Waeco thermometer

Wan'a know how the beers are travelling at all times eh mate?

Can never be to careful when it comes to making sure the liquid golds cooled and ready arfter a big day behing the wheel! lol.

It's a good idea Roachie. Im gueesing the unit would have to be remote? I'll be intrested to hear if it can be hard wired.

Could be a goa!

Roachie,

I don't know but it looks like an Engel one which runs of a AAA battery so I think it would be difficult to hardwire. Has a reasonable lenght wire but would need a bit joined in to go back to front. Probably better sticking with the Jaycar unit even though sometimes the quality is questionable.

goodday roachie
we have the dick smith 1 about the same price has about 2m of cable runs off a watch battery we have the waeco 80l it sits on passenger side with opening sied to road freezer end touching back of seatwith it like this i am able to thread the cablethru and sit the readout on the console no backloight on this one
will be listening for you on hf friday night if you are about we leave early friday and 1st stop is port broughton for night then we head northwillsee how time goes on way south to catch up
had to go back and correct spelling etc and i havent even touched trucksters bottle of plonk lol

steve

0Hi Roachie
I have an Engel one. It has about a 6 meter lead,Imeasured it out at six paces.i am
6ft tall.It gives a ambient temp&fridge temp. I use mine in the . engel as a freezer with the probe in the middle of that It also gives the min/max temps. I am
satisfied with the read out it gives. Dont now the cost
cheers Brian

can be hard wired but the existing wiring is too light and fragile (eg easily stretched to break point )(i have done it) and no backlight also the back stand breaks off very easily .
having said that dads is an engel one basically the same .

go the jacyar one and be happy for the same price basically .

has a few extra features but still not backlit from memory?

i have no affiliation with "JAYCAR" except being a frequent customer LOL

cheers

Hi Roachie,
How ya doin mate?
I dont have a thermometer myself but i was thinking ...I use a hand held one which sits in the ctr air vent of my GQ so I can keep a track on air con temp.

As far as the backlight goes....would be hard to set up internally i know BUT...
I have seen these cute and affective miniture blue lights that run off the cig lighter, similar to the ones some hot rodders use on the bonnet of their cars. Anyway, these things would work excellent pointing at the face of the gause, the blue light would reflcet off the background giving you enough light to read the temp at night without making the dash look like a disco dance floor.

Brian from WA said he has the engle one, well it seems to be long enough as far as wires go but i would suppose if its got the Engle badge on it, price would make it over priced.

If you want to check out the lights, i seen them at supercheap autos, and i seem them on a dash as well in amtes car, very impressive indeed, light does not get heavy on the eyes at night and can be removed when not used.
Regards Angelo

Thanks to everyone for your replies.
I currently have a Jaycar one (about 5 months old) and it sort of works. It's supposed to have a permanent blue backlight (when power is on), but that only works when it wants to. It often gets stuck on 10 degrees. The beeper was going off all the time for no reason, so I cut the wires to the speaker etc etc.
I'll keep looking!! I know VDO make one as well, so maybe that'll be the way to go.

Hi Roachie - I have a WAECO and and Engel one - they are basically the same except that the Waeco has audible alarms. Neither has backlighting.

If you are going to the trouble of monitoring the temperatures then alarms are a 'must have' feature IMO.

Cheers,
Pete