[sdiy] Circuit thermometer / temperature measurement

[Michael Zacherl]

I have a faint picture in my mind where Kent Spong used a pistol-shaped laser thermometer to measure the temperature of chips to track down the faulty one. 
In the caption he claimed it's quite accurate. Price was in the 30UKP range, IIRC.
But then again it's still just the surface temperature that's measured.
m.

On 17.Feb 2015, at 19:46 , Justin Owen <juzowen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Anyone recommend a reasonable thermometer for measuring the operating temperature of PCBs and surface mount parts in-circuit?
> 
> I recently bought  a fairly cheap (<5.00) pen type food thermometer but a) for accurate readings it needs to be actually stuck in the food - which isn't entirely convenient for PCB parts and b) even immersed in liquids it's very slow to hit the required reading.
> 
> Any thoughts?


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