[Cob] How to measure heat inside oven or furnace?

[Joseph R Dupont]

How about having all of these work shops take place at the pine valley
indian reservation in South
Dakota?  Give a few free slots to the native americans.

On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 18:29:01 -0800 (PST) "Shannon C. Dealy"
<dealy at deatech.com> writes:
> On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Peter Kaulback wrote:
> 
> > I'm almost done my oven and am considering a rocket stove for a
> > livestock area, heat is precious at lambing especially if it's 
> damp :(
> >
> > I've always wondered how one might determine the temperature 
> inside an
> > oven or furnace, is there a special thermometer one can use?
> 
> A "pyrometer" (basically a high temperature electronic thermometer) 
> can be
> used to measure temperature, no idea what they cost these days.  
> There are
> also some high temperature, optical thermometers (fairly low 
> precision I
> believe) I have seen which you aim at the object whose temperature 
> you
> wish to measure.  There is also the old fashioned way, a rough 
> temperature
> measurement can be acheived by looking at the color of the "glow" 
> from a
> hot object, I assume most people have seen steel in person or in
> pictures, glowing anywhere from dull red to white, there are 
> temperature
> color charts available, and the temperature color scheme as I 
> recall
> applies to pretty much any material (though the natural color of 
> the
> material may interfere with accurate assessment of the heat color).
> Unfortunately, I don't know of any color charts online for 
> temperature
> measurement, all the ones I found in a quick search were for image
> processing and photography which while related, are not quite the 
> same
> thing.
> 
> 
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