Indoor Temperature Sensor, E2000 Series

Is it possible to extend the sensor off the circuit board? I have a project where the client does not like the sensor so we need to install them remotely to the room and extend the actual sensor to the room where we locate it in a switch.

 

Obviously any such modifications will void your warranty.

Keeping that in mind, locating the sensor itself inside another C-Bus switch will expose the sensor to the warmth of the electronics. The temperature sensors are designed to minimise the thermal impact of the electronics, the other C-Bus switches are not. Depending on where you put the sensor, it will be impacted thermally.

Any extensions will be referenced to C-Bus, so all the same precautions would need to be made as if the extension wires were part of C-Bus. That includes cable type, segregation, etc. Any extension should be as short as physically possible. Too long and network communication may start to be affected.

Any extension will change the calibration of the sensor. There is no facility on the unit for an end-user calibration so you'd have to live with the fact that the sensor reading will be out.

If you still want to go down this path, it's your call.

An alternative may be the recently-released single-zone thermostat.

 

Sensor placement is just as important as sensor size and performance. You may find that even if you modify the unit it simply wont work because concealed locations offer little or no performance for the measurements.

Even if you modify the design you still have to deal with its actual operation.

Just take your customer to an art gallery and show them how the same sensors are used alongside millions of dollars worth of valuable art. Maybe then they will buy something to cover the walls.