Digital Inclinometer w magnets? accurate w a metal camera?

[Frank Petronio]

http://store.mannyswoodworkersplace.com/6820001.html

These sorts of gadgets look ideal for measuring tilt angles... accurate to 1/10 degree and all that. But would the magnets in their base mess up when used with a metal camera that doesn't have everything in a smooth single plane? (Like a saw blade, which they are intended to be used with.)

[Walter Calahan]

A heck of a lot cheaper: http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?actio...06M&lpage=none

Ace hardware sells them without magnets inside. That's the type I use, but didn't find a picture to post for you. You should have to spend more than 10 bucks.

[Walter Calahan]

http://www.acehardware.com/product/i...le+finder&sr=1

[Frank Petronio]

Ah but I need my $@$%#& reading glasses for the old dial ones!!! I already have one like that but a digital is easier to read even for my newly old-man eyes. I could care less about it being good to 1/10 of a degree....

Now the real truth comes out...

[C. D. Keth]

You could just use a protractor and a piece of string with a weight.

Or for those of you with an iPhone, my camera assistant friend has a pretty cool app for it that works as a compass, level, and inclinometer. I played with it a bit and it seems very accurate and sensitive.

[Eric James]

Frank - don't you have an iPhone?

This app. is only 99c.

http://app-store.appspot.com/?url=vi..._1-Lockup_r2c2

[Frank Petronio]

dang!

if only Verizon didn't have a vice grip on my spheres....

[jwaddison]

The clinometers I'm familiar with all work using a lead weight on aluminium, both non-magnetic. The magnet part is not part of the actual clinometer workings.

[GPS]

http://store.mannyswoodworkersplace.com/6820001.html

These sorts of gadgets look ideal for measuring tilt angles... accurate to 1/10 degree and all that. But would the magnets in their base mess up when used with a metal camera that doesn't have everything in a smooth single plane? (Like a saw blade, which they are intended to be used with.)

Frank,
I don't think that "the magnets in their base" have any other function than having the possibility of attaching the thing to a metal base. The sensor itself is probably not based on magnetism. Otherwise the device would not work properly most of the time

[David A. Goldfarb]

I think GPS is right. The magnets are only holding the thing on the saw blade.