Min & Max Thermometers

RE: Min & Max Thermometers

mistyash — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 18:11:49 GMT

We purchase our electronic ones from company called ETI they cost about £10 each and have an alarm on them as well .

If you put the probe in to a injection vial which has water in this avoids the fluctuations when the door is opened .

Seem to work in our fridges

RE: Min & Max Thermometers

Ems — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 17:40:50 GMT

I'd imagine so, I think it basically just depends where you put the sensor(s) - ours had little cables you left inside the fridge and the thermometer screen sat on top of the fridge.

I think it says fridge/freezer because you can use it in either maybe?

RE: Min & Max Thermometers

Kerry Brennand DipAVN (Surgical) RVN A1 MBVNA — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 17:33:45 GMT

Thanks Ems, this says its for fridge/freezer so this will still be OK to work in the dispensary/prep room?

RE: Min & Max Thermometers

Ems — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 17:25:09 GMT

I don't know where it came from but it's very similar to this one:

http://www.thermometerspecialist.co.uk/featured/catering-thermometer/fridge-thermometers/digital-fridge-freezer-thermometer-with-conformity-scale-30-1042

Sorry for lack of details!

RE: Min & Max Thermometers

Chippet — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 16:31:10 GMT

Search in Amazon for these

Digital Max Min Growroom Or Greenhouse Thermometer - Green

RE: Min & Max Thermometers

Sal the 1st — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 11:39:45 GMT

pleased to hear they arent mercury - I have a coloured spirit one at work, its actually a greenhouse thermometer - does its job well, mine is easy to reset but mine is hung on the wall so unlikely to get damaged unless somebody throws something at it

RE: Min & Max Thermometers

Kerry Brennand DipAVN (Surgical) RVN A1 MBVNA — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 10:07:36 GMT

Ems please could you find out where the digital ones you use are from thanks

RE: Min & Max Thermometers

Kerry Brennand DipAVN (Surgical) RVN A1 MBVNA — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 10:06:42 GMT

Thanks for your replies. Sal the ones we currently use are from NVS - they aren't mercury but similar design. 2 blue lines representing maximum and minimum. There is moveable black lines above this that change according to the temperature which is read at the bottom on the black line. Using a magnet these black lines are then reset after recording the temperatures. But we are finding often the black line actually goes into the blue line (which it shouldn't do) and gets stuck!!! As they are only in glass they are easily broken if dropped or someone places something on top of them without realising (vets!!). Our fridge has a built in thermometer so that's fine. Just struggling to find ones that will work without constantly breaking for our dispensary and prep room

RE: Min & Max Thermometers

Ems — Mon, 09 Feb 2015 20:41:02 GMT

We had great digital ones but I'm not sure where they came from :-/ I liked them because they were easy to read!

RE: Min & Max Thermometers

Sal the 1st — Mon, 09 Feb 2015 20:12:31 GMT

[quote user="Kerry Brennand DipAVN (Surgical) RVN A1 MBVNA"]We have had various types including the mercury ones from NVS but they just break easily. [/quote]

er I hope you dont have them now! and what are you doing that they keep breaking?

RE: Min & Max Thermometers

Louise Royle RVN CertCFVHNut — Mon, 09 Feb 2015 17:34:59 GMT

we use thermo data loggers, which you set an alarm for max-min setting and can therefore easily glance at the reader if there's no alarm all is ok, we use them in the rooms where drugs are stored e.g cons room disp and prep room and separate ones in the fridges. they are checked daily and any that have alarmed are doubled checked on the computer for the cause of the alarm, and re-set weekly. We had a VMD inspection last Jan and passed with outstanding remarks so these are ok for that purpose. Plus if you have petplan points, you can use them to purchase the loggers at no cost to the practice. Think we got ours from JAK. So easy to set up and use we have the student nurses check them.