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Originally Posted by MN Renovator
I'm interested in the data myself but am really unsure of how to do it. I don't have the equipment and am unsure what I would need and if it involves Arduino...
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You can get perfectly good data the old fashioned way with cheap thermometers.
I went to a store that had cheap glass column thermometers, and I got one for each room and one for outside front and one outside back...
Then I put them all in the same room and let them stabilize for 10 minutes or so, and I carefully adjusted the columns up and down (don't touch the bulb with your finger or it will heat it up), so they all read the same, and I put a drop of super glue on the little metal band that holds the glass column. I call this process "calibrating the thermometers'.
Then I put a thermometer in each room, at the same level... eye level is convenient.
I also put one outside in the front of the house, positioned so that it would not have direct sun on it... ditto in the back yard.
Then read about once per hour and write the time & temperature data down.
Not so tough, really.
-AC