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Why so much difference?
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Happy Hog
Posts: 67
Large Egg and XL Egg setting side by side in my cook area
Large has a new Tel Tru Thermometer with pointer on zero.
XL has a BGE thermometer with pointer almost on 100
Outside temperature is 94 degrees
Why wouldn't they both read at least close to the same thing?
Large has a new Tel Tru Thermometer with pointer on zero.
XL has a BGE thermometer with pointer almost on 100
Outside temperature is 94 degrees
Why wouldn't they both read at least close to the same thing?
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I would calibrate both at 212 degrees
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the tel tru is not on zero it is on the degree sign. the tel tru goes to 150° the bge goes to 50 °
if you estimate the distance between the pointer on the tell tru and 150° and compare it to the distance between 150° and 200° you will see that the tel tru is also reading 100°, the probelm is 100° is not marked . both are right on.
bill -
Hman is correct! BTW, with all those gauges and stuff, are you starting your own NASA faction? :woohoo:
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I'm always right, unless I'm wrong.
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I think if you read the specs on the thermometers they are not intended to read that low of a temperature.Stick them both in boiling water and adjust to 212 degrees.What are you going to cook at 100 degrees any how.This time of year you don't need lump at all.
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Thanks guys
just needed someone to think for me
It all makes sense now. -
Except on alternate Thursdays, the third Monday following a full moon and the ninth Saturday following the summer solstice... then you're just guessing!
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they are reading the same thing, essentially. the tel-tru isn't pointing at zero, it's pointing at where 100 would be if 100 were printed there.
spring scales and bimetallic thermometers are linear. same amount of change in the strip that twists the dial effects the same amount of needle movement.
if you take them same spacing backward from 300 to 200, then from 200 backward, you'll see that the needle is roughly where 100 would beed egli avea del cul fatto trombetta -Dante -
Hey Happy,
Is that a Davis Vantage weather station. Approx. how much ballpark? -
Yes it is a wireless Davis Vantage Pro2
I have had it about 2 yrs
If belive it was about $500.00
http://www.davisnet.com/weather/products/vantage2.asp
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