Really Neat Thermometer

Just purchased a really neat non-contact pocket thermometer.

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=93983

Point it at snow and it tells you the snow temperature. Might be
better than the standard Swix snow thermometer because it gives true
surface temperature which you will be skiing on instead of the
temperature a centimeter under the surface.

Point it at your iron and it tells you iron temperature.

Neat!


Ski Exuberantly,

Hank

Mammoth Lakes, California

If Cross Country ski racing were easy it would be called football.

wrote:
Just purchased a really neat non-contact pocket thermometer.

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=93983

Point it at snow and it tells you the snow temperature. Might be
better than the standard Swix snow thermometer because it gives true
surface temperature which you will be skiing on instead of the
temperature a centimeter under the surface.

Might be much, _much_ worse since it is almost certainly far from
accurate enough around 0 C. :-)

Point it at your iron and it tells you iron temperature.

Neat!

If it actually works accurately, then yes. However, accurate IR-based
thermometers tends to be several orders of magnitude more expensive. :-(

Terje

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"almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching"

What the store write up doesn't say is accuracy is rated at +/- 2C
(4F). Hank, to what degree have you tested it? Are there any
reasonably priced guages out there? I've found the Toko models to be
off and, of course, those Swix outdoor clock thermometers are a joke.

Is taking snow surface temp sufficient? Is there any radiating effect
from below?

rm

Terje Mathisen wrote:

wrote:
Just purchased a really neat non-contact pocket thermometer.

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=93983

Point it at snow and it tells you the snow temperature. Might be
better than the standard Swix snow thermometer because it gives true
surface temperature which you will be skiing on instead of the
temperature a centimeter under the surface.

Might be much, _much_ worse since it is almost certainly far from
accurate enough around 0 C. :-)

Point it at your iron and it tells you iron temperature.

Neat!

If it actually works accurately, then yes. However, accurate IR-based
thermometers tends to be several orders of magnitude more
expensive. :-(

wrote:
What the store write up doesn't say is accuracy is rated at +/- 2C
(4F). Hank, to what degree have you tested it? Are there any
reasonably priced guages out there? I've found the Toko models to be
off and, of course, those Swix outdoor clock thermometers are a joke.


Oh, to live in a place where the snow temperature actually changes!!

Chris

On Apr 26, 10:36 am, wrote:

What the store write up doesn't say is accuracy is rated at +/- 2C
(4F). Hank, to what degree have you tested it? Are there any
reasonably priced guages out there? I've found the Toko models to be
off and, of course, those Swix outdoor clock thermometers are a joke.

All the comments about accuracy are right on. No, I have not tested
it. Will next season.

(It is snowing as I type this. Groomed Nordic skiing is done for the
season, but people are reporting that ski skating is great on the corn
snow.)

Ski Exuberantly,

Hank

Mammoth Lakes, California

If cross country ski racing were easy, it would be called football