Thermometer overload !!!

[zekii]

I have 4 thermometers that I am using, and I probably should start trusting only 1 or 2 of them...

I am running a brinsea Oct20-eco, and the glass thermometer in the lid shows
99F, now when I insert my Brinsea digital spot check probe and take a reading I get 99.8F. a walmart meat probe digital thermometer reads 100.7F, and my accurite
digital thermometer reads 97F. 2 walmart glass aquarium thermometers read 98F
I have a digital thermometer inserted in a plastic egg that has a water bag wrapped around the probe, and that thermometer is reading 98.8F

Just put duck eggs in incubator last night, and from what I am reading duck eggs can be incubated a a lower range than chicken eggs.

 

[cva34]

I would go with the Brinsea spot check there range is very small and Accuracy really good (mine is anyway)..Too many thermometers will drive you NUTS...cva34

I have 4 thermometers that I am using, and I probably should start trusting only 1 or 2 of them...

I am running a brinsea Oct20-eco, and the glass thermometer in the lid shows
99F, now when I insert my Brinsea digital spot check probe and take a reading I get 99.8F. a walmart meat probe digital thermometer reads 100.7F, and my accurite
digital thermometer reads 97F. 2 walmart glass aquarium thermometers read 98F
I have a digital thermometer inserted in a plastic egg that has a water bag wrapped around the probe, and that thermometer is reading 98.8F

Just put duck eggs in incubator last night, and from what I am reading duck eggs can be incubated a a lower range than chicken eggs.

 

[Ceilismom]

The Spot Check is supposed to be a very good thermometer (I'd use it if I had one), and it sounds like the glass in lid is working well for you, too. The glass type tend to give you more of an "average" reading rather than fluctuating with every little change in temp. That's probably a good thing for those of us who tend to worry and fret.

I have not had good luck with the Accurite thermometers for incubating, in fact, I don't fool with digital any more. I stick an aquarium thermometer to the side of the incubator's lid (Brinsea 20 Eco) at about the same height as the glass thermometer that is part of the incubator, and they read the same all throughout incubation. Gives me a lot less stress.

 

[zekii]

Going to trust my spot check, and the glass thermometers over the other digital ones.
I don't think the accurite is sensitive enough and what I am seeing it seems to only move in increments of 2 degrees.

 

[zekii]

This morning the glass brinsea thermometer read 88, while the spot check gave me a reading
off 99.8F, I did not touch the adjustment control ... but why such a difference ?

 

[raimnel]

I think I'm gonna buy ME some glass NON digital thermometers! ASAP! but what is this spot check? I will have to google it lol

 

[mstricer]

That is what we have determined, the mercury are the most accurate. The digital from Walmart are never right most of mine will read 97* I have a wet/dry in my Farm Master and it works great.

 

[zekii]

Bought this Acurite 00888 on Amazon since my local Walmart does not carry this model, put the probe in a water wiggler, and so far this thermometer is matching the Brinsea glass thermometer + spot check temps exactly.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000PAQ32O/ref=pe_175190_21431760_A1_cs_sce_dp_3