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THIS is why I don't trust bulb thermometers. See the gaps?

I'm just thinking of how electronic thermostats work and figured maybe the problem was related. An electric thermostat usually works by increasing or decreasing the distance between two metals. The warmer temperature increases their individual size until the two metals touch. Cooling them makes...

Looking good so far. Humidity is different, but in addition to warming up, they are drying off. When I removed them from the freezer, they both collected a LOT of condensation! So as they are warming up, the water is evaporating. But high temps are the same, low temps are the same, high...

I'm trying something different for them. The two digital thermometers are about a year apart in age. And the older one has been in an incubator the whole time. So I put them both in the freezer. I left them in for about 1.5 hours, and finally got them to agree that my sister's poor freezer is a...

I figured you could "calibrate" the LG thermometers by nudging the glass tube up or down on the plastic sheet where the numbers are printed. The others I expected to do as you said and just record the differences. It was just the whole method of finding an accurate thermometer that got me...

I've got five thermometers. Two are digital thermometer/hygrometers. They are the kind you get from Wal-mart for $8. Then I've got three bulb-style thermometers. Two came with my LG incubators, and one is a cheap $1 bulb-style that came glued to a piece of plastic with the numbers on it. ALL...