Homebrew PCBs

On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 02:15:41 +0100, wbblair3 <wbblair3@...> wrote:

> I agree on its inability to measure temperature accurately on shiny
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> surfaces in particular, but that's not what I originally bought it
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> for, just what I later misused it for.
>
>
> Bill
>


Yes, but can you really trust it?
I mean not everything that's black has the same emissivity.

It's maybe good if you need to measure the same thing often, you know if  
it works for that, and better meters can even be adjusted to the constants  
of the surface you are looking at.

But for a general purpose quick check meter it doesn't seem good - since  
you can never be quite sure if it isn't a lot off on this surface.

ST