Fermomenter accuracy

[SCBrewster]

I can probably answer this question myself but assurance from others would be good. I brewed an Oberon clone yesterday and its in my bottling bucket right now. Fermometer is reading around 76-78 degrees not really anything for certain. I have the bucket in one of those storage tubs To help control the temperature. The water in it is 70 degrees and I would imagine it has equilibrated by now. Do these fermometers lose their accuracy after a few uses or do I need to find how to drop this temp soon?

 

[duboman]

You should have already dropped the temp


Mine is usually within a degree. Be sure yours is not in the water or wet, they basically become useless at that point

 

[SCBrewster]

I'm fairly confident that's what happened because it isn't really even the green or yellow like it usually is. Just a faint blue. I think the fermometer is trashed. If my house is 70 and the water the bucket is sitting in is 70. Even if you add 5 degrees to that it still should be fine I think... But I've been wrong before haha