Hot water temp guage?

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Hi,

Not even sure if this is a thing so sorry if a waste of time!

I have viridian solar thermal which works pretty well and gives me hot water most of the year, but over winter can be a bit hit & miss dependent on the skies.

While I can set the temp the solar will heat to, and I can obv. do that on the boiler too, to get max savings I only like to put the boiler on manually when I need to - but its hard to know how much hot water we have sometimes - and if I set a timer on the boiler, am I giving it enough time (i.e. 2 hours a night) or not to top up the water temp - I'd love to have something that could show me the temp of the water in the tank - either wirelessly, or going to the tank is not an issue as its in a cupboard at the top of the stairs.

Viridian did offer a controller that showed the hot water temp but have sadly stopped selling it when I enquired and I'm wondering if there are other options?

Tried googling but my google skills are not great when I don't know much about the subject.
 
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Depending on the type of hot water cylinder that you have, you could possibly attach a strap on thermostat with a digital display. ESI make one, and it's less than £15 from here.

Alternatively, a simple, cheap, strap on thermostat could be wired to an indicator light so show when a certain temperature was reached. OK, it wouldn't give you a physical temperature reading, but you would get an indication that a temperature had been exceeded. If you needed to be more accurate, you could fit two thermostats with a 10 degree difference between them that would narrow it down a bit further.
 
Thanks for the advice. A general indication of temperature will be fine so I'll give those a go.
 

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