Contact Onset Hobo instruments, www.onsetcomp.com on the Cape in Mass. They have quite an assortment of hi grade instrumentation AND are good folks to deal with. Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
-----Original Message----- From: "Peter Parrish" <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:08:25 To: 'RE-wrenches'<[email protected]> Reply-To: RE-wrenches <[email protected]> Subject: [RE-wrenches] Affordable, Quality Thermometer I have been looking into the possibility that a relatively new weather station in the Los Angeles area -- a RAWS station to be precise -- is consistently recording temperatures about 5 deg F higher than actual. I have been basing my opinion using a standard Hg/glass thermometer and a IR gun. Both of my units usually agree to within 1 degree (rarely 2 degrees). What I would like to know is if there is an affordable "gold standard" thermometer out there for purchase. Presumably its calibration would have to be traceable to a NIST standard of some sort. I am looking for less than +/- 1 deg F resolution and accuracy. The temperature range I am primarily interested in is 70 deg F to 115 deg F, and 15 deg to 70 deg F would be icing on the cake. I would settle for something that I could read and record the data by hand. If there was a version that had a interface to a laptop or smart phone would be great - Peter Peter T. Parrish, Ph.D., President California Solar Engineering, Inc. 820 Cynthia Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90065 CA Lic. 854779, NABCEP Cert. 031806-26 [email protected] Ph 323-258-8883, Mobile 323-839-6108, Fax 323-258-8885 _______________________________________________ List sponsored by Home Power magazine List Address: [email protected] Options & settings: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List-Archive: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List rules & etiquette: www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm Check out participant bios: www.members.re-wrenches.org _______________________________________________ List sponsored by Home Power magazine List Address: [email protected] Options & settings: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List-Archive: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List rules & etiquette: www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm Check out participant bios: www.members.re-wrenches.org
