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This tool gives maximum freedom to the user for their application parameters. The first set of user defined parameters is titled: Input Current/Voltage values. The voltage supply can be freely defined based on the user’s application with a maximum of 20 Volts. Fundamentally, the resistance of a thermistor changes with temperature. Under a fixed voltage, the current flowing through the thermistor/resistor network will change accordingly.  Therefore, the user is required to select a so-called minimum average current. The minimum average current is defined as the average current flowing through the network over the desired temperature range. For example, some applications allow for, or require very low current consumption. One practical example is a remote battery for a fire detector where preserving the operational life of the device is critical. Other applications will require much higher currents when the user is reluctant to use high resistance values and possibly induction voltages in the application. When the current for the application is irrelevant, the best choice is always an intermediate value. For the voltage dependence vs. temperature, the user can input a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 10 pairs linking the temperature and the voltage. The following rules also must be taken into account. The values of temperature must be entered in increasing order, the associated voltage values must either increase or decrease with the temperature, and the minimum voltage must be higher than 5% of the power supply voltage Vcc while the maximum voltage must be lower than 95% of Vcc.

PTM Published on: 2013-10-17