Thread: Moisture Meters - performance and cost

John

I've got a little cheapie 4 prong one from ebay. Cost about $20 if I remember correctly. I never rely on it for an accurate reading in any particular piece of timber, but use it to determine change over time. I mostly use it for turning blanks that I have cut from green timber. I take a reading when it is first put away and then keep checking and recording the reading. When it stops changing then it is just about ready to go.

Not sure if this helps at all

cheers
WH

Just what I was thinking, WH.

I always have some quality dry hardwood in the shed. Even if the absolute measurement given by the instrument was not too flash in terms of accuracy, that does not matter much. I can take several readings from the wood I know is dried properly and compare the suspect timber's readings to those.

I am using a cheap one off ebay, I think I paid about $30.

Big screen display on the percentage with two prongs. I have been expecting the prongs to be the first thing to break, but so far after about 200 times of plugging still there.

Now that I have said that I am sure the next time I use them it will break.

I think it was Evanism who basically asked the same question only about two weeks ago, might be worth a look, not sure which forum




Pete

Thanks everybody.

I have ordered a cheapie from e-bay. If I throw it away in a couple of weeks, no big deal. I spill more wine than that.

Cheerio!