Temperature Sensors and Transmitters

RTDs, such as our Pt100 and Pt1000 probes, are more accurate and stable for temperatures up to a few hundred °C. Thermocouples cover much higher temperatures and respond faster to change. For most process and building work up to a few hundred °C, an RTD is the better default choice.

A Pt100 is a platinum RTD with a resistance of 100 Ω at 0 °C. A Pt1000 has 1000 Ω at 0 °C, which reduces the effect of cable resistance over a longer run, so it's a better choice where the transmitter or panel is some distance from the sensor.

Choose infrared when you can't or shouldn't touch the surface: moving parts, very hot process surfaces, live-electrical joints or hard-to-reach spots such as a kiln shell. A contact RTD or thermocouple is generally more accurate when you can safely reach the medium, so it stays the first choice there.

Yes, our industrial RTDs can be supplied with NABL or non-NABL calibration, depending on your quality system's requirement for a nationally accredited certificate. Tell us which certification your process requires when you order, and we'll confirm the right calibration option with the probe.

A temperature transmitter converts a sensor's signal to a 4 to 20 mA loop for a PLC to read; it has no local display or switching. A digital temperature switch, like the Pixsys DST100, adds a local display and two switching outputs to that same transmitting function, in one device.

Yes. Our kiln shell and under-tyre monitoring systems use multiple infrared sensors and a PM180 hub to track a rotating kiln shell continuously, and our busbar temperature monitoring does the same for switchgear joints, all logging and alarming through Modbus rather than a single point reading.