🌡️ Fluke 971 Temperature and Humidity Meter Review

This is a quality product, easy to use, has a fast response time and reacts quickly to changes in temperature or humidity. It's comfortable to hold and rub, lightweight, and an essential tool for HVAC applications.

We have several of these gauges and compared to each other they differ by about 5 degrees which raised questions when the reviewer came to us and compared it to his own gauge. Since it doesn't come with a traceable certificate (e.g. NIST) I would suggest getting a meter with a traceable certificate to compare your meters against. Wouldn't buy it again for applications where accurate temperatures are needed.

Works well. Accuracy is within approximately 2% relative humidity compared to an atmosphere of known relative humidity. The device is very sensitive and changes quickly even if you breathe too close to the sensor. The instrument appears to have been modified from the original 971. The newer 971 doesn't have a touch shutter. In a way, this change is better because if you forget to pop the shutter, you'll still get a reading, but there's little chance that reading is right. I keep my 971 rolled…