Fluke 62 Mini Infrared Thermometer

This is a REAL man toy. I have these at work and played with them there. We always have to pass it around for a bit of fun. Had to have one at home for computer, house leaks, fore heads, engine temps, fireplace, and dog butts. Seems to target well at about 10 feet, further than I expected. Just about instant reading and remembers highest seen. Has trouble going through glass, DUH!. Verified temps with house temp sensors, always within a half degree. As a toy its great, as a tool it's a hundred times easier than a probe, no waiting, no juggling meters. The only problem is at a work place it has legs.

Great for measuring hot or cold water temps. electrical wire or breaker temps. pipe temps.. HVAC air temps. Good for those ceiling discharge areas that you would normally need a ladder to measure.

PRoduct does what is advertised. I have been using it for about a month. To get an accurate reading you do have to be within about a foot of the object, the farther back you are the less accurate the reading. It beats using thermometers and having to wait several mintues for a reading.

I bought this product for 35$ more than the other options at amazon because the product description carried a range of temperatures of -40 to 700F. This is a mistake. The range on the packaging states clearly -30 to 500F. I guess I can make due but I would have bought the more inexpensive option had I known. Argg!!

I have enjoyed playing with this quite a bit. It is handy for cooking, for checking temperatures of things I don't want to touch (a wood stove, a bath of caustic chemicals for printed circuit board manufacture, etc.) However, I have found that it is fairly inaccurate at the low end of the scale. For instance, on a recent snowy day for which the weather report read a consistent 20 degrees Fahrenheit (which was consistent with a non-IR digital thermometer I had when I left it in the snow for a while), the Fluke IR thermometer was sometimes reading at times between eight and zero degrees Fahrenheit. I eventually figured out that the longer I had the thermometer outside, the lower its readings got -- if I took it out from a warm room outside and immediately took a temperature reading, it read approximately what I expected (20 degrees), but after about twenty seconds outside, it was reading 14 degrees, and the reported temperature kept dropping thereafter. (Note that I was using it to... Read more