I've got my stove in the basement and have been getting use to running up and down the stairs to check stack/surface temperatures. However, I was wondering if anyone has seen anything that can report on these temperatures wirelessly?
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You can purchase a weather station which includes one wireless temp/humidity sensor. I keep the base unit in my living room and the wireless sensor in the upstairs bedroom. Works great. You can purchase additional wireless sensors to get outside temp, etc.
http://www.amazon.com/Oregon-Scient...?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1195081905&sr=8-11
http://www.amazon.com/Oregon-Scient...?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1195081905&sr=8-11
A weather station remote won't measure the stove top or stack temps remotely without rapidly melting the sensor. I imagine someone makes this for high temps, but methinks it's gonna be pricey.
for example:
http://www.measurementcomputing.com/wireless.html
Though maybe you could adapt something like this. If you could raise the probe off the stove top so that it read something like 300 degrees off, then you could just add the 300 degrees when you checked. Some even have an alarm.
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for example:
http://www.measurementcomputing.com/wireless.html
Though maybe you could adapt something like this. If you could raise the probe off the stove top so that it read something like 300 degrees off, then you could just add the 300 degrees when you checked. Some even have an alarm.
(broken link removed to http://www.maverickhousewares.com/et71c.htm)
Sorry, that is what I get for reading too quickly. Thought he was just looking for room temperature. Being new at this I have been curious of the temperature in various rooms of the house and purchased one for that reason.
Me too. I love the wireless temp sensors. They make it very easy to measure thermal loops in the house.
you could use a EGT (exaust gas temp) gauge for a car/truck. i have one in my truck. it has a wire but does not requre batteries and is good for a fairly decent temp range. if you have some cash to burn (as i did at some point, can't remember when) the (broken link removed) make some nice units. they will costomize wire lengths and such.
The problem with all of the good answers is that you have to drill a hole somewhere in the stove. The stuff on the market is for chit for measuring surface temperatures.
If it makes you feel any better know that I too run up and down the basement stairs (good exercise I guess) to monitor the stack temp. This is the first season with the new stove and it will take a while to get to know it. Part of it is just curiosity and the other is of course the visible flame in this stove.
I posted a link for Maverick above. But seeing you've got one, how about some tests? Don't put it right on the stove top, use something fireproof to keep the probe a little above the stove surface. Otherwise the probe will be above it's range.
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