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Woody Brison
 
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Default Estimating Temperature by Touch

I vaguely remember an engineer mentioning an old rule of thumb
for quickly estimating temperatures on circuit boards: you put
your finger on a component, and it went something like this:

Feels cool ... 25 to 35 deg C
Neutral ... 37
Warm ... 40 to ?
Very warm ... ?
Hot ... ?
Makes a blister... ?

Does anybody have the numbers that go in here?

Wood