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  • M2 DIY Thermistor Rebuild: Autopsy

    Not much to my surprise, my hack-job thermistor rebuild went bad:

    M2 - thermistor - assembly 2
    M2 – thermistor – assembly 2

    Having nothing to lose, I heated the brass tube over a butane flame to wreck the epoxy, which blew out with a satisfactory bang and filled the Basement Laboratory with The Big Stink.

    Much to my surprise, the active ingredient still worked:

    M2 DIY thermistor corpse
    M2 DIY thermistor corpse

    The multimeter reported absolutely no intermittent dropouts for as long as I was willing to watch the trace while doing other things:

    DIY Thermistor Autopsy - Resistance Trend
    DIY Thermistor Autopsy – Resistance Trend

    So it must be my crappy soldering technique.

    A brace of real M2 thermistors will arrive shortly …