Negative Temperature Coefficient Thermistor (III)

For NTC thermistor, the most important property is its service life. Long life NTC thermistor is an improvement of the recognition of NTC thermistor, which stresses the importance of service life. Long service life refers that it can work well after experiencing tests of high accuracy, high sensitivity, high reliability, ultra high temperature, and high pressure.

Service life is a vital aspect of a good NTC thermistor, which has a dialectical relationship with other parameter such as accuracy and sensitivity. For a NTC thermistor, it should have a long service life at first, and other properties come then. It’s possible when the technical process reaches a certain level.

Many high-tech electronic products need thermistors to measure and control temperature stably under ultra-high temperature and pressure. Many manufacturers blindly pursue high accuracy and sensitivity of NTC thermistor, but ignore the service life. This leads to a short service life of NTC thermistor, which makes high accuracy, sensitivity and high temperature resistance meaningless.

Physical photo of NTC thermistor

High performance and long service life NTC thermistors, such as ATH100KR8, are provided in ATI website, check it for more information.

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