Pyro gauge question

[welpro222]

I recently picked up a banks turbo kit, but I only got the Pyro probe and wires no gauge. Will any brand pyro gauge work with these probes?

 

[armytruck63]

Most likely the pyro probe is a Type-K thermocouple, so any meter designed for that thermocouple type should work.

You can calibrate the meter by sticking the probe in boiling water, 212 °F.

 

[tim292stro]

Note that not only to you have to get a meter for the correct voltage-scale (determined by the "type" of thermocouple), but you also have to match the wire from the probe to the meter with the same type. Thermocouples work by creating a voltage at the junction of two dissimilar metals, the meter is calibrated to the type and will have what they call a "cold junction" inside the meter where the voltage measurement is made - the cold-junction measurement is compensated for inside the meter. If you use wires made up of a different material than the probe or meter - you are creating more junctions. These will actually cause a temperature-influenced error in the reading on the meter.

Fortunately the industry has thought of this, and there is a vast availability of thermocouple extension wire on the market for all type of TCs.