Temperature sensors

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Zeppy

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Mar 12, 2010
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western NH
Hope to burn my first cautious fire in the Econoburn 150 this weekend. I am looking for cheap options to measure the temperature of my 500gal storage tank. My thought is something with a probe that I can bury in the spray foam with a short wire to a display attached to the outside of the foam. I would just place two or three of these at different locations on the tank. Sources? Brick and mortar preferred, I'm not that old but I'm not real hip to ordering online!!!!

Also what do I use for stack temp? Just one of the traditional looking round temp gauges?

One more embarrassing question - my pressure/temp gauge on the side of the boiler was damaged in shipping. I forgot about it until I filled the boiler tonight and it was leaking. I tightened it up and it stopped leaking but it reminded that it is busted. To replace this do I need to drain my system down to that level?

Thank you in advance, and thank you for next week's help (when I am laughing at myself like infinitymike)
 
Congratulations on your Econoburn. Keep us up to date with your experience and enjoyment. There are a great many posts on temperature sensors. Do a search and you will find enough of info to answer almost any question. For a fancy end-result from temperature sensors, take a look at Monitoring Panel.
 
I would call Econoburn and see if they will send you a new gauge. I can't remember if it is in a dry well or not. If it is leaking now it might get worse as pressure increases.

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The Taylor 9940 fits that description. Under 30 dollars on the web. I used 4 of them 2 of the probes were fully submersed for 2 years before I pulled them ( One did die in water after two years ) Out side of water they are all still working fine.
 
Thanks,
Econoburn says its not a dry well. Gotta relieve some pressure and change it quickly and mop up the floor.

jebatty - maybe someday I'll have a panel like that

mwk1000 - looks like just what I need. Amazon says they are out of stock but I would think I should be able to find them somewhere
 
goosegunner said:
I used one of these Azel displays. One display comes with 2 sensors and displays both. It works well and you can extend it very far.
You can purchase additional Azel sensor probes. If you connected two sensors to each of the two DS-60 connections, but switched one conductor of each sensor with a three-way light switch, it would seem like you could monitor the temp at four locations with a single DS-60, two extra sensors and two three-way switches. Azel sells a package of three sensors for $20 and three-way switches are under $2 each. Any reason why that shouldn't work? Has anyone tried that?
 
mwk1000 - looks like just what I need. Amazon says they are out of stock but I would think I should be able to find them somewhere

I origionally got mine from Cozy heat and they were priced competitive. They are a banner add on this forum.
 
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