Thermometers

Re: Thermometers

Gemma Burden RVN — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:06:43 GMT

[quote user="xhappysvn21x"]

what are the minimum and maximum level of the digital thermometers, or does it depend on what you buy?

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It will depend on what you buy, but the thermometers we use go down to somewhere in the low 90's and at least to 106 degrees farenheit (only know this due to a heat stroke dog that its idiot owners had left in the car in the middle of the summer).

[quote user="Sal the 1st"]

[quote user="Gemma Burden RVN"]

We are using digital thermometers, but are stuggling to find any that read in farenheit that don't cost a fortune. We all know we should move over t celsius, but old habits die hard, and although I am not old enough to have ever been taught in anything other that celsius (and actually wouldn't have a clue what the temperature was like if the weather was done in farenheit) I have only ever worked in practices that use farenheit so have learnt to work using it. We have never had any problems with digital thermometers, they have always worked fine, plus they have the advantage of being less breakable than mercury thermometers.

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try poundland for the baby thermometers (they have a little black button on the back near the battery compartment and you can set them with a pin or a paperclip to read either F or C)

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Going to have to go and have a look for them, and they will be tons cheaper that what we get from Dunlops.

Re: Thermometers

Katie Mansfield — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:32:32 GMT

[quote user="xhappysvn21x"]

what are the minimum and maximum level of the digital thermometers, or does it depend on what you buy?

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Soz, don't understand the question - do you mean how high / low temperatures do they read? Mine gives a L reading for low below 30C. don't know about the other end of the scale - never encountered anything really high - luckily!!!!

K x

Re: Thermometers

xhappysvn21x — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:10:39 GMT

what are the minimum and maximum level of the digital thermometers, or does it depend on what you buy?

Re: Thermometers

Katie Mansfield — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:49:09 GMT

[quote user="Delightful"]

I saw a mercury one left in for so long once the dog went home with it, and sat down and it broke in half!! True

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OMG!!!!! I've never ever seen anyone use a mercury thermometer and let go. All I can say is must have been a very tolerant dog! (and hopefully lucky, giving the toxic properties of mercury! Not to mention the glass fragments in a very sensitive area........)

K x

Re: Thermometers

Sal the 1st — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:06:24 GMT

[quote user="Gemma Burden RVN"]

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try poundland for the baby thermometers (they have a little black button on the back near the battery compartment and you can set them with a pin or a paperclip to read either F or C)

Re: Thermometers

Delightful — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:23:37 GMT

I saw a mercury one left in for so long once the dog went home with it, and sat down and it broke in half!! True

Re: Thermometers

Steph Worsley — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:05:06 GMT

we also use digital thermometers, find them better than mercury ones.....more accurate (how many people will leave a mercury thermometer in long enough to ensure getting an accurate temp!), quicker and less chance of different people reading different temps.

Re: Thermometers

Gemma Burden RVN — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:31:32 GMT