[sdiy] TEMPCO vs.THERMISTORS

[Tom Arnold]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 05:54:50PM -0300, tiago ventura wrote:
> Can I replace  expensive-hard-to-find TEMPCOS?s with THERMISTORS in
> temperature compensating circuits ???

Directly?  No.  One are PTC the other is NTC.  I always get them backwards.

However, look at Rene's 4069 VCO.  He used plain standard 10k NTCs in it.
http://www.uni-bonn.de/~uzs159/vco4069.html

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