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    Temperature guns

    I'm a little curious to know what temp guns people have found reliable?

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    Klein DUAL-laser for accuracy.

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    https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DMI632G

    Etekcity Lasergrip 1080



    I would just get whatever is available in your country.

    Edit here is the UK link

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    here's a link to mine on amazon. i've been using it for over 3 years and it works great.
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    Re: Temperature guns

    Quote Originally Posted by tttaylorrr View Post
    here's a link to mine on amazon. i've been using it for over 3 years and it works great.
    How do you know it works great? Are you checking for accuracy with a secondary thermometer. It might be off by quite a bit and you would never know. Even my fairly advanced one, I take a couple shots at different distances. And check for accuracy using a second source. no, I am not obsessive at all, what do you mean?
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    Re: Temperature guns

    Quote Originally Posted by Godzilla78 View Post
    How do you know it works great? Are you checking for accuracy with a secondary thermometer. It might be off by quite a bit and you would never know. Even my fairly advanced one, I take a couple shots at different distances. And check for accuracy using a second source. no, I am not obsessive at all, what do you mean?
    i'm just as obsessive. all my enclosures (including individual tubs in my rack) have one stand-alone AcuRite thermo/hydrometer, one AcuRite probed thermo/hydrometer for hotspot with display thermo/hygrometer, and i try to check floor temps with the temp gun every other day and at minimum once a week. i compare all readings and use my Herpstats as a gauge for accuracy. i find my temp gun to be more reliable than my AcuRite meters as they can be a couple degrees off.
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    Temperature guns

    Yeah, we are all nuts here, but our reptiles love us for it.


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    Typical plumber I swear wanting everything to be calibrated to the nearest fraction of a degree.

    I have more thermometers than a hospital's proctology clinic and so long as they all say the same thing, that works for me even if off by a fraction of a degree kelvin of absolute zero in a vacuum. None of my snakes are dead yet.

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    Re: Temperature guns

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    You two are so weird
    that is acurite.

    get it? we're talking about thermometers. it's punny. i tried.
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