Taking Recomendations for pH Meter and Digital Thermometer

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Given that these are pretty essential to good brewing, and I've already invested an shitload of time and money (and time is money) on brewing gear in recent years, I don't mind dropping a bit of my ill gotten loot on some electronic bling.

The ph meter must be easily calibrated, waterproof, and preferably come with bottles (not sachets) of buffers (4.0 & 7.0) and storage solutions, and be way better and cooler looking than the cheapo one I've nicked borrowed from work. Should be in .01 increments

Thermometer should be a probe type, waterproof, easily calibrated and be in .1 increments,

There's seriously metric ship tons of things that are similar to my requirement on eBay, but I really have no idea of which ones are any good, as the price seems to vary widely. I've heard the "Hanna" brand bandied about here a bit, but again, price varies across models that seem similar.

Happy to drop 2-3 hundred on the pair, if need be. I figure that's what I've saved by taking a punt on Handy Imports stock pots anyway.

Cheers,

FB
 
If you want genuine pH accuracy/resolution to the hundredths of points you're going to pay big and pay hard. I finally settled for genuine accuracy to the tenths of a point. All the advice I received was that tenths is fine for our purposes.
 
Oh yeah, Hanna, Sera Instruments and Milwaukee Instruments all have a good reputation and have models in your stated price range. .
 
Get yourself some decent homebrewers pH strips, they last a long time and don't need calibrating. I've got some that go from 4.6 to 6.2 and since I've had then I don't use my pH meter anymore.
 
Cheers Tex, that looks the goods. Will do some more research on that one.
Sparky, I got my strips from Craftbrewer, and borrowed some colorpHast ones from work. They work ok, although I always have nagging doubts in my mind about them.
 
Colourphast strips are consistently 0.3ph above the genuine reading. Any idea on where to get colorphast strips? Can't find them anywhere
 
I found all the local ones were not the best ranges for wort. The ones I got are here on ebay Cheaper than the sponsors and are an excellent wort range, being 4.6 to 6.2. If you get a few mates who want some the post becomes even cheaper.
 
Also FB, what do you want the thermometer for, as a calibration or standard use one? The use one should be part of the system, ie a stc or pid. The calibration one I use is just an alcohol filled brewers one from ebay.
 
Mostly for calibrating the PID's, but I also so I can return the non calibratable kitchen digital probe back to where it belongs, doing what it was designed for, checking the insides of dead animals.
I've had a few funny things going on with my brews in the past couple of months, so I really would like to be able to make sure all the temps and pH values are as good as they can be. They're probably not the issue, but I'll feel a lot better if I can eliminate them from my enquiries.
 
For a thermometer, I don't think you can go past a ThermaPen

A bit on the pricey side, but they read quickly and accurately, and come with a calibration certificate. Great for calibrating temperature controllers and cooking. I love mine.
 
QldKev said:
I found all the local ones were not the best ranges for wort. The ones I got are here on ebay Cheaper than the sponsors and are an excellent wort range, being 4.6 to 6.2. If you get a few mates who want some the post becomes even cheaper.
Nice

Can see a bulk buy starting up on these to reduce the postage cost.
 

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