RTDs

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Anonymous Poster	RTDs 11/23/2010 11:52 PM
	If an RTD is open circuit what will the reading be?
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JRaef Guru Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: California, USA, where the Godless live next door to God. Posts: 4665 Good Answers: 804	#1 Re: RTDs 11/23/2010 11:58 PM
	Think it through a little. RTD = Resistance Thermal Device. You are measuring resistance as it changes with temperature. But if the wire breaks, what is the resistance of an open circuit? __________________ All I every really wanted to be, was... A LUMBERJACK!.
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34point5 Guru Join Date: May 2010 Location: in optimism Posts: 4050 Good Answers: 130	#2 In reply to #1 Re: RTDs 11/24/2010 5:11 AM
	GA __________________ There is no sin except stupidity. (Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900))
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