Let's see what we got here, the Milwaukee 12:1 infrared temperature gun. You know you're going to take your temperature from a distance. It is impact rate. It feels the same 12 volt battery or the m12 battery.

That goes in a lot of their other tools. Impact resistant from 6 feet, so a 6 foot drop. It's impact resistance, you're not going to break it. If you fall that your tool bag, while you're carrying it or anything like that, there's some limitations to an infrared gun which we'll go over as we test it.

Go ahead, pull that out see how that works, force we're going to take this. It's pretty cool if it's smaller than some. It's that same standard battery, if you already have it totally worth it, it's see I'll. Take this impact-resistant up to 6 feet of drop.

It's not going to break infrared thermometer in our business. It usually has a little bit of a new bad reputation. Inspectors love them all that love it. You run into a senior tech, coil, so you're not trash.

You never want to use that and kind of show. You why that is here and then also, though explain. Why just is what it is. You have to know what the tool is.

The main thing that people talk badly about it with is that they it's not accurate, especially, and the thing is the 12 to 1. What is the 12 to 1 mean with the 12 to 1 means? Is that for every 12 feet you get away that little infrared dot expands one foot for every 12, you backup, when you're really close to something it's pretty accurate and it can interact with reflective surfaces. It's only going to be accurate on a totally matte surface, where you're right against it. It's fairly accurate.

I kind of try to demonstrate that I'm going to shoe the temperature of this length behind me. I put a bead probe on that beforehand. It's about 142, depending 140, 146 generally about 142, depending where, on the cover, you put it sort of flip this around, go over that and show you that we'll get right up on this first off so right here, we're real close, you know, or maybe a foot Away and so you're talking about a one inch sample size on it, you'll hit that and, like I say it's reading, pretty close any inconsistency there is going to be. The light has a little bit of reflectiveness to it.

So that's going to play with a little bit, but as we back here so I'll back up, you know or maybe five feet away. You hit it the temperatures starting to drop that temperatures dropping because you're actually reading the whole area around you're, starting to read some of that ceiling on it. You get even further away starts to continue to drop, continue to drop back up all the way across the room which sometimes you can imagine doing if you're shooting a grill or a light, and it's real tall, vaulted ceiling put that light right on it and you're. Only reading about 109, so obviously it's not as you get further away.

It gets inaccurate and you can get that little bit of inaccuracy, because the surfaces you're checking usually are not going to be perfectly matte. It's like it's going to be an absorptive service for you to service, usually checking something. That's painted, you're checking a grill if you're checking something that's shiny, real and accurate, so that's kind of the limitations that they give it. That reputation will have the old school guys.

Tell you Oh a never want to buy. Okay, so rubber meets the road on this. The m12 infrared thermometer. Is it worth it? You know just depends.

You carry all the Milwaukee product. You have the m12 battery, then sure it's worth it. You swap your battery over. You have it right there, your recharging it if you're wanting it to be an actual test piece of equipment.

No, no infrared thermometer is going to do that. What it's good for is what I would call inspection rated so you're coming through just shooting grills. Okay, I want to see if these reels are all roughly the same temperature. You know I want to see you're walking through a Rack Room.

I want to just hit each compressor, as I walk through roughly the same distance yep. It's probably good enough for that. It's not a diagnostic tool, like I say it's an inspection tool. We all know you finish.

The service call you're just on you're all finished up, you're walking out of the house as you're walking out somebody standing there their hand in the air, there's no cold air. Coming out, this isn't cold at all. So now you have to get your ladder off your truck. Carry it in set it up.

Put your probe they're having an infrared thermometer is totally worth in that case, it's in your tool, bag. You put it out notes that you actually have 60-degree air here, you shoot down the return grill. What do you have here? You have that, like I say you just want to be careful with it, because you know like with that light, as you're backing away. You aren't reading it honestly and so the same thing is happening with the grill you're reading cold.

If you have a real hot attic, but it's not well insulated. That ceiling can be 120 degrees, and so it can give you this false treat. If you were using it diagnostically to say it's not working efficiently. You know it's actually some guys use it to take a split, don't use it to take a split.

It's not doesn't replace the proper tool to do that, but it's totally worth having is going to save you a lot of time when you're just real, quick trying to demonstrate hey look. This is cooling, that's cooling which grills go. You know you're trying to test a couple of houses, a couple of zones which grills go to which, when one's running ones not totally useful to have for that, so you are going to move a ladder to take so yeah. I like it.