Laser Thermometer

Every HVAC technician carries or should carry a laser non-contact thermometer. Such a thermometer is an excellent and inexpensive tool for the troubleshooting of heat related issues or for preventive maintenance.

When heating season comes, HVAC personnel or maintenance managers need to check furnaces, boilers, engines, and ventilation ducts for any possible issues in order to provide good service and maintain low cost of operations.

Laser non-contact thermometers are a safe and fast way to measure temperature. Overheating issues may relate to problems with breakers, motors, inefficient boilers and many other situations. Here technicians need to quickly measure the temperature of objects to start their diagnostic work.

If a surface is too hot and too far away from a person’s reach, the laser non-contact thermometer provides an excellent way of measuring temperature. As they are non-contact you can be a good distance away from an object.

How do you determine how far away you can be to measure temperature of the correct area?

Thermometers are graded by distance to spot ratio, which shows a relationship between distance and the area of measurement. The ratio 10:1 says, I can be 10 feet away from a furnace, and the thermometer will “see” an area of 1-foot in diameter and measure the temperature of that area. If I step back 10 more feet, the area of measurement will grow to 2-feet.

Valuetesters.com is an authorized distributor of high quality laser non-contact thermometers from reputable manufacturers, such as AEMC, Amprobe, Extech, Flir, Fluke, General Tools, Greenlee, Klein Tools, Mastercool, TIF Instruments, Testo or Yellow Jacket.