Fluke 62 Mini Infrared Thermometer
by Fluke
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Fluke 62 Mini Infrared Thermometer
Customer Review: Reliable and More Usefull Than Anticipated
Summary: 5 Stars
Purchased this for business to check on heatflow issues within server cabinets in a data center. Easy to use, reliable and easy on batteries. Later at home, heard a buzzing coming from the main electrical circuit panel. Suspected a loose connection of something and was concerned about touching anything. Used the Fluke to find the hotspot, the main 200 amp circuit breaker was arcing internally.
Even later at home, needed to measure temps while making pizza dough from scratch. Couldn't find the cooking thermometer for the yeast and used the Fluke again. What a great idea, no possible contamination of food.
During the frozen winter here in northern Ohio, used it to find cold spots in the exterior walls where better insulation was needed. Even used it to tease the deer in the backyard like you would a tease cat with a laser pointer.
Yea, I know it's made in China but at least the company is headquartered here. I've used Fluke and many of it's acquisitions products for decades and have had positive experiences.
Customer Review: The coolest gizmo you never knew you needed
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this to assist me in honing my chocolate tempering skills as regular candy thermometers are such an amazing pain to use, but it ended up improving my cooking even further by alerting me to the fact that the thermostat on my oven was consistently off by nearly 40 degrees. I've no doubt it will come in handy the next time I think I have a fever, find some faulty weatherstriping or suspect an electronic component of overheating, too. It's well-built, accurate and its UI does pretty much everything right by default. My one complaint is that you have to open up the battery compartment to move the tiny little dip switch from Fahrenheit to Celsius--I personally think a recessed bubble switch on the housing would have been a wiser choice.
The package Amazon sent me was DUSTY beyond belief, so I have a feeling they don't sell too many of these, but everything inside the blister pack was in perfect working order.
Customer Review: Very slick (but check out the Raytek MT6)
Summary: 5 Stars
I have a Raytek (RAYMT6) MT6 Mini Temp Infrared Thermometer, which I love, and which seems to be the same thing as the Fluke 62, but for a lot less money. See my review for the MT6, which should be applicable to this item as well. I prefer the look of the Fluke version, but if I can save $35, I'll deal with having one that's black and gray.
Note that when I did some research I found that the ±1% stated in the description is misleading. Fluke's own specifications state that the 1% is only valid between 50-86ºF. The complete specs are:
10ºC to 30ºC (50º F to 86º F): ± 1ºC (2ºF)
Outside 10º C to 30º C (50ºF to 86ºF): ± 1.5ºC (3ºF) or ± 1.5% of reading, whichever is greater.
Below -10ºC (14ºF): ±2ºC (4ºF)
This is still good, but since the 1% is only valid over a 36º range of temperatures that aren't really that interesting, the 1.5% is more realistic.
Customer Review: Horrible
Summary: 1 Stars
I purchased one of these and entered a room that was 34 degrees Left the fluke 62 in there for a couple hours while I was in there. Four separate thermometers in various locations all read 36 and the flue checks the same area's at between 22 and 28. I haul produce and I I had relied on this it could possible cost me several hundred or thousand dollars in damages. 34 is cold, 28 is froze. This variance is unacceptable. When I showed the person running the warehouse he laughed at me and offered me a look in a drawer. He pulled it open and there was 5 of the same exact things. He told me they are a joke and that I wasted my money. It may be great at 500 degrees but at or near freezing it's useless.Customer Review: sticky trigger
Summary: 2 Stars
the Fluke 62 is a very ergonomic and simple tool to use. It provides accurate and fast temperature readings in fahrenheit and celsius in a range which is probably adequate for 99% of users.
My Fluke has a sticky trigger and hence the laser stays on even when you remove your finger from the trigger. It takes a fair bit of unnatural manipulating to get it to turn off which makes using it annoying. I tried dabbling a drop of teflon oil where the plastic trigger meets the electronic switch but this did not make much of an improvement.
In theory this should go back to the manufacturer as a defect- but I have not yet done this. I will see how responsive the customer service is.