Laser Thermometer
My favourite tool I’ve bought in ages is my Digi thermometer.
I bought this in the frivolous times when I was buying tools just in case I might need them. This tool was bought with an eye on radiator balancing, just in case a radiator might spontaneously need balancing I would have the tool to whip out and use.
Thing was it was cheap and it was interesting. Sure I could understand how a probe thermometer would work but how on earth would one work that didn’t even touch the object? This was Harry Potter magic and sure enough it worked, point it at something, pull the trigger, avada expeliarmus, beep beep and no matter how far it was away you’d get a temperature. Everything is fair game, I now know how hot a cat is, I know the cool spots on the walls, I know toast temperatures, it’s fun fun fun fun.
It has a laser pointer too – could it get any cooler (hey I’d know if it could now) – so distant objects can be accurately spotted and so it can give your cat something to chase while you temperature measure it.
The night I got it I was probably a frightening sight standing outside my house at midnight in the freezing cold night air, sporting my huge brocade hoody dressing gown, shining a laser pointer at my windows, going beep beep and moving slowly around the house laser pointing and beeping it. I think I might have puzzled some of my neighbours but I hope that a plumber somewhere spotted me and nodded appreciatively my budget attempt to find heat loss spots in the walls and windows of my house.
For all of it’s wonderful gadgetness I cannot for a moment testify how accurate it is. I would imagine that they accuracy falls off considerably with distance, I would imagine that it’s not brilliant but I think it’s probably good at recording one temperature relative to another, maybe the temperature’s not spot on but it might be consistently inaccurate, so one temperature against another would record the difference between the two accurately… if that makes any sense at all. This all would make it brilliant as a tool for recording temperature variances between pipes to and from a radiator making it a brilliant tool for balancing radiators.
Of course I’ve not spontaneously required a radiator balancing yet, but I do have it permantly in my bathroom as it is the best tool in the world for monitoring bath water temperature. No longer are my baths too hot, or too cold, they’re all Baby Bear just the right temperature. It’s just brilliant for this and worth every penny of its thirteen quid or so just for bath temperature accuracy.
All this and it makes a fabbo home security device too. Point it at a burglar, train the laser spot on them and when the beeper goes beep beep, tell your prospective robber that your stun gun has just charged, now p*** off.