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Review on ALLOSUN Digital Thermo-Hygrometer with Humidity Alarm & Long Probe: High-Quality Humidity Monitor and Dew-Point Meter by Joe Nieves

Revainrating 1 out of 5

Dew Point Gauge - UPDATED

UPDATE: Bought three of these four months ago. At the moment one works, the other has a faulty display (illegible) and the other differs in humidity accuracy by more than 10% from the only one that works properly. This is 67% of the failures. If you buy it, good luck at the dice game: you should get a good one out of three times. Original rating: Finally a permanent dew point display. America seems obsessed with a useless relative humidity measurement, and the vast majority of weather stations only provide relative humidity information. If I say the relative humidity is 50% and ask if that means it's uncomfortable, all you can say is "Maybe," but if I say the dew point is 65 degrees, you can say "Yes!" to say. Find out online and see for yourself what the dew point means. It's big enough to be easy to read and hangs well on the wall. It also has a stand that holds it well too. The probe can be extended a little over 30cm from the base, so it would be difficult to conveniently place the probe outside, and the wire is a bit thick to run along a door or window gap. However, they are so cheap that you can buy a pair and put one by a window or just take it outside for a while. The dew point (and relative humidity - if you really think that number makes sense) are updated within a few seconds. Why 4 stars instead of 5: I bought three of these and found that one reads all three data points well below the other. two. This shows the volatility of production. There is no way to calibrate them. So when you get it, check the temperature by comparing it to another thermometer you know to be accurate and check the relative humidity using the brine test method. This can be found online and is very easy to do. Basically, it produces a fixed level of 75% relative humidity in a closed container (a good way to test any hygrometer). If All-Sun reads 75% after 12-24 hours, that's good.

Pros
  • Easy Setup
Cons
  • Operating Speed