SJM wrote:Hmmm....I think that would be more complicated and not significantly less expensive than buying an isolator.

It could be significantly less expensive. That isolator looks pricey but whatever will fix it, right?

Thanks to everyone but SPECIAL THANKS to Steve Green who helped me figure out the problem.

The problem is in these:
http://www.phidgets.com/products.php?product_id=3106

The Huky came with thermocouples with mini plugs on them and instead of just going with my original plan and just taking them off, I ordered these which basically just convert the plugs back to bare wires.

Anyway, taking the original plugs off and simply inserting the wires into the Phidget ....works.

Now to return these unnecessary plugs...

Now that's way less expensive!

Couldn't have done it without the resources of H-B for which I am once again indebted and grateful !!!

Susan

SJM wrote:Couldn't have done it without the resources of H-B for which I am once again indebted and grateful !!!

Homage for Ohmage.

Rich

SJM wrote:Thanks to everyone but SPECIAL THANKS to Steve Green who helped me figure out the problem.

The problem is in these:
http://www.phidgets.com/products.php?product_id=3106

The Huky came with thermocouples with mini plugs on them and instead of just going with my original plan and just taking them off, I ordered these which basically just convert the plugs back to bare wires.

Anyway, taking the original plugs off and simply inserting the wires into the Phidget ....works.

Now to return these unnecessary plugs...

Aw shucks, Ma'am. If I helped, it was probably mostly a case of "blind squirrel finds acorn."

Seriously though, thermocouples are comprised of two wires of a specific alloy. I suspect your connectors didn't match those alloys properly. It's the same problem you often encounter trying to daisy chain your PID thermocouple to your Phidget or other logging interface. The wires need to match for it to work.

I was thrilled to hear you got it working. -and thanks for the call.

Steve