[63391] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cheap temperature sensors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Sat Oct 4 01:37:58 2003
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 22:34:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
To: Robert Boyle <robert@tellurian.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20030922235745.03abddb0@mail1.tellurian.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> From time to time this thread pops up. I found something which looked
> interesting and the price was right. I bought one and WOW! It is VERY
> impressive stuff for any price especially considering how cheap it was. I
> purchased 10 individual temperature sensors and two temp/humidity sensors,
> and the SNMP Ethernet module. From unpacking the box to installing the
> eight sensors in the inlet and outlet ducting of our four A/C units, two
> more to the inside of two server racks and yet two more to the UPS and
> general rack areas for ambient temp/humidity monitoring to setting up MRTG
> graphing and SNMP traps total time was under 4 hours! Very nice stuff. It
> works out of the box with minimal setup and no fabrication, or
> development/programming needed. All of this for $445.00 delivered!
Try $130. These are what Citylink uses, and we're installing now.
http://www.digitemp.com/dt1a-isp.shtml
-Bill