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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/28/2014 01:08 PM, Pete Soper
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/27/2014 11:47 PM, Scott Hall
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Are you trying to use it to measure
atmospheric temperatures? It was designed to measure chip
temperature, to help you program a shutdown or minimizing
sequence before the magic smoke comes out. At work last year
we used it to activate a peizo cooling element as needed, but
minimized activation for longer battery life. We always used
an external sensor for environmental conditions.<br>
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I'm trying to understand how calibration relates to the accuracy
of this sensor and the 84A datasheet is worthless for that. Ron
Craig pointed me to exactly the right Atmel <a
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href="http://www.atmel.com/images/doc8108.pdf">app note</a> that
makes it clear that the sensor isn't at all linear and to get to
+/- 2C takes a pair of calibration points for <b>each</b> span of
10-20 degrees across the range of interest. I would have guessed
that support for temperature compensation is the aim of this kind
of sensor in this kind of chip. <br>
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-Pete<br>
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You just rang a big bell: I remember that from work last year -- we
had a table of 16 data points for calibration from -20°C to +55°C
for our main temperature sensor. And similar tables to adjust CO<sub>2</sub>,
humidity and pressure sensors. I forgot about it because by the
time I had to deal with the data, values were already converted to
°F, percent relative, parts per million, and millibars Hg.<br>
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Scott G. Hall
Raleigh, NC, USA
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ScottGHall1@GMail.Com">ScottGHall1@GMail.Com</a>
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