[Shop-talk] Auto thermometers and clocks

Peter Murray peterwmurray at gmail.com
Mon Feb 18 09:26:18 MST 2013


Your smartphone should be able to tell you much of this info. My Android
phone has an app called "Altitude" that provides this information using the
built-in GPS in my Motorola Atrix 4G. It doesn't report accuracy values,
but once it settles on a reading, it doesn't move much. I am sure there are
better apps. My Blackberry Curve of 2007 would report accuracy values of 3m
- so I don't think the GPS in a modern smartphone is all that inaccurate.

I know that the item below satisfies none of the requirements that Inch
stated, but this is another item to put in any (modern-ish) vehicle...

http://www.ultra-gauge.com/ultragauge/index.htm


On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 6:05 PM, <eric at megageek.com> wrote:

> I am looking for an add-on clock and external thermometer for my truck.
> Anyone know of one.
>
> Ideally, it would be hard wired to the truck (read <no batteries>) and it
> would be back lit.  (one that came on with the truck would be perfect.)
>
> Thanks.
>
> Eric P
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