boxes with terminal strips or
transmitters. And, if so, what type of transmitter is required.
- •Whether any special piping considerations need to be made to install
or protect the sensor or to provide the required response time.
These are just some of the details, and the actual sensor selection and design
has not even been discussed yet. Looking at the big picture can help narrow
down the choices in a logical way. Look first at survival of the sensor and
then the finer points such as any performance requirements
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