Check it out.....bye bye Celsius

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TiredRooster

TiredRooster

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Today has been a complete and total frog strangler. I have been cooped up in the house all day because of the rain. But never to be unproductive....check out what I did this afternoon. I'm sorry, but Celsius means absolutely nothing to me. And I don't care to have to convert to Fahrenheit. We didn't learn the metric system when I was in school other than it was invented by some Frenchmen and is used in foreign countries. 

Anyway.....now I have a thermometer in my Yong Heng that reads in a way that is familiar and comfortable to me. I like it!! 



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Thanks......TR






 
It's really simple. I started looking for a Fahrenheit thermometer and found one on Amazon. It was like $10-12 or something and so ordered it. Then just took the cover off the Yong Heng and swapped the Metric one out. I wasn't so sure that it would be an exact replacement....but it was. Well......I had to do a very small amount of filing on the sides of the new display so that it would pop into the cut out of the compressor case properly. You have to remember that it's Chinese......so some times you have to improve on things just a bit. Any way I took a couple of pics.....



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There ya go........
 
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I did that to one of mine also because the original gauge died. I had to drill out the hole a bit cuz the sensor did not fit. Actually had to drill out teh old sensor too as it was stuck in there good. But in the end I prevailed and had a nice new Fahrenheit gauge.

Thinking it would matter was my mistake? ;^) It really didn't cuz once you have a few conversion points memorized it's not difficult to go back and forth for an approximate temperature. 

So, now I have one that reads in degrees Centigrade and another that does it in Fahrenheit. Just in case I gets confused I printed out a nice conversion chart and stapled it next to my compressors. Now I am good to go with either method of measurement.

Still like you and probly most of us in the US I prefer Fahrenheit as it is what I grew up with and is more precise.
 
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I did that to one of mine also because the original gauge died. I had to drill out the hole a bit cuz the sensor did not fit. Actually had to drill out teh old sensor too as it was stuck in there good. But in the end I prevailed and had a nice new Fahrenheit gauge.

Thinking it would matter was my mistake? ;^) It really didn't cuz once you have a few conversion points memorized it's not difficult to go back and forth for an approximate temperature. 

So, now I have one that reads in degrees Centigrade and another that does it in Fahrenheit. Just in case I gets confused I printed out a nice conversion chart and stapled it next to my compressors. Now I am good to go with either method of measurement.

Still like you and probly most of us in the US I prefer Fahrenheit as it is what I grew up with and is more precise.
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Yes, I also have actually committed to memory the temperature in Centigrade that would be my cut the compressor off point. But nevertheless, I am more comfortable with the Fahrenheit scale and thought it would be a simple and nice touch to the YH. One that just tailors the machine more to my preferences. My brain is just hard wired to the reading and under standing of the standard system...........I'm sure many can relate.
 
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TiredRooster

I used Velcro to remote set mine, was impossible to read otherwise. Mine came uninstalled, but after feeding wire under metal cover and snapping in, found out from Bio, that 357 batteries were much better than the LR44s, I'd used. Got some 357s, took cover off, as you did, then remote mounted. Celsius will have to do for now as I decided to put "C to F" replacement money towards a double sided-tape mounted, wire-free, vibration hour meter. (Visible on side over metal label.) WM
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TiredRooster,

Paid $21.95, to run-leader, on eBay, June 22, 2021. Wireless, sticks on with double-sided tape and vibration activated. It stays blank until machine runs, then displays total hours in 0.1 resolution, returns to blank. Currently, at .09 hrs. almost time for initial break-in oil change. The cheaper ones use screw mounting and wire connections, this is much easier. No battery required with 3-year normal service life. This product was recommended by another member and was a good call. WM
 
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