Looking for an ambient temperature thermometer

[Homer]

Not a medical or over thermometer. Ideally a refrigerator thermometer but I'd be happy with anything small and went down to 0 C. Tried Tesco/lotus, the store directly above it and Index. None of them had any kind of thermometer. Have you seen with your own two eyes thermometers for sale in town? Something smaller than a dinner plate? Thanks.

[Norseman]

I've seen cooking thermometers in Villa Market and ordinary thermometers in the bookshop in old Shopping Mall (former 3rd floor now 2nd floor).
If they also have something suited for fridges I don't know.

[pitsch]

I also tried to find a thermometer for months. Then I found one in a small shop of market village ground floor. Later I saw one in a shop in Pranburi.

[chopsticks]

Sort of thing Home-Pro may stock.

Ask one of their many helpful assistants

[Homer]

>I've seen cooking thermometers in Villa Market

Now they only have oven thermometers.

>and ordinary thermometers in the bookshop in old Shopping Mall (former 3rd floor now 2nd floor).

Nothing resembling a bookshop their now except the place selling stationary and childrens books. No thermometers.

>Sort of thing Home-Pro may stock.

But they don't.

I found two thermometers at a kiosk in the Village Mall, third floor, opposite the hair salon. One was a combo indoor/outdoor and wind speed instrument, the others were digital. Found out that digital thermometeres work in fridges and freezers, I'll go back and see if the manuals are in English and have a minimum operating temperature.

I wonder how people can have a fridge and not a thermometer for it. Over 40 F food spoils too fast, under 38 F and one is wasting electricity.

[VincentD]

If you're a hobbyist like me, the parts for this 'frost alarm' cost next to nothing. Mount the bits in a matchbox stuck on the outside of the fridge and the thermistor inside. A LED could be substituted for the relay.
http://www.zen22142.zen.co.uk/Circuits/ ... coldsw.htm

Or, another cheap way (assuming you have a digital multimeter handy - I have both analog and digital), get the parts for a thermistor and take readings only when you want to
http://sci-toys.com/scitoys/scitoys/com ... meter.html

Or...
Thailand mail order... (May need to click on 'translate this page')
http://travel-gear.tarad.com/product.de ... th_1204346

[chopsticks]

Some useful inks

There's also a small shop at the Grand Night market that sells car accessories / tools / electrical gadgets that may have a digital one.