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Originally posted by crane
There isn't any "might work" about it. The wire is a single conductor,small as a human hair and the enamel coating is tough enough to prevent a motor from shorting out.
I've been using a setup like this 8 months or more and hever had a problem.
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Well Thermistor's mostly are affected by cutting and re soldering the wire, different gauge of wire, and different distances run. I have NEVER seen a thermistor read the same it did at one point again after cutting and resoldering after changing lengths. Now then again if you are using a Thermistor you aren’t concerned about 4 - 5Deg offsets since that’s about as accurate as any Thermistor reader that most people would use for this. Also if you believe enamel is enough to stop a short after a few inserts and removals of CPU's.. you got more balls than me.
Also the gauge you are talking about is so hair thin that I am guessing its increasing the resistance in the line enough to cause your temps to be a good bit off from what they would be with a clean connection.
So I would go along with it "Might work" depending how accurate you want. if you want to go cheap, simple, and "relative" temps, then this would work fine. If you were in it to know actual temps, then I would just go with a good quality Thermocouple thermometer.