Is it possible to have one thermometer display both Fahrenheit and Celsius?

[reniam]

Two scales: Fahrenheit on one; Celcius on the other.

[Lab Viewer]

An idea will be to add a new slider (from the pop up menu) and use it to display the second value. Also, make its color different from the first one. This way, you can use the same scale.

[DavidBoyd]

Two *true* scales on one fill-type indicator is probably a LV8 feature 🙂

Well, one thing I HAVE done is to take a thermometer indicator, popup and enable its 'units' display and call it 'degC', popup and enable the thermometer's digital display, then change the digital display's units to 'degF'. Of course, on the diagram, you have to convert a plain floating-point wire to a unit-ed wire to feed the indicator terminal, but you can clearly choose font/size/color/etc. separately for the scale and the digital indicator. Would this help?

P.S. When working with temperature physical units, make sure you understand the conceptual difference between, for example, 'degC' and 'Cdeg' in LabVIEW's unit scheme. The two forms exist because conversions need to kno
w if you're converting delta degrees (the 'Xdeg' form), or absolute temperatures (the 'degX' form). Kelvin of course, is a don't-care.

[Rob Cole]

One way that this could be done is to use text to create a scale on the other side. Admittedly, this does not work with autoscale, but would look okay as long as you matched the font and font size of the thermometer.

Rob