Digital stove thermometers , I like em

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HDRock

HDRock

Minister of Fire
Oct 25, 2012
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Grand Blanc, Mi
I am loving these, no lag time. :)
Don't have to go over to the stove to see the stovetop temperature.
One glance ,across the room ,I see the flames the fire, inside pipe temperature and stove top temperature, I know exactly what the stove is doing.
I can check to see what the high temp was overnight .
I can tell exactly when to dial down the air.
If I screw up again, I have 2 high temperature alarms set, 1000 for the pipe, 725 for the stove top.
Fer any naysayers , they make it easier , provide safety , and they are just cool ==c
Owners how you like em ??

Cruising along with 4 medium splits
Pipe on the left ,Stove top right

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As the stove comes up the more inaccurate mine gets. Witnessed by two Rutlands and two IR thermometers that agree within 50 degrees.
 
Congrats ..... what took you so long!:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:;lol;lol;lol

I LOVE mine. ;ex
 
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BrotherBart said:
As the stove comes up the more inaccurate mine gets. Witnessed by two Rutlands and two IR thermometers that agree within 50 degrees.
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Are you talking about the pipe probe or the stove top magnet deal?
 
Stove top mag.
 
BrotherBart said:
Stove top mag.
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Yeah ok I have been wondering about that because my IR and my Condar stove top magnet thermometer match up real well but this thing reads about 60 degrees lower, I would like to check it with my other IR but I don't have it right now my daughter borrowed it.
Have you tried to reset the parameters?

2. PSb. Calibration offset. PSb is used to set an input offset to compensate the
error produced by the sensor. For example, if the meter displays 5 ºC when probe is
in ice/water mixture, set PSb= -5, will make the meter display 0 ºC.
 
Oh yeah. I have punched in 00089 to get to the settings more times than I care to ever again. Setting it to to a do a thermocouple compensation just gets you accuracy at the point that you do it and better accuracy at that point. Going up is off and so is coming down. With a cold stove compensated it is showing a 70 degree stove to be over a hundred. A day after the fire went out.

I give it credit for registering accurate room temp uncompensated. But I can buy a room thermometer for two bucks. Not a hundred.

All it is good for is to tell me if stove temp is going up or down so I can go over and look at the Rutland or shoot it with the IR. I kinda suspect that if the thermocouple was more tightly bound to the stove top it might be somewhat more accurate. But I ain't gonna drill a hole in that stove top for nothing.
 
BrotherBart said:
Oh yeah. I have punched in 00089 to get to the settings more times than I care to ever again. Setting it to to a do a thermocouple compensation just gets you accuracy at the point that you do it and better accuracy at that point. Going up is off and so is coming down. With a cold stove compensated it is showing a 70 degree stove to be over a hundred. A day after the fire went out.

I give it credit for registering accurate room temp uncompensated. But I can buy a room thermometer for two bucks. Not a hundred.

All it is good for is to tell me if stove temp is going up or down so I can go over and look at the Rutland or shoot it with the IR. I kinda suspect that if the thermocouple was more tightly bound to the stove top it might be somewhat more accurate. But I ain't gonna drill a hole in that stove top for nothing.
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I like it and I think it's useful but I'll do some more checking.
The flu temp is what I look at mostly anyway, and if I get distracted and don't close it down when I should then the alarm let me know.
Some how I screwed up my order and did not order a piezo buzzer, so I had to order it separately because I don't think the built in alarm will wake me up.
Edit, yeah I'm with you I'm not going to weld or drill any holes in my stove either
 
The damn thing almost killed my cat. ;lol

I went over one night to check the stove temp and mess with the settings on the digital. I aimed the IR red beam at the stove top and then leaned over to adjust the digital which is on the wall next to the fire place my 30-NC is in. Didn't take my finger off of the IR button and the red dot went into the fireplace and the cat came halfway across the room after it and went right between my legs into the six inch clearance between the 600 degree stove and the fireplace wall.

Fortunately my old reflexes were fast enough to grab a handful of cat and drag here out before she got roasted and cost me a real big vet bill.

She still stares in the space sometimes looking for it to come out.
 
BrotherBart said:
The damn thing almost killed my cat. ;lol

I went over one night to check the stove temp and mess with the settings on the digital. I aimed the IR red beam at the stove top and then leaned over to adjust the digital which is on the wall next to the fire place my 30-NC is in. Didn't take my finger off of the IR button and the red dot went into the fireplace and the cat came halfway across the room after it and went right between my legs into the six inch clearance between the 600 degree stove and the fireplace wall.

Fortunately my old reflexes were fast enough to grab a handful of cat and drag here out before she got roasted and cost me a real big vet bill.

She still stares in the space sometimes looking for it to come out.
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That's funny, but not
My passed cat just decided , to jump up on my old stove , first fire in the fall , stove was just getting going ,she came off real fast , never did it again .
probably my fault , my new cat I trained to not get on the stove in the off season
 
Many noon's ago had a kitten get up in the gas furnace , he was cooked and stuck right onto the burn tubes !!!;sick
 
HDRock said:
That's funny, but not
My passed cat just decided , to jump up on my old stove , first fire in the fall , stove was just getting going ,she came off real fast , never did it again .
probably my fault , my new cat I trained to not get on the stove in the off season
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Mark Twain said that once a cat ever sat on a hot stove it would never sit on a hot stove again. And would never sit on a cold stove again either.
 
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Interesting, for whatever reason my cats have never gone on top of the stove, hot or not. But last night one of them did get her tail a bit close to the glass and we had a nice aroma of burning cat hair for a while.
 
I would really like for us to figure out a way to make these toys work. Every advantage you posted in the OP is true. If the damned things were just accurate.

We need to talk to the maker. I have intended to for awhile. Just haven't done it.
 
Because if they get it right, there ain't nothing on the net that will sell more of them than guys like you and me being satisfied that they work. On hearth.com.

No pay advertising. That will probably piss of the site owner, but he gets no pay moderators so what the hell? >>
 
But if the flue thermometer is off by 50 or even 100 deg., how important is that really? So my alarm goes off at 1100, do I really care a lot if it's 1050 or 1150? Honestly, when mine goes off it's headed to ballistic within the 15 sec it takes me to get there. I've seen mine jump 100 deg in 3 sec.
 
DougA said:
But if the flue thermometer is off by 50 or even 100 deg., how important is that really? So my alarm goes off at 1100, do I really care a lot if it's 1050 or 1150? Honestly, when mine goes off it's headed to ballistic within the 15 sec it takes me to get there. I've seen mine jump 100 deg in 3 sec.
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You have a point, if it was 500 deg off it would matter a lot
 
BrotherBart said:
I would really like for us to figure out a way to make these toys work. Every advantage you posted in the OP is true. If the damned things were just accurate.

We need to talk to the maker. I have intended to for awhile. Just haven't done it.
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hey what the heck go talk to him,
could they make it more accurate at the same price point is my question
 
Nah. If wrong at at the current price is OK with you is fine, OK.
 
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BrotherBart said:
Nah. If wrong at at the current price is OK with you is fine, OK.
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Price would most likely go up .
Well I didn't expect it to be off , but before I got a mag therm I didn't know they could be 100-200 deg off
 
Can I get make/models for the thermometers? I will stick mine in the catalyst in a 44 Elite. Forgive me, a real newbie question here- why can't I stick my digital grille thermometer in there? It has a stainless steel probe & about 6' wire...
 
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BrotherBart said:
I would really like for us to figure out a way to make these toys work. Every advantage you posted in the OP is true. If the damned things were just accurate.

We need to talk to the maker. I have intended to for awhile. Just haven't done it.
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I wonder if the paint has something to do with the accuracy or maybe the magnet. I thought I read somewhere that there should be no paint where the probe contacts the surface. Mine is off by at least 60 deg when at 500 deg. Too low. It looks like this is the case with most of the digitals. I'll keep using mine but have to remember that it is too low.
 
Heat is a enemy of electronics-- depending on how close you have those meters to the stove might have something to do with inaccuracies.
 
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