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Eliwell IC901 Plus NTC thermistor probe resistance temperature table

For those who want to know the temperature-resistance data for NTC probe used in Eliwell IC901 digital temperature controller. The following is the data:

Temp [°C]	Resistance [kΩ]
-40	188.5
-39	178.5
-38	169
-37	160.2
-36	151.9
-35	144.1
-34	136.7
-33	129.8
-32	123.3
-31	117.1
-30	111.3
-29	105.7
-28	100.5
-27	95.52
-26	90.84
-25	86.43
-24	82.26
-23	78.33
-22	74.61
-21	71.1
-20	67.77
-19	64.57
-18	61.54
-17	58.68
-16	55.97
-15	53.41
-14	50.98
-13	48.68
-12	46.5
-11	44.43
-10	42.47
-9	40.57
-8	38.77
-7	37.06
-6	35.44
-5	33.9
-4	32.44
-3	31.05
-2	29.73
-1	28.48
0	27.28
1	26.13
2	25.03
3	23.99
4	23
5	22.05
6	21.15
7	20.3
8	19.48
9	18.7
10	17.96
11	17.24
12	16.56
13	15.9
14	15.28
15	14.69
16	14.12
17	13.58
18	13.06
19	12.56
20	12.09
21	11.63
22	11.2
23	10.78
24	10.38
25	10
26	9.632
27	9.281
28	8.944
29	8.622
30	8.313
31	8.014
32	7.728
33	7.454
34	7.192
35	6.94
36	6.699
37	6.467
38	6.245
39	6.032
40	5.827
41	5.629
42	5.438
43	5.255
44	5.08
45	4.911
46	4.749
47	4.593
48	4.443
49	4.299
50	4.16
51	4.026
52	3.896
53	3.771
54	3.651
55	3.536
56	3.425
57	3.318
58	3.215
59	3.116
60	3.02
61	2.927
62	2.838
63	2.751
64	2.668
65	2.588
66	2.511
67	2.436
68	2.364
69	2.295
70	2.228
71	2.163
72	2.1
73	2.039
74	1.98
75	1.924
76	1.869
77	1.816
78	1.765
79	1.716
80	1.668
81	1.622
82	1.577
83	1.533
84	1.492
85	1.451
86	1.412
87	1.373
88	1.336
89	1.301
90	1.266
91	1.232
92	1.2
93	1.168
94	1.137
95	1.108
96	1.079
97	1.051
98	1.024
99	0.9984
100	0.9731
101	0.9484
102	0.9246
103	0.9014
104	0.8789
105	0.8572
106	0.836
107	0.8155
108	0.7956
109	0.7763
110	0.7576

Based on the previous data, this NTC sensor can be modeled using very accurate Steinhart-Hart equation with following constants:

T=1/(0.0008895550077+0.000250946909*Ln(1000*R)+0.0000001960216692*(Ln(1000*R))^3)

Where temperature is measured in degrees Kelvin [K] and resistance is measured in kOhm.

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Prolific USB driver for Windows 10

The latest driver is not compatible with Windows 10. If you update the using device manager, it will install the latest version which is not compatible. After some internet search, the following driver is compatible with Windows 10, you can download it from this link

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Excel VBA read LabView date time stamp

To read a binary file you have to know the structure of it. In my case I was trying to read binary file written by LabVIEW-based software which records measurement data. The file represent a one-dimensional array of clusters, the cluster has two elements: TimeDate stamp and double precision number.

According to the following link http://www.ni.com/tutorial/7900/en/

LabVIEW 7.0 or earlier used a 64-bit double (DBL) to represent time, yielding 15 digits of precision. The number of seconds between 1st Jan 1904 (the time stamp Epoch or year zero) to 1st Jan 2000 is 3027456000. Representing this as a DBL would use 10 out of the 15 digits of precision. That leaves a very small resolution space to perform hardware timings using most of the resolution by simply going from 1904 to today.  Representing time as a DBL was not ideal since it did not meet industry requirements.

In MS office the date reference is year 1900, while LabVIEW date reference is year 1904. So, in calculations we will compensate this date reference difference. Number of days difference is 1462 days.

' Function to convert binary to decimal Function BinaryToDecimal(ByVal Binary As String) As Double Dim BinaryNum As Double Dim BitCount As Integer For BitCount = 1 To Len(Binary) BinaryNum = BinaryNum + (CDbl(Mid(Binary, Len(Binary) - BitCount + 1, 1)) * (2 ^ (BitCount - 1))) Next BitCount BinaryToDecimal = BinaryNum End Function

' Function to convert 64-bit binary to double-precision float Function BinaryStringToDouble(ByVal BinaryString As String) As Double Dim i, Sign, Exponent, BitCounter As Integer Dim Fraction, DoubleNo As Double 'Read number sign Sign = (-1) ^ CLng(Mid(BinaryString, 1, 1))     'Most-significant bit ' Read exponent Exponent = BinaryToDecimal(Mid(BinaryString, 2, 11)) ' Read the fraction Fraction = 0 BitCounter = 0 For i = 13 To Len(BinaryString) BitCounter = BitCounter + 1 Fraction = Fraction + (2 ^ (-BitCounter)) * CDbl(Mid(BinaryString, i, 1)) Next i BinaryStringToDouble = Sign * (1 + Fraction) * 2 ^ (Exponent - 1023) End Function

' Function to convert LabView date-time-stamp to string date and time Function DoubleToDateTime(ByVal LVDateTimeStamp As Double) As String    ' input LabVIEW DateTime stamp (64-bit double precision number) Dim RefOffset As Double Dim MSDateTimeStamp As Double Dim MSDate As Double Dim DateString As String Dim DayElapsedTime_sec, Hours, Minutes, Seconds As Double RefOffset = 126316800     'Reference offset in seconds 1462[days]*24[h/day]*60[Min/h]*60[sec/Min] 'Convert it to Microsoft DateTime stamp: number of seconds from 1-Jan-1900 MSDateTimeStamp = LVDateTimeStamp + RefOffset MSDate = Application.WorksheetFunction.Floor(MSDateTimeStamp / 86400, 1)    ' number of days from 1900 ' 86400: number of seconds per day DateString = CStr(CDate(MSDate)) DayElapsedTime_sec = MSDateTimeStamp - MSDate * 86400+7200    'Egypt time = UTC time + 2 hours (7200 sec) Hours = Application.WorksheetFunction.Floor(DayElapsedTime_sec / 3600, 1) Minutes = Application.WorksheetFunction.Floor((DayElapsedTime_sec - Hours* 3600) / 60, 1) Seconds = DayElapsedTime_sec - Hours * 3600 - Minutes * 60 DoubleToDateTime = DateString + " " + CStr(Hours) + ":" + CStr(Minutes) + ":" + CStr(Round(Seconds, 0)) End Function

References:

http://www.binaryconvert.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-precision_floating-point_format

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