home made temperature sensor

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Rigz

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Iv been really curious about to know what kind of cylinder head Temps iv been getting especially with the new head so I rigged up this temperature sensor from a computer with a small 12 volt battery from a garage door opener and jammed the sensor between the head and spark plug. The plug actually holds it on when I screw it in. (Just heppened to work like that luckily)
I know the sensor is accurate and reads from -30 all the way to 800 celcious so I'm gonna go see. It seems that 300 degrees F is about where most people say is getting to high which is about 149 C. So we'll see where it's at
 

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Rigz

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Mar 1, 2018
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Well.... bran new battery lasted about 15 mins and died so I wasn't able to really test it but when the motor was fully warmed up I got a reading of 94C (200F) which seems accurate to what iv read about these emgines.
Max temp I saw was 126C (259F) after a WOT run then the battery died. I'm sure it got a little hotter bit couldn't tell. The A23 battery I used is rated at about 55mah and the sensor uses about 50mah max so I was thinking it might last 45 mins to an hour most but no... so I'll need to find a better battery or getting g one of those 12 volt stator so it will only run when the bike is running but that's ok. Iv heard many bad things about those 12 volt stator tho