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Measuring and displaying oil boiler temperature
I'd like to fit an operating temperature indicator to the oil boiler.
At the moment a mercury lab thermometer is puttied onto the outgoing (flow) pipe. It was one of those quick temporary fixes which became too permanent & it's now time to recover the said thermo. Any suggestions for a permanent replacement please? A simple and cheap-ish solution would be ideal. Accuracy takes second place to readinngs being consistent as I could calibrate against the mercury thermo. An ideal solution would be a digital display showing both flow & return temperatures. TIA |
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Measuring and displaying oil boiler temperature
On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 02:19:17 -0700, ironer wrote:
I'd like to fit an operating temperature indicator to the oil boiler. At the moment a mercury lab thermometer is puttied onto the outgoing (flow) pipe. It was one of those quick temporary fixes which became too permanent & it's now time to recover the said thermo. Any suggestions for a permanent replacement please? A simple and cheap-ish solution would be ideal. Accuracy takes second place to readinngs being consistent as I could calibrate against the mercury thermo. An ideal solution would be a digital display showing both flow & return temperatures. TIA ================================ A range of sizes he http://www.brannan.co.uk/products/hvc_clip.html Buy two to monitor your system flow / return. -- ================================ Testing UBUNTU Linux Everything working so far ================================ |
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Measuring and displaying oil boiler temperature
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "ironer" saying something like: I'd like to fit an operating temperature indicator to the oil boiler. At the moment a mercury lab thermometer is puttied onto the outgoing (flow) pipe. It was one of those quick temporary fixes which became too permanent & it's now time to recover the said thermo. Any suggestions for a permanent replacement please? A simple and cheap-ish solution would be ideal. Accuracy takes second place to readinngs being consistent as I could calibrate against the mercury thermo. An ideal solution would be a digital display showing both flow & return temperatures. There's plenty of small cheap digital multimeters with a temp sensor input - just connect a type K thermocouple to the pipe. If you want something mains powered for constant readouts, look on ebay. If it's only for a quick look from time to time, you could get a dual input digi thermometer (not that cheap) or simply use two cheap DVMs. -- Dave |
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