- Hi, I'm Parris, and today
the table is back to being a table,
thoroughly disinfected after yesterday's video,
which if you missed it, the people at the Skoother
sent us an extra product to give away,
so if you watch that video and comment down below it,
there's a chance next week, your comment will be chosen
and you'll get to try one of these on your heels.
And today we're moving from touchably soft heels to
not having to touch something
to know exactly how hot it is.
This is an infrared thermometer.
Now if you're at all unsure which of these two products
I would rather receive on Valentine's Day,
as a guy, it's gotta be this one.
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Just what is an infrared thermometer?
And why does the average person need one?
Well, alright, the average person doesn't need one of these,
but it's so cool what it does.
And an infrared thermometer, it's a grip that you hold
and it shoots out an infrared beam,
which then comes back in and is measured,
and it tells you the temperature
of whatever it is you're pointing at.
It's basically used to measure the excitement level
of a group of molecules.
And if you give a cool instrument like this to a guy
to add to his tool collection on Valentine's Day,
you'll see some excited molecules.
This goes for under $20, and I have a link to it
down below this video.
This is the Etekcity Lasergrip 774 model
that can measure temperatures
from minus 50 degrees fahrenheit
to plus 716 degrees fahrenheit.
Now for a few more dollars, you can measure up to over
a thousand degrees fahrenheit.
Now I can imagine a woman looking at this
and saying, who in the world is gonna want something
that you can go around
and measure the temperature of things with?
But trust me, this is really cool.
You can use it in your car.
Measure how hot is the engine actually when it's running.
Not that you can do anything about changing that.
In the old days you could go to the carburetor
and lean out the mixture a little,
advance the spark timing.
These days the computer does all that stuff in your car.
It's one less thing guys are needed for.
Cars don't need us anymore,
or they're too complex to work on.
Electronics don't need us anymore,
or they're too complex to work on.
Zebra sharks don't need us anymore.
If you follow me on Instagram,
you know what I'm talking about there.
But with this you can sorta get back in the game,
be the equipment manager for the team or something.
And so the next time you go and see your mechanic,
you can mention, hey, I notice the intake manifold
is running a little hot.
Think we need to do somethin' about that?
So, come on, give us somethin' to measure.
Make us feel important.
Alright, important stuff to know from the instructions.
Do not point this at your eye, at someone else's eye,
at a reflective surface where it might bounce back
into your eye or into someone else's eye,
or an animal's eye.
OK, stay away from the eyes.
Got that.
This also measures surface temperature,
not internal temperature necessarily.
So, it's not accurate if you point it at your hand
to tell you whether you have a fever or not.
So they don't want you relying on it for that.
The further away from an object you go,
the larger area that's being measured.
So if you're 12 feet away from a wall,
you're measuring an area about a foot in diameter.
If you're just a foot away from the wall,
you're measuring about an inch in diameter.
So it takes a 9 volt battery,
which it does come with.
OK, we've got a cool, blue, LED screen here.
With a backlight you can turn on and off.
And you can turn the laser that works with this,
it's a separate little hole in the top
that shoots a laser,
so you can know exactly where you're measuring
the temperature of.
You can turn that on and off as well.
Thermostat set in the house for 70 degrees,
the ceiling fan's on low here.
This wall should be pretty close to that temperature.
So, I've pulled the trigger to activate it,
and it's showing me 73 degrees.
Now let's turn on the...
That's fahrenheit.
Let's turn on the laser.
Oo, yeah, there's a laser beam.
72.8, oo!
And it gives you a live read-out as,
if you hold the trigger in and move it around
you can find cold spots in your wall.
I gotta show you this.
OK, let's do some more wall measuring.
Press the trigger to turn it on.
There you can see that read-out gave a 73.0.
Now I'm gonna press and hold it.
You should be able to see,
yeah the laser dot on the wall.
And as I move it around, it refreshes the temperature
twice every second.
It's all pretty consistent.
Well that's an internal wall,
so you're gonna see those kinds of results.
And yes, it says never point at a person.
I'm gonna try it on my arm.
What am I comin' in at?
Oh, I'm not so hot after all.
It's accurate to within plus or minus
two degrees fahrenheit.
So I could be a little hotter than that,
But the skin out on the end of the arm here
isn't necessarily going to be real body temperature.
Come on, hit 90 degrees somewhere.
My phone is cool to the touch at the moment.
The aluminum backing to it.
But when it's active playing a game, or installing updates,
it does get pretty warm.
Let's see what temperature it is right now.
77.
So just above room temperature.
Interesting.
OK, let's see how frozen our frozen foods really are.
21, 18.
Some fish, oo we got some frozen fish.
Furnace vent.
Could probably do with some dusting.
Should have warm air blowing out right now.
The temperature for the room is set to 70.
86, 85.
Furnace vent in the bedroom.
Oo, 101.
Oh, that's up inside.
I think I'm gettin' on the inside of the aluminum tubing.
Our electric hot water heater is showing us 75
pretty uniformly on the outside,
so it's probably 50 something here in the garage.
Some heat is leaking out of it,
but it's not too bad.
Now from the outside of the house,
you don't want to see warm spots.
Let's see what temperature the tree is.
51, and then let's take a look over here.
50.9, that's good.
The oven's says it's at 350, let's check.
336.
Maybe it's lower because I've opened the door
and there's cold air goin' in.
Hmm, doesn't seem to have very even temperature inside.
Boiling water in the electric kettle.
(water boiling)
Yeah.
(water boiling)
212.
And we've got tea.
See, now that's interesting.
I'm gonna save measuring the temperatures in the engine
of the minivan for later when I can go out and take my time
and I can check the catalytic converter temperature
as well as the temperature of the exhaust gasses
at the very back of the muffler.
So, for just $17 you can give a guy back
a sense of purpose.
That's just 63 cents a day, or something like that.
Alexa?
What's 17 divided by 30?
- [Alexa] 17 divided by 30 is 0.56666666666667.
- (laughs) Thought I had broken it.
That's just 56 cents a day.
Find out more about the Etekcity Lasergrip thermometer
at the link down below this video.
And if you're really feeling generous,
maybe you can give the one
that measures up to a thousand degrees.
You can keep checking back for our future videos,
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Let's see what temperature it is.
72.6.
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