Well, when you get it and test it; let us know!
I haven't had Dan's good fortune w/ my weather station: all I'm getting is precipitation and temp readings now.
The thermometer came in today and since there are no reviews on it here I thought I might as well provide one.
I got it on ebay. $17 and change, free shipping. I used it tonight and it did fine.
It's nothing too fancy which is okay with me. I wanted something to register the internal temp. of what what I'm smoking. It does that.
I have a $3.99 stand up oven thermometer I sit on a grate to tell me the temp. in the smoke chamber. It's very accurate.
I don't need a $50 - $99 turbo, dual probe, tactical bluetooth device to smoke with. Looks like I'm all set for around $20.
I did the ice water and boiling water tests and it registered +1/+2 degrees over in both tests. I don't see that as a problem.
The first 1.5" of the probe is tapered making for easy insertion. I've always found probe insertion in fish a pain. The probes tend to come lose, not enough to bite into.
I used it on a salmon filet tonight and inserted it ito the thickest part, which was none too thick, set it for 145 deg. and it did fine.
It has a bunch of pre-sets for beef, chicken, lamb etc. that will supposedly give you rare, med. rare, medium and so on but I intend to use the "custom" setting and just set it for what I want.
There is a plastic? handle between the probe and cord that Acurite says can handle temps. up to 700 deg. Hard to believe but I bet it can handle 500 easily.
The cord is that braided metal stuff you have to be careful with.
There are two well placed magnets on the back. I placed the thermometer on the refrigerator. The magnets are pretty powerful.
All in all, I like it a lot. Now we'll see if it stands the test of time.
If you have any questions, ask away and I'll try to answer.