Thermoworks pH Meter

Anyone have any experience with Thermoworks pH meters?

http://www.thermoworks.com/products/pH/8680_8681_8682.html

 

The 8680 model (on sale for $29) claims only +/- 0.3 pH accuracy. If I'm spending the money on a meter, I was a lot more accuracy than that - that's just too wide a range. Read the mash as 5.3, but it's really somewhere between 5.0 and 5.6? That's just not good enough.

 

The next step up is +/- 0.2. Still not good enough for brewing. Their most expensive one seems equally equipped and priced as many of the recommended pH meters.

 

I mean, Kai's recommending that even +/- 0.1 isn't good enough (although let's remember that he IS a German engineer). The most expensive of the three, would probably be OK - but once you get into spending $75, you've got a ton more options in terms of what meters are available.



Seem like a LOT of people are into pH meters these days? I remember a year or so back, it was refractometers, everyone - EVERYONE (even me) was buying them, now today it seems that everyone wants a pH meter (again, even me). I'm predicting next year will be dissolved-O2 readers!

 

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