Thanks Fausto
I can certainly try some of these, however acquisition rate makes no difference, the step-jumps happen at 10Hz, 60Hz or multi-kHz.
What is more confusing to me though is that if I look at the voltages directly, the steps are either not present, or are just much smaller than the noise and the conversion from volts to degrees is then quantized to the point that it is jumping between two conversion levels..
The following screen shot its 2 identical TCs placed adjacent to each other, one in voltage mode and the other in temperature mode.
Thanks
S