Joes Racing 55015 Memory Pyrometer

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Joes Racing Products 55015 MEMORY PYROMETER 1400.

Joes Racing 55015 Memory Pyrometer Review

This product does what it says it will, and more, but it doesn't make it easy.

I got this pyrometer to measure tire temperature profiles. That's important for finding the right tire pressures for best performance. I was attracted to this one rather than the competition as it offers more memory, it can record up to 20 temperatures. It will do that, but its very fiddly, its taken me most of a week of practice to reliably get tire temperatures. You have to manually select a memory slot (1-20), then take a temperature, then manually store the temperature, then remember to select another memory slot (lather rinse, repeat). It would be a lot easier if taking a temperature automatically entered it in the current memory and advanced the memory slot. Then you could do it quickly, efficiently and one handed.

The buttons on the pyrometer are very fiddly. There are up and down buttons to select the memory you want to store. The buttons don't always register, or they double click and you skip a memory slot. You have to watch the display like a hawk to make sure you get all the readings you want. The pyrometer will only store a reading if you select the memory slot first, and then only if it feels like it. If you take a reading, then select a slot, the store button beeps and does nothing. If you don't hold the trigger for long enough for it to be convinced you took a reading, it'll beep and do nothing. Sometimes when you press the store button it'll beep and do nothing, just to annoy you, when you've most carefully selected a memory slot before hand and held the button down for many seconds. It has an auto off function, but doesn't seem to think that using the up/down buttons are important enough to delay turning itself off. (So it'll turn itself off in the middle of you being frustrated by the fiddly buttons.) Sometimes it just turns off to show you who's boss, even if you have the trigger pulled.

The specs are also a bit confusing. The specs say the temperature range is up to 2500F, but that's for an attached probe, it'll only measure up to 1472F by IR.

The manual is also a bit confusing, and the diagrams are printed so small you can't read the labels. I'd read the manual before getting the pyrometer and the items below were still a surprise to me.

That's the bad news, if you persist you can make it work. The good new is it does more than I expected it to. There's the min-max-ave-diff mode. if you hold down the button and scan the pyrometer across something, it'll record the maximum, minimum and average temperatures, as well as the difference between the max and min. That's very handy for getting a quick handle on how even the temperature profile of an item (such as a tire) is. The pyrometer also has a socket for a temperature probe (which is calls a "type k"), this one works with my pyrometer probe from Longacre racing, which is a nice bonus. What's neat is it can use the probe to calibrate its emissivity setting. Most IR pyrometers allow you to adjust the emissivity setting, but only give general guesses as to what to set it to. Using the probe allows you to measure the emissivity of the item you're interested in. (It thinks my tires have an emissivity of 0.96.)

I've been using the pyrometer to measure 8 points across each of the front tires. This is getting me some very interesting tire temperature profiles.

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