Conrad Infra red LCD temperature device

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	The Conrad Infra red temperature device comes in a nice cover with a detachable neckstrap. You can even put the soft cover through your belt and put the device in it. It is powered by 4 LR44 cells. It has a backlit for the display. Can be switched between Fahrenheit and Celsius reading. When not used it switch OFF automatically after 30 seconds.
	The gray button on the right side is powering up the device when the display is blank and is also the button to activate the real measurement for as long as this button is pressed. The reading will take 2 seconds before displayed after first time switched on.
	When the button is pressed once the display comes alive. Then aim the device on the spot you want to measure and press the button until the device shows a temperature. When you release the button it shows for 30 seconds the minimum, maximum and the last measured temperature when the button was released. By pressing the gray button again the old values are over written with the new ones. After 30 seconds not used the device switches OFF the display automatically.
	The size of the device is not larger as a normal size egg!
	Good working infra red temperature gun for a very good price!

Performance:

You see more and more electronic devices for lower prices. To measure the temperature of the humans there are already cheap LCD devices in the form of thermometer stick. Even infra red ear measurement devices are on the market but the limit of that was 45 degrees Celsius as highest reading.
Now the company Conrad Electronics (www.conrad.com) has in his catalog under part number 699.63.07 a good working infra red temperature gun we can use for measuring  the temperature of our engines with out touching them.

How to use? simple! 
When the car comes in we aim at the cooling by just making a slow circle of 3 centimeter diameter at a 6 centimeter distance will always give you the actual highest reading and that is what we are looking for. If you think you made a mistake just press the grey button again that will erase the previous readings and will store the new ones.  For the convenience of the lifetime of the batteries I removed one wire running to the backlit LED. This backlit stays ON until the gun is switching of automatically!
If you measure the glowplug temperature it should range average between 120 and 140 degrees Celsius.

The device work best when aimed at black colored cooling heads.
Readings on silver or shinny colors surfaces are not reliable and can give false readings!

Look here for more info about correct infra red readings

Calibration:

Today 24-06-2002 we placed the calibration results click here for more info!

Verdict:

The size is handy and can be used for left and right handed people. The readability is perfect and that makes this device a real wannahave No 1 for the real hardcore races. We used the the infra red gun during several races and found out it is worth any penny paid for it. It is at the moment the cheapest infra red gun and has the nice feature of reading minimum and maximum values and keeping them memorized in the display as long as it is switched on.
For EFRA and many national sanctioned races the use of other electronics in the car beside receiver and servo's is not permitted. 
So incar temp gauges like the EOS, MIP and VENOM devices are not permitted. 
So for real hardcore and competition racers this is a good way to take care of their engine temperature when other devices are not allowed! 

J Size and weight
J Display readability
J Price of 51 Euro

TWF8 rating ***** stars

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