RTD Pt100 Sensor API
RTD (resistance-temperature-detector) sensor maths as an API, computed locally and deterministically with the IEC 60751 Callendar–Van Dusen equation — the resistance, temperature and tolerance numbers an instrumentation or controls engineer reads a Pt100 or Pt1000 with. The resistance endpoint gives the sensor resistance from temperature: above 0 °C, R = R₀·(1 + A·T + B·T²) with A = 3.9083×10⁻³ and B = −5.775×10⁻⁷; below 0 °C a third term adds C·(T−100)·T³ — a standard Pt100 (100 Ω at 0 °C) reads 138.51 Ω at 100 °C and 80.31 Ω at −50 °C, and a Pt1000 is ten times that. The temperature endpoint inverts it to turn a measured resistance back into temperature — analytically above 0 °C, iteratively below — exactly what a transmitter does with the bridge reading, and a reminder that a 3- or 4-wire connection cancels the lead-wire resistance so it does not read as extra degrees. The tolerance endpoint gives the IEC 60751 accuracy band in both °C and Ω by class — AA ±(0.10 + 0.0017·|T|), A ±(0.15 + 0.002·|T|), B ±(0.30 + 0.005·|T|), C ±(0.60 + 0.010·|T|) — the error growing with distance from 0 °C. Everything is computed locally and deterministically, so it is instant and private. Ideal for instrumentation and controls software, data-logger and transmitter firmware, calibration and industrial-IoT tools. Pure local computation — no key, no third-party service, instant. 3 compute endpoints. For NTC thermistors use a thermistor API; for thermocouples a thermocouple API.
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