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Anyone have any that they like, work well for them, little margin of error?

I just bought one from home depot and couldn't be more disappointed with it. The thing is way off.
 
Also anybody recommend any humidity units with probes that they've ordered online that work well?

Thanks!
 
I use the pro exotics pe-1 temp gun.

It's the only one I've owned. It works great for me. i think it's around $25...
 
I don't use them. As long as snakes have good sheds, all is well. I do however have a base unit thermometer in my snake room to keep an eye on how the room humidifier is doing. That unit is a Honeywell, but they no longer make it.
 
My thermometer I am using now tells me my room temps, I was more referring to a unit with a probe to go in my egg box in the incubator.
 
Yes I did see that yesterday, that discussion is more about wireless thermometers tho. I am looking to see what other people are using for humidity gauges/probes in their incubator.
 
Harbor Frieght has a great temp gun that can be found on sale for $20-25. It is very comparable to the higher end readers so its a debatable topic. One thing that can't be debated, you should always have more than one way to read temps in case one device is off.
 
Let me see what mine are when I'm in the room tomorrow. I forget the name but they are awesome. Temp and humidity in one with probe. Uses double a. 3 ft probe lead wire. Humidity doesn't max out at 90% it reads 0-100 in humidity and the +/- on both temp and humidity are very good.
 
Here's the temp gun I use but it's kind of expensive but is very accurate and reads in increments of a degree.

http://www.instrumart.com/products/2270/raytek-raynger-st20-infrared-thermometer

For air temperature I use this to know how off my digital thermometers are working.

http://www.amazon.com/H-B-20720T-Liquid-In-Glass-Verification-Thermometer/dp/B00551PYAA

I know both may be a bit overkill but they're very accurate.

http://www.amazon.com/H-B-20720T-Liquid-In-Glass-Verification-Thermometer/dp/B00551PYAA


To read relative humidity I have a calibrated precision hygrometer that I purchased from Thermo Scientific years ago which I found a huge difference in reading from the cheap ones I purchased at Wal Mart which were the best they stocked.
 
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i'd love to know a good brand of hygrometer with a probe too. fyi don't buy the big apple herp one, wildly inaccurate and not even steady in its inaccuracy which is the most annoying part. It's a good 50 percent off from the actual humidity, egg box has condensation everywhere and i practically put it in the water and it still reading 40% :( my old analog one reads better.
 
Brittany if you do some googling you'll find just what you're looking for but get something calibrated or something you can calibrate yourself because you'll want to adjust the calibration yearly to be sure it's accurate.
 
Raytek MT4 temp gun - been using it since 2004.

As far as measuring humidity in my incubator, I don't.
 
Thanks everyone. So with what you said Harald about not measuring humidity. If the eggs are nice and plump, no dimpling etc. I am to assume that the humidity is good. If they start to dimple this is a humidity problem?
 
There are a lot of techniques used for incubation...eggs are more durable than a lot of people think (or they wouldn't hatch in the wild); but you CAN screw them up. Personally, I prefer to err on the too dry side.
Aside from that, unless one uses an open box incubating strategy, what difference does it make what the moisture level is inside the incubator? (Actually, it can make a difference; but I'm making a point). Egg containers are individual micro-environments...and, depending on one's set up, it's possible for one keeper to have a fairly wide range of conditions without intending it. Using a single device inside an incubator doesn't give information about what is going on inside any individual container; and, logically, using a probe inside one only tells about that single box. Yes, it gives a ballpark figure for those who have learned to be obsessed with numbers...but, again, (MOST) reptile eggs don't require extreme micromanagement.

"Humidity problem" has bad connotations...makes people think there is something wrong, lol. VPI addressed the topic of humidity many years ago - I'm not sure of the particular species, but I think it may have been carpets - and the crux of the article was that eggs managed to hatch under some pretty inhospitable conditions. If eggs start to dimple, efforts to rehydrate them can have a worse outcome than simply maintaining them or making very slight adjustments.
*I've spent the past 45 minutes looking for something I referenced in an old thread; so I'm going to just post this...I can always add to it later.
 
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