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Originally Posted by California98Civic
I imagine taking readings of two specific points on the dash every 3 or 5 minutes to see how temperature changes over time. I wonder about heat being transmitted across the dashboard however, so that my readings are confounded. Probably that would happen slowly though, with minimal effect. Thoughts?
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infrared thermometer. I have one that I bought years ago and it has worked, and still works, very well. The absolute accuracy is not all that great, but it's usually within 2 or 3 degrees F. The relative accuracy, where you want to know if one place is warmer than another, is better. I see that Home Depot has them for as little as $30.00:
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Klein-To...-IR1/313516785.
Dashboards are plastic, which is a poor conductor of heat, so heat conduction from the hot side will be slow.