slotimpossible
Dropping a PRTD into a thermistor slot—impossible?
Up front: some background. The air-temperature sensor attached to my (home-brew) rain gauge became flaky. Short-term solution: fix it (done). Longer-term goal: improve it (read on). That sensor is a standard Vishay NTC (negative temperature coefficient) thermistor: 10k at 25°C and with a beta value of 3977. In conjunction with a load resistor, it feeds…