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pyrometer - data logging

updated wed 16 nov 05

 

Matt MacIntire on tue 15 nov 05


The recent thread about pyrometers reminded me to ask...

Has anyone found any (affordable) ways to connect a volt meter to a
computer serial port and log the data?

If you have, please tell me more about your equipment and software.


With such a setup one could automatically log the temperature data over
time, import the table into a spreadsheet and graph the firing. In
principle this would seem fairly straight forward. I'm not an EE, nor a
programmer, so I have not done this on my own. Though I have seen some
web sites with schematics and code to make this work. Those were from a
while ago. I wonder if anyone is making a logging pyrometer yet.