[Shop-talk] IR temperature meter

[Wayne]

On 1/29/2010 1:20 PM, Elton E. (Tony) Clark wrote:
> I have a little IR temperature meter ....
> .... . I aimed the meter at the clear blue sky:  It read minus 15
> degrees!!!!!!       Is it really measuring something?  Is that a default?

I had a Harbor Freight one that did the same thing.  Apparently there is little to no infrared (or whatever radiation it's looking for) from space.

-Wayne