Adafruit ad8495 analogue output k type thermocouple amplifier breakout adafruit 1778 the adafruit k type thermocouple amplifier offers a quick and easy way of hooking up a thermocouple to your next project thermocouples need a cold compensation reference and a good amplifier which is where the ad8495 chip comes in it handles all the electrical complications and presents you with a single analogue output which you can feed into your microcontroller or other circuitry if you are going old sch