Etekcity Lasergrip 800 Non-contact Digital Laser IR Infrared
Etekcity Lasergrip 800 Non-contact Digital Laser IR Infrared Thermometer, Temperature Gun, -50°C~750°C ( -58°F~1382°F ), Yellow/Black (Not suitable for measuring body temperature)
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| Weight: | 310 g |
| Dimensions: | 20.32 x 5.08 x 10.16 cm; 310 Grams |
| Brand: | Etekcity |
| Model: | Lasergrip 800 |
| Colour: | Yellow and Black |
| Dimensions: | 20.32 x 5.08 x 10.16 cm; 310 Grams |
Purchased to detect position of our under floor heating elements. Instant change in reading when temperature changes. Suggests not suitable for medical use. I have used to check eg forehead temperature without any issue – however ‘aiming’ laser light switched off. Thoroughly recommended.
If you’ve bought to balance radiator, note it doesn’t work on the thin inlet outlet pipes feeding the rad (variation is 10degrees jumping up and down in temp) so aimed at the lower left and lower right bottoms of rad for in/out temps and then worked fine.
If you have an aquarium you need this. So much easier to just ‘shoot’ the water to get a quick temperature read. Makes it so much easier to do water changes.
I purchased this item to monitor the radiator temperatures in the house and found it a great product and has identified issues in a few radiators. Also use it in the kitchen and for monitoring room temperatures.
Works great on liquids, which is my main use for it. Didn’t work as well on Teflon frying pan before adding oil, but after oil was spot on.
It’s cheap and does the job. Overall happy with it.
Actually surprised how easy to use this is, the display is clear, the laser pointer works (the cat loves it). Temperature readings aren’t dead accurate, they never are on these things, even calibrated models.
Try to be around a meter away from the object and hold in position for 5 or more seconds for best results. I use this for reference / comparison only, so don’t be worried if you’re taking a car temperature for example and a reads a little out, however it is within a few degrees at temperatures below 100c a good way out above that on heating elements etc, but as long as you know, you can work with it and compares well with brands more than 10 x the cost.
I bought it to check radiator temperatures and look for cold points around windows and doors that needed better insulation. It’s lightning fast, very easy to use and read, and agrees with my other thermometers. Recommended.
Overall, a good product well worth the money.
Using the thermometer is a piece of cake. Pull the trigger to turn on, pull again to get a reading, which is clearly displayed and easy to read. Theres even a little laser pointer that tells you which spot you are measuring.
We now always use this device to check the heat of the stone before cooking and have produced some of our best pizzas to date. I recommend it for this reason alone but I guarantee that once its in your hand you will end up measuring the temperature of other random objects around the house!
However, have tested it on other items around the house. Saw a few complaints that it wasn’t picking up the correct temperature of fridges / freezers, so put a digital thermometer in there for half an hour then tested with the Etekcity.
Freezer (DT / Etek): -23.4C / -23.6C
Freezer (DT / Etek): 6.0C / 5.5C
Note that the description says the accuracy is 2% or 2C so this is well within that so overall I think it’s safe to say this is pretty accurate and can handle the colder temperatures as well as the warm.
Also worth ignoring the 1-star reviews on here from idiots who bought it to measure body temperature – it clearly says in the description that this isn’t for that purpose, and with the margin of error stated above wouldn’t be much use anyway. Not only that but some of them have complained that they are getting readings of 34C so that would apparently mean they have hypothermia. 34C is actually a fairly normal surface temperature on the human body… I presume they are expecting 37C as this is the most quoted core / internal temperature.
So many things you find that it would be so useful to check it’s temperature.
If a dashcam gives a maximum temperature it can cope with, you put it in the window but in the sun all day how sure can you be you’re not going from baking to breaking? I was surprised that in a mild spring day the albeit black dashboard got to over 60C so I now take it down for the day. Actually use Magnetproa’s circular neodymium countersunk magnets in the car’s footwell to snap them quickly out of the way.
For not much money, this is accurate, easy to use and a pleasure to see explicit empirical values for temperatures you’d find impossible otherwise to check.
Point and shoot, let go to hold the temp onscreen and flip back and forth from C to F and vice-versa.
Backlight and laser add to the quality.
Battery included.
(It’s overcast now with the windows open, car dashboard is still 42C (107F), acting like a radiator, no wonder a foil screen helps (search for “Freesoo”, it’s a winner for sun and frost).
If you’re a racer, maybe go to Rye House kart racetrack, this would be great for testing tyre and track temperatures, for info down below the tarmac in the golf car park is 27.6C/81.6F.
My palm is 34.9C/94.8F…. addictive!!
Dashcam is 30C/86F and it’s max operating temp is 60C so all safe but it’s back on it’s magnet holders when I get out.
Parts of a car engine can be checked.
See how hot the exhaust air of an air-con vent is, then how chilly the air is.
I point out at the sky and it changes when it’s a cloud, blue sky or the sun!!! -20C for the sky, 10C underside of a cloud and 100C+ for the sun .
Decent distance-to-spot ratio…. 12 to 1, so you need an area that is at least a twelfth of how far away you are from it. From a foot away, the spot needs to be an inch across, at least.
Bought 2!!
Can turn the backlight off and on, only 3 buttons needed…. Point and shoot, so easy.
Internal fridge items to test.
Solid construction, Etekcity, never heard of them but they’ve a brilliant product here.
I’m measuring 22mm pipes. Stick masking tape to the pipes where you want to measure (as suggested in the instructions). I tested 4 or 5 different paints and materials and masking tape was best. Use about an inch square well stuck down. Test your IR thermometer from different distances and to check whether the laser spot is aligned with the position where it measures temp. On mine the measurement position is about 1cm below the laser spot, and about half a centimetre to the left when the gun is held between 10cm and 20cm away. Work out what yours is doing and aim it accordingly. You need to hold the gun no further than 20cm away for a 22mm pipe otherwise it’s measuring a cooler area round the pipe as well as the pipe itself, and the alignment matters at these relatively short distances.
This gives you an IR measurement of the surface temperature which is somewhat cooler than the water in the pipe. You can find out the correspondence between the IR surface temp and the water temp in the pipe e.g. by filling a piece of 22mm pipe with boiling water, putting a jam or laboratory thermometer in it and comparing the internal water temp with the IR surface temp as it cools. Mine showed the internal water temp to be 10% higher in deg C at an IR measured 40C, rising to 15% higher in deg C at an IR measured 70. Ie if you measure 40 C on the pipe surface the water is at 44 C and if you measure 70 C the water is at 80.5 C. You need to be confident of the calibration of your water thermometer. If it’s a lab thermometer – fine; my jam thermometer gave exactly 100 C (+/- less than 0.5C) in boiling (soft) water and I’m assuming it’s reasonably reliable below that.
So for 15 I can get accurate monitoring temperatures of the actual water in the pipes.
Having said that – it’s a good bit of kit – soft grip textured handle which opens up to find the battery compartment complete with a shrink wrapped 9V battery inside waiting to be connected. If you haven’t connected a 9V battery before then don’t panic it’s very easy – on the connector you will see two types of connector – one for each terminal – you will see two matching ones on the battery – what you need to do is make sure the opposite looking ones connect (one on the battery and one on the terminal) and if you’ve got it right then the battery should audibly SNAP onto the connector.
Once this has been completed, you can GENTLY but firmly place the now connected battery and connector back into the empty area – don’t worry if you have to push slightly firmly against the pad at the top of the compartment – this is normal – just make sure you don’t rip any of the cables loose.
Similarly when it comes to disconnecting the battery from the connector (to stop accidental battery run down), use gentle force to pry them apart otherwise you might rip the wires from the connector.
For the couple of times that I used it the temperatures that were returned seemed accurate, but I didn’t have any type of calibration items to check and this isn’t one of those highly accurate units that would cost a lot more to buy, so use judgement when taking measurements.