{"id":634,"date":"2020-11-02T17:48:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T17:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.minco.com\/?p=634"},"modified":"2023-12-12T17:58:15","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T17:58:15","slug":"mincos-dual-sensor-probes-offer-redundancy-and-convenience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minco.com\/mincos-dual-sensor-probes-offer-redundancy-and-convenience\/","title":{"rendered":"Minco\u2019s Dual Sensor Probes Offer Redundancy and Convenience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-635 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.minco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dual-TF-angle-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"749\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.minco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dual-TF-angle-3.png 749w, https:\/\/www.minco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dual-TF-angle-3-300x79.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 749px) 100vw, 749px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>By John Baichtal<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As humans we\u2019re kind of picky about temperature, so we use thermostats to control the heaters and air conditioners that maintain our relatively narrow comfort range. Similarly, many chemical, biological, electrical, and mechanical processes work best at specific temperatures and use sensors to help maintain those temperatures. In some applications, medical and aerospace in particular, maintaining a specific temperature is so critical to life and safety that redundant sensors are used to ensure reliability. In an aircraft application for example, hot air bleeds off the engine and is mixed to specific temperatures for everything from wing deicing to warming the cabin. The critical nature of an application like wing deicing is the justification for redundancy. A redundant sensor significantly reduces the probability of an undetected failure and improves the reliability needed for a plane full of passengers at 30,000 feet.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that redundancy increases the complexity of the system. It can double the cost of hardware\u2014two sensor elements, two probe cases, two sets of connectors. And it entails two installation locations, each needing to be drilled and threaded for assembly by the equipment manufacturer. That\u2019s why Minco offers customized dual sensors, which can actually cost less than two standalone sensors and require just one install, eliminating the labor cost of installing a second sensor. Everything else in the system\u2014controller, heater, wiring, etc.\u2014remains the same, and accuracy is identical to what you\u2019d get from two separate sensors installed side-by-side.<\/p>\n<p>Like individual sensors, dual probes come in several \u201cflavors.\u201d They can utilize wire-wound or thin-film elements, flexible\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.minco.com\/products\/temperature-sensors\/surface-sensors\/\">Thermal-Ribbon<\/a><sup>TM\u00a0<\/sup>sensors, or etched-foil RTDs. Each has its own advantages in terms of cost, temperature range, and thermal performance. If you already prefer a particular type of single element sensor you may choose to stay with that technology in moving to a dual sensor solution. Or it might be time to work with Minco engineers to reevaluate your requirements and see what dual sensors can do for your total cost of ownership.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.minco.com\/contact\/\">Contact us<\/a>\u00a0or download a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.minco.com\/resource-center\/?_sft_content_type=product-guides\">product guide<\/a>\u00a0today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As humans we\u2019re kind of picky about temperature, so we use thermostats to control the heaters and air conditioners that maintain our relatively narrow comfort range. Similarly, many chemical, biological, electrical, and mechanical processes work best at specific temperatures and use sensors to help maintain those temperatures. In some applications, medical and aerospace in particular, maintaining a specific temperature is so critical to life and safety that redundant sensors are used to ensure reliability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-temperature-sensors"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Minco\u2019s Dual Sensor Probes Offer Redundancy and Convenience - Minco<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.minco.com\/mincos-dual-sensor-probes-offer-redundancy-and-convenience\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Minco\u2019s Dual Sensor Probes Offer Redundancy and Convenience - Minco\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As humans we\u2019re kind of picky about temperature, so we use thermostats to control the heaters and air conditioners that maintain our relatively narrow comfort range. 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