HP / Agilent 34401A hidden menu

[iMo]

I looked up thermistor data for 2.2k, 5k, and 10k type B thermistors (which is what I think HP supported). They all have the same beta value. HP got a little lazy with the 7-5-2 firmware as all they would have had to do is scale the ohm readings for the 5k thermistor temperature table to support 2.2k and 10k thermistors.

I know this is some heavy math , but here goes:

Table lookup OHMS = measured OHMS * 5 / thermistor TYPE KOHMS - a whopping one line of code!

in fact, source code wouldn't even have to add one line of code.  Instead of table_lookup=measured_ohms, they could have changed it to table_lookup=measured_ohms*5/thermistor_type_kohms.

IMHO they do consider the "beta" of the thermistors as well.
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