{"id":664,"date":"2018-09-12T14:48:08","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T21:48:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-09-22T06:38:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T13:38:22","slug":"664","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/664","title":{"rendered":"How do you use the TCA-BTA to measure very low or very high temperatures more accurately?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The default data-collection range for the Thermocouple (TCA-BTA) is set to have the best accuracy between 0\u00b0C and 900\u00b0C. There are two other settings available for data collection if you would like increased accuracy at a lower temperature or a higher temperature.<br \/>\n\u2022 The low setting has the best accuracy for temperatures between \u2013200\u00b0C and 0\u00b0C.<br \/>\n\u2022 The high setting has the best accuracy for temperatures between 900\u00b0C and 1400\u00b0C.<\/p>\n<p>These different ranges can be accessed in Logger <i>Pro<\/i> or Logger Lite:<br \/>\n1. From the Experiment menu, select Calibrate.<br \/>\n2. Select your interface. This will open a new dialog box.<br \/>\n3. Click on the calibration storage tab, from the drop down menu under Current Calibration, select the temperature setting you would like to use.<br \/>\n4. Click on the Set Sensor Calibration button to store the low setting or high setting as the default calibration so that it can be used by default on other platforms (LabQuest, Chromebook, or mobile device, etc.). This action will bring up a new dialog box, click Set.<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively, you can use the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/gdx-tc\">Go Direct Thermocouple<\/a>. It auto-ranges and has a more consistent accuracy throughout the entire range.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The default data-collection range for the Thermocouple (TCA-BTA) is set to have the best accuracy between 0\u00b0C and 900\u00b0C. There are two other settings available&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11015,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[553,255,552],"class_list":["post-664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-tca-bta","tag-tca-din","tag-thermocouple"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}