The Designer's Guide.
For over 50 years, the Thermo Electric Designer's Guide has been the industry handbook for designing and building the right temperature sensor for a specific industrial application.
The Industry Handbook
Decades of temperature-sensor design knowledge, organized by application
Each section below covers a family of sensors and assemblies — with construction styles, process connections, materials and configuration details to help you specify the right solution. Browse a section to explore its pages, or reach out and our engineering team will help you design to spec.
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Fourteen sections covering the full range of Thermo Electric sensors
Industrial Thermocouple
Threaded, socket-weld, weld-in, flanged and Van Stone assemblies, pipe wells, ceramocouples and connection heads.
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Industrial RTD
Threaded, socket-weld, weld-in, flanged and Van Stone RTD assemblies, pipe wells, oil seals and connection heads.
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Immersion Thermocouple
Connector and lead-wire styles in fiberglass, PVC, Teflon and armored, plus plastic melt-bolt thermocouples.
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Immersion RTD
LT, MT, CE and HT types with connector, lead-wire and armored options, field-adjustable and hex-fitting RTDs.
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Surface Mount TC & RTD
Gasket, bayonet, tubeskin and magnet thermocouples and RTDs for surface temperature measurement.
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Multicouples
Free-hanging, spring-loaded, multitube and miniature profiling multipoint assemblies, plus averaging boxes.
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Wafer Temperature Sensors
TC-350, TC-700, TC-1200 and BTC700 wafer sensors engineered for semiconductor processing.
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Pharmaceutical & Biotech
CIP and bevel-seat RTDs and thermocouples, L.I.S.T. II transmitters and sanitary thermowells.
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ATEX Approved TC & RTD
Flameproof and intrinsically safe assemblies and thermowells for use in hazardous, explosive atmospheres.
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Thermowells & Protection Tubes
Drilled socket, weld-in, threaded, flanged and Van Stone thermowells, plus metallic and ceramic protection tubes.
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Connectors
Standard and miniature quick-coupling connectors — 2-pin, 3-pin, duplex and ultra-temp.
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Thermocouple & RTD Panels
2-pin and 3-pin jack and plug panels in standard, miniature and phenolic styles, up to 24 circuits.
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Thermocouple Wires
PVC, Teflon (FEP/TFE/PFA), Kapton, fiberglass, Q-glass, silica and ceramic insulated wire and cable.
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Technical Reference
Thermocouple theory and calibration, sheath materials, mineral-insulated cable, RTD circuitry and thermowell selection.
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