Humidity Gauges?

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Originally Posted by ODoyle90

Regardless, digital is king.

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Have you checked the specs on your instruments? Most cheap digital ones are +/- 2ºF or worse some are +/-4ºF and +/- 10% humidity.

My cheap analogue one is +/- 2% Humidity and I don't use my analogue thermometer with my snakes but it is specd at +/- 0.5ºF. Yes you can get that accuracy in digital but it costs. I have never found a digital hygrometer/thermometer that was as accurate for anything close to the 35$ I spent on them.

I haven't checked the specs, but those numbers speak for themselves. My $25 one has done me well and has matched well whenever I spot checked it. I guess this is my time to take back that part and I personally prefer my digital meter

Is there any brand that anyone would recommend for a digital one?

OP personally I buy the cheapest digital thermometers I can (I always use analogue hygrometers as the digital ones are so poor) but the same can be true for combos. The guts of digital ones are very sensitive to manufacturing variations so the result is few digital ones will read the same unless you buy ones that have better manufacturing and are hand calibrated as they leave (traceable).

If you buy 3 or 5 if the price is right, and use the best 2 you can be fairly confident of having ones that are reasonably good. The thermometers I use come from ebay and are designed for aquaria. I pay about $1.90 for them and the last batch I got 20. I check them against a very accurate thermometer and mark the poor ones (9) and use them for something else or not at all. The others I check every 6 months and stop using the ones that have drifted (3 last check) I have tried many others and found they all are about this kind of spread (3 accurites, 5 zoo med, 2 zilla, and 6 flukers) I still use two of the zoo meds and 3 flukers.


I likely go zoo med as they have a probe and are the best of the cheaper ones I have found (still not saying much) Lots like the accurites but perhaps I had a bad batch but 2 were really far off out of the box (beyond the stated specs of +/-2ºF and 5%) and the last sat on the margin it was 2ºF high and 5% low so I could not return it as it was ok according to the specs, I gave it away)

ODoyle90 sorry, I reacted quickly, it is a myth that digital is better it simply is not true, good analogue is just as good and in the low price range it is very debatable. All anyone as to do it look at the range of what the manufactures accept as 'accurate' and the truth comes out, especially talking of hygrometers.

http://mobile.walmart.com/ip/Accurit...nitor/16888914

I got this one at walmart that has an indoor and outdoor temperatures and humidity...so you can get humidity readings and temperature readings on warm and cool end...it is also very acurate...alot of local brreders use this one also...and it only cost me $12:)