Re: ds1820 temperature sensors and epoxy question

["the_home_automator <db@xxxxxxx>" <db@xxxxxxx>]

Ahhh... heatshrink, one of my favorite materials.

Most of the srinkage is in terms of diameter.  You'll often see it
quoted as diameter before and diameter after shrinking.

Available in a vast range of colours and sizes, and also some
varieties have a meltable adhesive on the inside, which makes for
great waterproof sealing.

As to the tool; a hot air gun is in my experience the tool of choice,
but you need one with continuous heat control.  Experiment to find a
stting which causes hrinkage to ocur within a few seconds of
aplicaion.

My lovery many year old variable heat black and decker expired a few
months back; I'm now using a Power Devil thing which I think cost 16
quid from Macro.  Its very "agricultral" compared to the B&D,
but at
a fifth of the price I'm not complaining, it works entirely
adequately.

David.

Heat srink tip - label your cables - print up lables on your inkjet,
and place them under clear heatshrink to permanently label the cable.

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Stephen <mail@s...> wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 14:49:38 -0000, you wrote:
>
> >Araldite should be fine.
> >But you might be better off using heatshrink tubing. It's look
nicer,
> >and is easier to work with.
>
> Hello again,
>
> I was looking into this heat shrink but I have never used it before.
> Where is best to get it from? CPC? I saw some on their web site but
it
> says to heat to 120C to get it to shrink. How do you do this? Won't
> that damage the ic?
>
> What do you do cut twice as much off as you will need? Does it
shrink
> to half its width or half its length? For a transistor (well
> transistor like ic in this case), what diameter tubing will I
require?
>
> Thanks,