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I bought two of these thermometers to modify my Char-Griller Smokin' Pro. Anyone who's used that particular smoker will tell you that it has very uneven heating without any modification, and the single centrally-mounted thermometer is just about worthless for smoking in the unit. A popular modification of the smoker is to mount two of these to the hood of the grill at grate level one on the left and one on the right. This will tell you the temperature at the grate on both sides of the grill.
I double-checked the thermometers with a probe thermometer poked into the chamber around grate level and they all matched up quite nicely...and were completely different from the piece of junk thermometer that came with the grill. Cooked a 16 pound beef brisket on the grill after installing these and it came out perfectly. Had a much harder time doing that without proper thermometers.
These thermometers are very large. In my case that's a good thing a big dial is easy to read at a distance, which means less baby-sitting the smoker. I was using the thermometers at night but we had lights rigged up so I can't vouch for how well the glow-in-the-dark dial works.
Edit: After about 8 months of these being installed one of the two has fogged up pretty severely (the other is still free of moisture). It doesn't appear to be effecting the performance of the thermometer and I can still read it but it's kind of annoying.
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Dial assembly broke off base while removing from packaging (and I didn't just tear it out of the package, I cut the package open with scissors). There is no fastener between the dial and the base - the dial is simply pressed on the base and requires almost zero effort to remove. So even if you have a thermometer which is currently in one piece, any slight bump or jar could knock the head off. Once off, the needle hangs up on the dial as this is the only thing keeping the two pieces from completely separating. If you're lucky, the shaft/needle assembly won't be permanently bent or kinked. Oh, and there is no keyway between the base and dial. So you would have to boil the thermometer and then rotate the dial to 212 and repeat this every time if falls apart. Epic Fail. I am extremely dissatisfied.
