NTC THERMISTOR AS A HEAT DETECTOR

Joshua Javier1 Ram Nickson Ramos2 Wendell Cano3

500
400
300

f(x) = 322.67 ln(x) - 1032.09

R = 1

CIRCUIT INTEGRATION

HEAT

Voltage Integer
Equivalent

200

Logarithmic (Voltage
Integer Equivalent)

100Wide range of
0
applications
20
40
60
80
100

Institute of Mathematical Sciences

Readily
available

THERMISTO

120
and Physics CAS, UP Los Baos

Figure 1.1 Temperature detector full schematic set-up.

Thermistors or resistance
thermometers are semiconductor
devices which are mainly used
for temperature measurement.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

BRIDGE
Figure 2 Temperature-voltage curves of the 10k thermistor.

Bridge controlled circuits are often used

in many applications.
The voltage is varied by changing the
resistance of one of the arms of the
birdge

METHODOLOGY

Percent Error:
(8.22%)
CONCLUSION

Accurate (8.22%)
Applicable for 0 -99oC
NTC thermisotr heat detector
verified

CALIBRATION

igure 1.1 Temperature sensor set-up.

REFERENCES
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Hugh D. Young, Roger A. Freedman, A. Lewis Ford, Sears and

Zemanskys - University Physics: with Modern Physics 13 th Ed.,
Pearson Education Inc., USA, 2012
Thomas L. Floyd. Electronic devices: Electron Flow version 9 th
Ed., Chapter 2, Prentice Hall Publishing, New Jersey, 2012
http://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/io/io_3.html
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/mastascu/eLessonsHTML/Senso
rs/TempThermCpl.html
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/mastascu/eLessonsHTML/Senso
rs/TempR.html