Please recommend an indoor/outdoor thermometer.

[gardening_gal]

I'm going square eyed looking at them on the net.

Please someone recommend something that is accurate?

[daviddevantnhisspiritwife]

I have a couple of these and they are inexpensive and seem to be reasonably accurate:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Digital-Temp...x+thermometers

If you are anything like me you will probably drop it (repeatedly), leave it in direct sunlight, step on it (after dropping it for the nth time) and leave it out in the rain.

I've done all of the above to mine and they are still functioning.

This looks quite good too, though bit more 'spensive:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Max-thermome...x+thermometers

[gardening_gal]

Thanks david (for short ).

Does anyone else have anything they'd recommend too? I'm going to order later today.

[Bill HH]

I would certainly go for a max/min thermometer, You need to know how cold it went in the night more than how cold it is now.

What I really want is a thermometer that wont read less than 10 deg C to keep my seedlings warm lol.

[RaptorUK]

I have a couple of these and they are inexpensive and seem to be reasonably accurate:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Digital-Temp...x+thermometers

Be warned though, it gets shipped from China/Hong Kong.

[WendyC]

Mine is a Timex one with a sensor wire. £14.64 currently from Ama@@n. Ignore review had mine several years and the sensor is fine.

[Greenleaves]

I purchase a cheap weather station for mine, gives me min/max plus humidity. Can view from the armchair as well.....now that's got to be a bonus

[Potstubsdustbins]

I have something similar to Greenleaves with the added bonus off two sender units one for the green house and one for outdoors.

I can also set an alarm for the GH temperature and would you believe it the forecast for the next 24 hours is pretty good too.

[Two_Sheds]

I'm going square eyed looking at them on the net.

I tend to do my research on amaz0n, filtering down to price (low to high: 285 results) and then only 4 stars and above (60 results). It cuts out a lot of fiddling about on different sites.

I then read the worst reviews, not the good ones. Today, using those criteria, I'd pick this one: http://www.amazon.co.uk/TFA-30-5026-...n+thermometers
which is similar to the one I bought several years ago and is still going strong. £11.50, delivered. (I wasted more than that on cheap ones that broke all the time).

When I decide on a brand of thing I'd like, I then enter it into the devilish search engine under "shopping" to find the best price
(also checking the devilish auction site)

[gardening_gal]

Thanks everyone.

TS, I have this TFA gadget which lives in my daughter's room as we were concerned about dampness at the time and we wanted to monitor changes that we were making to ensure the figures were actually changing rather than us just thinking they were. It's never missed a beat in years, I would definitely buy this brand again.

However, after reading the comments about weather stations, I have succumbed to the idea of being able to monitor the temps in the tunnel from my desk, rather than having to go out there to check, especially at night when it's cold or wet or I just can't be bothered. And I liked the ability to add extra sensors.

So, after doing some reading about them (and following the Amazon 'whittle down' theory) I have ended up ordering this CLIMEMET Wireless weather station. Only I ordered it elsewhere for £1.95 cheaper.

It also has the Min/Max function although you do need to manually reset in order for the unit to show updated data. The more expensive version could do this automatically apparently but you can only link one sensor with that model and I wanted to add more than one.

The reviews seem positive so hopefully it will help me learn more about temps and help ensure my plants get looked after with more than just guesswork.

I do hope no-one is now going to post to say they have/had this model and it's rubbish.

[Kristen]

I have succumbed to the idea of being able to monitor the temps in the tunnel from my desk, rather than having to go out there to check, especially at night when it's cold or wet or I just can't be bothered. And I liked the ability to add extra sensors.

Aggghhhh!! Had I but of known that I would have spoken up about mine!

I have logging temperature sensors, so I get continuous recording of the temperature (on my PC). I find that more useful than knowing the absolute Minimum temperature, as I am (somewhat ...) interesting in knowing how-long the temperature was low etc. I also have an alarm rigged up for low temperature and so on and so forth.

I also have a logging weather station (hooked up to Wunderground) so that I can see my (outdoor) weather when away from home, or even when I am at home sat at my PC - like now

These are the temperature sensors I have:
TEMPERATURE LOGGER



pls note that there is a "long range" one, which I have in the greenhouse.The distance is less than the maximum specified, it has clear line of sight to the sensor (in the house, on the windowsill) although there is a hedge in-between, and it is on the limit of transmission.

I have other sensors in the conservatory, and I move the to airing cupboard / boiler room etc. at times to see how the temperature varies during the day/night to consider if they are suitable for raising various seeds that Like It Hot

For anyone interested there's another thread chatting about the Ins and Outs here:
http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ml#post1204873

[gardening_gal]

Apologies for not replying sooner and acknowledging your post Kristen, severe bout of vertigo left me in bed for a while.

Anyway, I'd have loved your set up tbh, the ability to have all that info on my pc appeals to my geek side.

However, I suspect all the bits would have totalled more than I was happy to presently spend.

My CLIMEMET gadget arrived today. The sensor and main unit both show the same temp so that seems a good start.

I have a high (chest height) 'shelf come table thing'' that has legs, in the tunnel and I'm planning on fixing the sensor to one of these legs so that it will sit roughly 3-4 feet off the ground. Does that sound a decent place for it?

If I put it too high the temps will be higher as obviously the heat rises and too low will mean cold from the ground will affect the readings. I figured somewhere in the middle?

[gardening_gal]

Well since no-one was around to tell me 'yay nor nay', the sensor is now fixed. (I lack patience sometimes. )

The temp in my tunnel is now 13.9C. No idea how 'average' that is for this area at this time but I have this increasing desire to have sensors everywhere now. It's really rather addictive, just keeping an eye on numbers.

I may have to go look out my anorak now.

(Do they still call 'nerdy' types who like trains, planes and data, anoraks? Or am I just showing my age again? )

Oh, it's just gone to 14C.

Lol, I may even get a big elastic band and wear this thing on my arm so I can easily check it all day long.