On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, CSlade777 wrote:
>This is an interesting experiment the amateur can do if he can get hold of
>temperature sensors that can be placed in the brood nest and read from outside
>the hive. On second thoughts a gardener's maximim/ minimum thermometer might
>suffice.
Radio Shack (Tandy) sells a digital indoor/outdoor thermometer for about
$15 (US). The outdoor sensor cable is ~5 feet long. Plenty long enough
to easily go inside a colony. Since the electronics part was intended to
mount indoors, it will have put in a weatherproof box. A small plastic
box (cut comb container?) would do nicely. Mount it on the outside of the
hive with a piece of Velcro and away you go.
bob
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