Hey, so I have a contactless "thermopen" infared thermomiter I got from woot. Figured it'd be neat to see the temperatures of things like hard drives and heat sinks during burn in (sometimes, especially for the hard drives, the SMART reported temperature is... unlikely. I'd like a double check.)
Anyhow, the interesting bit is that if I measure the shiny part of my burning-in hard drive (that was getting pretty hot to the touch; it was in a cradle without forced air cooling) it claimed 95F, but if I measure the label? it says 120F (which is more reasonable, considering that it was slightly painful to touch) Reading up, apparently the pen reports different temperatures for different reflective values of the surface, and it's calibrated to 'flat black' The problem is that most of what I want to measure (drives and heat sinks) are reflective. What do other people use for temperature probes? -- Luke S. Crawford http://prgmr.com/xen/ - Hosting for the technically adept http://nostarch.com/xen.htm - We don't assume you are stupid. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
