Infared thermometer with lazer pointer ?

[drayegon]

Have any of you folks used the point and shoot temp guns? I have tried it on many different items and always come back with the correct temp but not sure if it will work with the water loaded with chemicals. I can shoot an ice cube and get back both 0degrees C and 32 degrees F I can shoot a pan of boiling water and get back 212 F and 100 C I can shoot a radiator and thermostat and get back the 140 degree release temp it has on the thermostat. I have yet to see anything that it did not work on so My best guess is it will be good to go on sealer and dyes,cleaners and all. Still haven't run it yet but Saturday is the day of truth so any ideas peoples? thanks dray
Hey they didn't even have this stuff back when I was doing it before. We also did not have this many colors either. Black Red Blue and gold was it you could get purple by adding blue and red and green with blue and gold brown or orange with red and gold. You could also write on the aluminum with a crayon and it would keep it from anodizing in that spot. What am I missing anything ?? thanks dray

[sswee]

It'll work. I use a handful of candy thermometers for the heated tanks because they are cheap. I have and use an IR thermometer for PC. Whatever works best for you.
SS

[chromo]

If it's like mine it's the greatest thing in the world most the time. But on some surfaces it can vary a bit, how you hold it, where you point it.

You SHOULD take readings various places around the tanks and maybe hold it a slightly different angles and get used to it.
Since it works basically by reflecting off the surface back to the unit various things can affect it a little. Just like Radar.

If it doesn't seem to read the liquid correct for you, then you could just float something in the tank like a piece of metal or glass tube floating like a fishing bobber, the bobber should be at tank temps so shoot the bobber for a reading

It should work fine though normally, but like pointing at an angle onto a shiney surface can be a little like looking into the mirror, the angle you look in affects what you see.

I think my Laser tach is more effected by such things than the laser thermometer though.