mr. bergman gotta a question for you

[badboyheel]

i recently purchased a testo 605 h2 from you and the battery door has a chip in, caused by me. i was wondering how i can get a new door for it. also if my sensor goes bad on the h2 what do i have to do to get it replaced, (think my helper took temp of furnace with it. sorry to bother you, but i emailed testo and haven't received a response from them. thank you in advance

[jim bergmann]

Mr. Bergmann is my dad who owns TruTech tools, I am the Jim Bergmann who is a Technical Specialist for Testo. You bought the 605-h2 from him. In a nutshell the 605-h2 is a throw away. If the Rh sensor goes bad you just replace the instrument. In our higher end products the RH sensor is replaceable, but they do not fail often, and the furnace temp would normally melt the plastic long before the sensor would be damaged.

I do not think we have the doors in stock, I can see if we have a returned instrument I could pull one from, but we do not get many back. I will contact service in the morning.

[badboyheel]

thank you i appreciate it!

[mark beiser]

I do not think we have the doors in stock, I can see if we have a returned instrument I could pull one from, but we do not get many back. I will contact service in the morning.

From my experience with the new style H2 so far, replacement battery doors may become an in demand item, lol.

After my 2nd desperate search for the battery door, through loose fill insulation in attics, I got smart and secured the door with tape.
That battery door is a poor design for a field use instrument IMO. :(
That and the power switch not being recessed, or otherwise protected so the instrument isn't accidentally turned on while in my tool bag, are my only 2 gripes about it.

Well, there is one other thing. The old style H2 could be positioned so it sat on a flat surface with the probe sticking straight up, and the display visible. It was handy because I could set it on the slab next to a condenser, and the probe tip was up high enough that it was in the condenser entering air, and far enough away from the slab that it wasn't noticeably affected by radiant heat from the slab.
Can't do that with the new style one, can only get about a 45º angle, with the display upside down. :(

I'm a big fan of the new one being powered by 3 AAA batteries, which I have in abundance, instead of the wimpy little short lived wafer battery the old style uses.:)
Just have to tape the battery door on...:rolleyes:

[badboyheel]

i've also taped my battery door shut. love the tool! my only gripe is that the door comes off way too easy.

[ptemko]

I have the old style H2 and went to E-Bay and for $6 shipping included I got 20 of the CR2032 batteries. That will last me.:D

[itsiceman]

Mark How do you keep yours in your tool bag?

The door falls off my 905-T2 also only if it takes a little shot ;)
Never just fell off out of the blue.

I've been trying to think of something like a holster for my 905-T2 out of PVC

Now that I have a 605-H2 I was thinking I could use another one of those corks as a holder stuck in a tube of some kind to protect it better in the tool bag.