Looking for a remote mount flue pipe thermometer

[Bad LP]

New member but a 2 year lurker here. Tons of good knowledge around,
I have a Jotul Rockland insert on it's 3rd year and I'd like to monitor my flue pipe temps but as we all know the simple magnet mount basic bi-metal unit is not going to work. I've poked around looking for something simple with a bulb and gauge with no success. It's located in my living room so I have no intentions of hooking up a probe and running wires with digital displays.

Got a lead or direction to point me other than my Grainger book?

Thanks

 

[WES999]

This company has a wireless model that may work for you.
http://www.auberins.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=17
I am sure you set this up so it is not obtrusive.

 

[OK_Bill]

I just put up a review of a nice digital thermocouple system. With the proper probe, flue temps could be read easily.

 

[BrotherBart]

This company has a wireless model that may work for you.
http://www.auberins.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=17
I am sure you set this up so it is not obtrusive.

I bought their magnetic surface mount thermocouple unit this year. Piece of crap. I have to add 100 degrees of adjustment to get anywhere near accurate display. So when the stove is cold it says the room and stove are at a hundred and seventy degrees.

 

[Bad LP]

I do appreciate the links and comments but I'm not going to have a bunch of wires coming from the insert in the living room. If we were talking about the cellar stove I wouldn't care. Please picture Santos Mahogany floors, locally obtained field stone fireplace with flush floor hearth and a brown enamel stove next to a home theater.

Something old school that looks like a magnetic stove pipe mount POS common in every woodstove shop with a remote bulb is just what I'm looking for. I'm looking for a reference point type device, not a lab experiment.
I am not willing to look at a digital display glowing in the dark with wires running all over the place.

I'm very sorry if I sound harsh but it's the only way I know on getting my point across. Think extremely simple and mechanical only.

 

[BrotherBart]

Then say what you are looking for up front. Not take people to task for trying to help based on the OP.

 

[firefighterjake]

Then say what you are looking for up front. Not take people to task for trying to help based on the OP.

Unless it's been edited . . . he was pretty direct in what he was looking for in his first post . . . "'I've poked around looking for something simple with a bulb and gauge with no success. It's located in my living room so I have no intentions of hooking up a probe and running wires with digital displays."

That said . . . I'm not sure I've ever seen anything like what he is looking for . . . most of the set ups seem a little more elaborate with probes, wires and digital read outs.

 

[Jon1270]

I don't know much about this type of thermometer so this is speculative, but I'm understanding the OP to mean that he wants a mechanical gauge driven by a mercury-filled bulb. The problem might be that the boiling point of mercury is 674F, i.e. too low to be used for a stove pipe.

 

[OK_Bill]

I really like the look of my brand new VC Encore Flexburn all festooned with wires, since adding that CAT probe. Goes nicely with my mahogany ceiling.

Seriously, though - there are several dial and probe type gauges available that are designed for chimney/flue temp reading. But again, that's not the "bulb and gauge" type.