I can buy a lot of type X thermocouples, these are not even very expensive, or I could make some myself.
I can get meters of ISOTAN (Ni 44%, Mn 1%, Cu rest) as resistor wire very cheap. Can I use this in place of constantan? Or does the 1% Mn screw up a type T (copper versus constantan) themocouple? This because wikipedia says nothing about Mn in constantan.
ISOTAN is also 40 uV / K at 20 °C, is this the same?