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Re: [Shop-talk] IR temperature meter

To: "Elton E. (Tony) Clark" <eltonclark@gmail.com>, Shop Talk List
Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] IR temperature meter
From: Wayne <wmc_st@xxiii.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:18:33 -0500
On 1/29/2010 1:20 PM, Elton E. (Tony) Clark wrote:
> I have a little IR temperature meter ....
> .... . I aimed the meter at the clear blue sky:  It read minus 15
> degrees!!!!!!       Is it really measuring something?  Is that a default?

I had a Harbor Freight one that did the same thing.  Apparently there is little 
to no infrared (or whatever radiation it's looking for) from space.

-Wayne
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