Thermocouple Splicing

I am currently setting up a Motec M130 and C127 in my SxS and am currently getting my harness and sensors planned out. When extending alumel/chromel thermocouple wiring, what is the appropriate splicing method? My thoughts would be to simply use an open barrel splice with some SCL.

There's a couple of options. The first and most common is to use normal tefzel/TXL wire to extend the thermocouple as required. The issue with doing this is that the cold junction ends up being at this point which will typically be in the engine bay and hence you're actually going to end up measuring the temperature difference between the hot junction and cold junction - Let's say your engine bay is at 70 deg C in the vicinity of the cold junction, understandably that's going to have a significant effect on your accuracy.

The second option is to extend the wiring using thermocouple wire but this also needs to be terminated with special contacts. These should be available form most companies that deal with motorsport wiring supplies. Note that you'll still have a cold junction somewhere but inside the cabin it's likely to be more reasonable than in the engine bay. Many systems will allow the addition of a cold junction temperature sensor to compensate for the cold junction temp and provide an accurate thermocouple reading.

Sorry, I'm reviving an old thread here.

The related question I have which you partially answered, but I'm after some clarification is:

If you are extending an existing thermocouple wire from a sensor with the correct K type thermocouple cable. Can you do an inline joint with a normal brass open barrel splice so that the two (chromel or alumel) wires are contacting each other directly, but are also in contact with the open barrel splice?

Will this create a cold junction where you do the in line joint?

Crimping is recommended, soldering is highly advised against for joining/extending TC wiring.

https://www.omega.com/en-us/resources/thermocouple-installations-faq

https://rjginc.helpjuice.com/4965-hardware/92887-can-i-lengthen-the-thermocouple-wire-for-my-rjg-temperature-sensor