AcuRite 00795A2 Galileo Thermometer with Glass Globe

I love this set so when I broke the thermometer I had ordered a new set. When the new one came in it had a broken thermometer, when I requested a replacement I had gotten another new set that was good. The awesome part was I had received the 2nd set before I had a chance to send the 1st set back.

Purchased as a gift, recipient not able to set up until this past week. Came in handy as there was severe weather forecast for our area and it functioned as it was supposed to. Only drawback is the fact that the 2 glass weather and temperature predictors merely sit on the wood base, easily jarred if there is a heavy walker in the house.

Filling barometer is not easy or fun. But it is really nice set when done.. Sorry to say the thermometer doesn’t work on the one I bought. Maybe they will replace it. Hope so.

My parents loved this gift I got them. I tried to teach them that science matters and these work on the principles of temperature and pressure. After many weeks of fascination all they’ve learned is that “there must be some kinda magic to it, they seem to go up and down on their own”.

Works great and looks exactly as pictured in the photos. I saw at least one lie in the reviews about the functionality of the thermometer, in which it was stated that the beads cannot move past each other to tell the correct temperature. It is true that the beads cannot move past another, but they are arranged in ascending order from bottom to top. They will never need to move past each other in this arrangement. If the temperature rises from 71 to 73 degrees and your 72 degree bead needs to drop to the bottom to tell the correct temperature, the 64 and 68 degree beads would already have been resting at the bottom and would not prevent the 72 degree bead from moving in any way.

The provided wooden stand is real ugly. I tossed that in the trash, but I’m happy with the quality and functionality of the thermometer and barometer.

Encantado con este artefacto. Primeramente debido a la fragilidad del material tema lo peor en su envo, pero viene perfectamente empacado de fabrica adicional al empaque enviado por Amazon, as que llego en perfectas condiciones. cuenta con tres partes la base hecha de madera solida y terminada con barniz satinado, la torre de temperatura completamente sellada y con los globos indicadores y el barmetro en un vidrio delgado al cual hay que comprar por separado el agua destilada y el colorante para ponerlo en funcionamiento. El funcionamiento es sencillo y viene explicado en el manual, es bastante preciso dentro de los rangos de temperatura que maneja (vienen nicamente en grados Farenheith). Como elemento de decoracin y tema de conversacin es fascinante. Un accesorio que te dejara satisfecho esttica y funcionalmente.

So, my girlfriend is a CNA at a local nursing home. She saw this thing in one of the resident’s rooms and was amazed! She thought it was the coolest thing and just HAD to have one! She snapped a pic and sent it to me to find out what it was and where to find one. A few minutes searching on Amazon and we found it.

Basically, it’s a 16th century weather station. The tall cylinder houses a handful of floating balls, each filled with a different liquid, each with a different density so as the temperature rises, the balls rise or fall. You read the temperature on a small metal tag attached to each ball – the lowest one is the temp. Cool huh?

There’s also the globe – which works as a barometer. Just fill it about halfway full using water (distilled water is preferred, to avoid leaving hard water deposits on the inside of the globe) and check the level of water in the tube. The higher the water in the tube, the lower the atmospheric pressure, indication a low pressure system and incoming storms! There’s a small syringe and a thin plastic tube provided to fill the globe.Just wet the tube, thread it into the globe, fill the syringe and squeeze. It takes 4-5 to get the globe full.

The glass sections fit onto a handsome wooden base, with cutouts for each part.

Very cool, vintage conversatoin piece!

Definitely works, and predicts storms, folks in the office like to peek in and see with it’s doing as they walk by my door. My barometer, though, has condensation inside (I pretend it is clear clouds). I posted a picture: it is your typical condensation (so minus one star) and I’ve even tried swishing the water around to remove it – which it does for awhile and then the condensation comes back. Condensation is on the side facing the sun, whether it is 2′ or 8′ from my window I have that problem. I used distilled water so I wouldn’t get mineral rings inside the globe, as there would be no way to clean it off so maybe that is the problem? Do as another person recommended for filling it – detach the syringe from the tube to fill the syringe – don’t pull the tube out each time you need to fill the syringe. I put the tube in, then placed the globe in a coffee mug (it rested upside down with the rim of mug holding it in position) so I didn’t have to hold it while filling. I didn’t have any trouble with the parts fitting into the base, so though some reviewers did, so not all units are defective. I do recommend that once you’ve filled the barometer, set it in a bowl or other water catching device for about two weeks to observe it and ensure it won’t overflow. It took me about that long to figure out how much water should be in the tube based on the fluctuations of air pressure in my area, and though it never overflowed, there was a time I was convinced it would have done so had I not been there to remove some of the water out of the tube (I rotated the globe and got it to flow back into the base unit).