Digital temperature gun FYI
On sale in Canadian Tire this week for S30 down from $100. Cheap way of checking for potential wheel bearing or brakes problems. We use one regularly when travelling just as a safety measure. Read rev...
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Sport45 wrote:
The cheap IR guns are great for letting you know if something is warmer or colder than it was last time you checked. Just don't count on the reported temperature to be accurate. Reported temperature is a function of surface emmissivity (for all IR measuring devices) and the cheap guns don't let you adjust for this.
That said, I have a couple of the cheap ones from HF that I use frequently.
Tires & brakes (via wheels)
Checked the HF items against a friend's more expensive brand, found
the HF reported temp to be *very* accurate.
However, don't know if his had adjustable emmissivity - :R - or not.
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