The CSV header published by Xanthium is No, Date, Time, AN1, AN2, AN3, AN4. The 2018 RC-5 review lists Excel, PDF, Word and TXT as export types. This publication has not opened a current Elitech PDF or CSV, so those columns are not described here.
Which CSV headers are actually in a public file?
Xanthium’s 2023 tutorial writes one row per poll: serial number, date, time, then four analogue channels. The probes on that board are LM35 sensors. They are not thermocouples, and the computer has to stay awake. The Linux follow-on uses the same header on /dev/ttyACM0.
That header can be taught as a pattern: identity, clock, then one column per channel. It cannot be copied onto an unseen USB-pen export.
Which export types did the 2018 RC-5 note list?
Verstraten listed Excel, PDF, Word and TXT. He also wrote that an alarm was only a colour change on the graph — no beeper, no LED. TEMPer2, in the companion page, could dump readings into a text window without the vendor program. Those are two different export frictions, on two different instruments, in 2018.
A shop page that says “automatic PDF/CSV” is seller text. It does not name the columns, the decimal mark, or whether seconds are dropped. This publication has not opened that pair of files.
Which columns stay unnamed on this page?
No ElitechLog column list appears here. No alarm-high or alarm-low field is described as present in a current export. An original page that names current Elitech columns would have to keep the PDF and the CSV from the same run, list every heading, and leave blank any heading that did not appear.
Download the blank temperature-log CSV. The file has headings and one empty row. It contains no fabricated readings.
Which sources does this note use, and what do they not prove?
Sources checked on 23 September 2026. Numbered references point to the original publishers. Their sample measurements are not Temp Logger UK measurements. Manufacturer, training and official material is identified separately. A shop catalogue sentence can name a model, but it does not establish the columns, the clock or a pass. This publication has not tested or certified any instrument in this note.
- Xanthium, Python data-acquisition system logging to a CSV file ↗Rahul Sreedharan, 19 October 2023. CSV header No,Date,Time,AN1,AN2,AN3,AN4; filename from the host localtime; Ctrl+C to stop. Four LM35 sensors, not thermocouples. PC-tethered. The older GitHub path cited in earlier notes returned 404 on 23 September 2026.
- Xanthium, serial-port datalogging to a CSV file on Linux ↗Same author. /dev/ttyACM0 example of the same four-channel LM35 CSV start/stop behaviour on Linux.
- Chinese electronics products tested, RC-5 temperature logger tested ↗Jos Verstraten, 13 August 2018. Interval, Play/Stop, delay start, memory-full behaviour and export formats on one RC-5 sample with then-current Windows software. Those figures belong to that 2018 test, not to a current ElitechLog session or a Temp Logger UK export.
- Chinese electronics products tested, TEMPer2 USB temperature logger tested ↗Same author, companion USB logger with an internal sensor and an 88 cm external probe. Used here only as contrast for export friction. Different instrument family from the RC-5.
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