Thermistor

This post contains a fair bit of information on the topic of thermistors for temp measurement, and might be useful. Feel free to skip to the section on NTC devices…

Defining what precisely you have in mind when you say you want “to measure accurate temperature” is important; measuring temp changes to half a degree is one thing, measuring absolute temperature to 0.001°C is very much another.

At day’s end, your meter is not measuring temperature, it’s measuring the resistance of a device that has a predictable temperature/resistance relationship. When you tell the device you want to measure temperature, it’s using some pre-programmed assumptions about the characteristics of your thermistor to translate a resistance reading into a temperature reading. Those pre-programmed assumptions are, to some degree, going to be incorrect and and not representative of your thermistors’ actual characteristics. Whether or not your DAQ device offers a means of adjusting the equations used to translate resistance into temperature or not, I don’t know. The workaround would simply be to record resistance data and translate it into temperature terms yourself, either using the information in your thermistors’ datasheets or derived through calibration of individual devices.