Re: Question regarding thermocouples and a voltage terminal block

On 13 Dec 2006 08:13:57 -0800, the renowned "kd6532" <kd6532@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

Right now some peers and myself are designing a pv module testing
system, in which, one of the things we will be testing is temperature.
To do so we will be using four thermocouples on each solar panel, and
we wanted to join the four into a voltage terminal block to reduce the
amount of wires we will be running to our multi tracer. The problem is
we are having trouble finding a terminal block that will establish a
CLEAN connection and allow us to connect the four wires in and have
just one coming out for both the copper and constantan leads. Is their
a better way to approach this? We found one promising terminal block at
Phoenix Conacts that is specifically constructed for thermocouples
composed of copper/constantan, but four leads cannot go into one of the
inputs, and the tech. support basically told us to try another route.
Any suggestions are welcomed, and thanks for your time.

Kris

I don't understand- are you paralleling the T/Cs? If so, for type T,
just solder the leads together and be done with it.



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