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	(message from Adrian Pardini on Thu, 5 Mar 2015 12:34:44 -0300)
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> I'm facing the need to control the temperature of a small sample in a
> chamber between room temperature and about 450°C with a precision of
> 0.3°C or better.

I use a thermocouple to monitor my woodstove, but I don't care so much
about precision.  I use a DS2760 thermocouple kit from Parallax for
it, and a high-temp thermocouple probe from Omega.com.

For monitoring my geothermal system, I used RTDs and an MCU's ADC to
measure them.  I got extra precision by doing each measurement 64
times and averaging, and the tech who calibrated my geothermal system
says they're spot-on.

I use the same averaging trick on my thermostats to get 0.1F readings
on a 1C-rated sensor.  If your sensor isn't noisy enough to use this
trick, you can always add noise - you're basically building a 1-bit
ADC.