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Forum Index : Microcontroller and PC projects : Having trouble with DS18B20's ?

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paceman
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Posted: 12:08pm 19 Nov 2019
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Here's an article  about the almost ubiquitos fake DS18B20's that are around now - interesting read. If you're having trouble with yours it may give you the reasons.

Greg
 
Chopperp

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Posted: 01:27pm 19 Nov 2019
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Thanks for that

I normally get mine from RS but I did buy a bunch from EBay a good while ago & they were complete duds.
Checked out more like a re-branded transistor than an 18B20.
Put me off buying the cheap ones.

Brian
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Poppy

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Posted: 03:33pm 19 Nov 2019
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Thanks for telling us!


I guess those cheap fakes I already got will still do their job for testing set-ups generally but for final tasks I rather take the real ones.
Andre ... such a GURU?
 
Phil23
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Joined: 27/03/2016
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Posted: 08:06pm 20 Nov 2019
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Not another thing to look out for.....

Would like to the a more concise way of testing.
The article mentions they contain no EEProm.

Does that mean some simple code could be written for testing.

All my stocks here are from 2 to 3 years back & been working fine.

That's not to say I won't need a few new ones, & particularly the waterproof probe type....


Phil.
 
Maniccyberdog
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Joined: 19/02/2018
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Posted: 01:36pm 11 Dec 2019
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Got a waterproof from Amazon, couldn't read directly with tempr, needed to use tempr start, then tempr
 
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