Kingrow1
Well-Known Member
For some time ive advertised where and how to place your thermometer in the grow room, this a primer for anyone intrested.
Ive copied and pasted some simple weather station data for placing your thermometer in the appropriate position form a meterologiacal fact sheet - https://www.weatherworksinc.com/temperature-measurement
2. The thermometer must be placed in the shade. If you put your thermometer in full sunlight, direct radiation from the sun is going to result in a temperature higher than what it should be.
3. Have good air flow for your thermometer. This keeps air circulating around the thermometer, maintaining a balance with the surrounding environment. Therefore, it is important to make sure there are no obstructions blocking your thermometer such as trees or buildings. The more open, the better.
Points one and two being the most relevant for our tents.
So trying to get an accurate reading of your canopy is very hard and requires you house and shade your thermometer with venting and not to simply place in the path of a shit load of light that will give you false readings.
You will find much simpler and better locations to place your thermometer rather than under the light or in the canopy, try the base or roof or back wall above the light, try shading in a box in good air flow, hec try everything but be aware of the science that can cause false readings.
I made up some broscience but its pretty close to accurate, to know that you have set your thermometer correctly place it outside the tent in the room the tent is in, are they both reading close to each other by a couple of degrees? If so your in the ballpark, if not then your reading light radiation and need to consider your accuracy again.
Anyone need to add or correct stuff then go ahead, this is just to make some aware that you can fuck up BIG time with something as simple as trying to read air temps of a thermometer
Ive copied and pasted some simple weather station data for placing your thermometer in the appropriate position form a meterologiacal fact sheet - https://www.weatherworksinc.com/temperature-measurement
2. The thermometer must be placed in the shade. If you put your thermometer in full sunlight, direct radiation from the sun is going to result in a temperature higher than what it should be.
3. Have good air flow for your thermometer. This keeps air circulating around the thermometer, maintaining a balance with the surrounding environment. Therefore, it is important to make sure there are no obstructions blocking your thermometer such as trees or buildings. The more open, the better.
Points one and two being the most relevant for our tents.
So trying to get an accurate reading of your canopy is very hard and requires you house and shade your thermometer with venting and not to simply place in the path of a shit load of light that will give you false readings.
You will find much simpler and better locations to place your thermometer rather than under the light or in the canopy, try the base or roof or back wall above the light, try shading in a box in good air flow, hec try everything but be aware of the science that can cause false readings.
I made up some broscience but its pretty close to accurate, to know that you have set your thermometer correctly place it outside the tent in the room the tent is in, are they both reading close to each other by a couple of degrees? If so your in the ballpark, if not then your reading light radiation and need to consider your accuracy again.
Anyone need to add or correct stuff then go ahead, this is just to make some aware that you can fuck up BIG time with something as simple as trying to read air temps of a thermometer
