Trim Temp/Humidity Probe Leads?

[Indie]

Hello!

I'm finally building my curing chamber after having the parts sit around for the better part of two years (STC-1000 and a WH8040).

Thinking out loud:

To make the build a little tidier I'd like to trim off some of the excess wire on the probes, though I can't find a good answer on if the units require the resistance in the length of wire.

If the resistance of the wire isn't as big a concern, I'm pondering wiring the temp and humidity probes to some Cat6 I have laying around to get them both into the chamber over a single cable.

Thoughts?

 

[Beholder]

The STC uses a thermistor, which measures temperature based on resistance. A change in wire length will change the calibrated accuracy of the unit, but based on the lengths, will be fractions of a degree, which is within the accuracy of a thermistor anyhow.

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

Yeah, I just looked it up, and a typical resistance of a thermistor at room temp is about 10K ohms. The wire is effectively 0 ohms. So trimming the length of the wire should have no discernable effect.