I have a very simple VI that controls heaters in a chunk of steel. The steel has four thermocouples(one for control and three for monitor).
The VI loops and looks at the setpoint and the control TC reading. A boolean determines if heater is turned off and on.
Everything runs great for awhile (usually less than an hour) and then all the TC's "freeze" into a reading that is just slightly higher than the setpoint. Consequently the heater stays off and everything cools to room temperature.
I'm using a TB-3 and V/C are not hooked up. This problem happens if one thermocouple or all of them are hooked up, it makes no difference.
I'm at a loss for ideas. I do very similar things with other TC-120s at my facility, but I can't swap them since they are all currently in use for testing.
Any ideas?