I bought the ryobi phone worx one that uses your phone or tablet. I tested it out on a fresh split piece of ash from the large limb I sawed down at my house. It read 19.6% already.
Cool!! WaddleRemodel has one that sounds similar. Tell us more as you experiment more. Have you tested all your house hold items yet like a lot of us do we get one?
You plug the headphone adapter into your phone, and you use the app. The phone screen is the display, and you can track samples over time. It datalogs for you. Or you can simply use it as a simple plug it in and test.
Stick in some wood furniture in the house to see if it is running true, it doesn't sound like it is if it is reading that low on fresh cut wood....
$30 bucks at Home Dump?! That's cwazy, Horkn! I thought the first pic you put up was missing a piece of test specimen- then I read what you wrote..... Eric VW
I don't know how tough and durable they might be, I left my general tools meter out on the wood stack and it got rained on and it still works fine, but with something like that that would probably never happen. Maybe next will just be able to plug one into the side of our head
Remember, it's ash. It's very dry even green. I tested a super dry piece of wood that's been in stacks for ~5 years, it was 8.6%. A small cheap wood step stool that I use as a drink table measured 10.3%. That stool is always getting wet from drink condensation, and my Brittany (dog) licks it all the time too. I have no idea why she does, but she does. I think it's about right. I know backwoods savage has mentioned that fresh cut ash is in the low 20%, and I got it before it sapped up.
Yowser, I was hopin you meant that! Now, really, when I got my Amazonian cheapo recently, I accidentally found out how sharp them points are- and not in either of my heads(I've been known to weigh my wood on the bathroom scale- always gets a double take from my wife), sunk those two points right in my middle finga- screen read "Er"
