I was looking into this gauge and I came across this Info. Is it worth buying? I was think of purchasing-It will not get used for tuning but more if a precausion to unexpected EGT temp changes..

First of all, thank you for your email. This is a very interesting
email that concerns us if it is posted on a public message board. It concerns us deeply because it is incorrect information. Please feel free to post our response in defense of this post.

We are very much aware of temperature compensation and all of our EGT/pyrometers (including Cobalt) DO feature a temperature compensation component on the circuit board that measures ambient temperature and compensates for it. Currently, our max allowable tolerance is 2% full scale, which means at 1600 degrees F our gauge can be no more than +/- (plus
or minus) 32 degrees F and no more than +/- 16 degrees
F at 800 degrees F. However, in our actually testing we found that our meters typically fall way less than 2%. We also tested at many ambient temperatures and it was only in very high ambient conditions such as 180 degrees that we even got close to the 2%.

Thank you again for your email and we hope this clears up any possible doubt you may have had in choosing Auto Meter.

 

Autometer generally uses insulated tip probes. This type of probe is a poor option for any kind of tuning. The insulation around the tip makes for a probe that is very slow to respond to temp changes, relative to an exposed tip probe.

 

I hooked up my egt gauge and its slow, definitely not a tuning tool. It seems to read a few seconds late, @ idle is was showing around 550 and when i revved the car the reading will come about 4 seconds later.
Ether way the probe is mounted after the turbo so in reality i would estimate that 550 is actually more like 900 to 1000 degrees is that correct?

 

I have an AEM and never had any problems with it.
As said above, Autogauge sensors are slow.
It is worth saving up and spending that bit extra

 

The probe makes it slow, not the gauge. You should be able to get an open tip sensor and retro-fit it to your Autometer gauge.

 

http://tscsensors.com/

http://www.3rdbrakeflasher.com/index...roducts_id=185

Everything you need to make your system work like so. Ludwig posted these in a diff thread so i added to favorites.

 

Someone posted a while back that 3rdbrake was taking payment but not filling orders for the converters. I haven't tried to purchase any in a while, but I'd say be cautious when dealing with them.