A while back I got an inexpensive electronic radio shack indoor/outdoor thermoneter as a gift. It had an 'outdoor wire' with some type of 'sensor' at the end.
I put it on my dock with the outdoor wire running into the water (stapled to a piling) and it worked great to give me both air temp & water temp at the same time. Until something (beaver. muskrat, otter?) bit off the wire near the sensor. Same thing happened to 2 friends that had the same thermometer.
Anyone know if there is anything special about the sensor (certain type metal, etc. ), or if it's mainly just a means of getting enough exposed metal surface area to register the external temp? If the latter, I wonder if just soldering something like a spade connector onto the end of the external wire will restore the external temp function.
Hint to anyone else using something similar in the water: attach a piece of plastic conduit to a piling and drop the external sensing wire down the conduit. That will protect it from whatever might want to chew it off.
I put it on my dock with the outdoor wire running into the water (stapled to a piling) and it worked great to give me both air temp & water temp at the same time. Until something (beaver. muskrat, otter?) bit off the wire near the sensor. Same thing happened to 2 friends that had the same thermometer.
Anyone know if there is anything special about the sensor (certain type metal, etc. ), or if it's mainly just a means of getting enough exposed metal surface area to register the external temp? If the latter, I wonder if just soldering something like a spade connector onto the end of the external wire will restore the external temp function.
Hint to anyone else using something similar in the water: attach a piece of plastic conduit to a piling and drop the external sensing wire down the conduit. That will protect it from whatever might want to chew it off.
