Where do you Check the Temp at on your Grow?

I installed a new 1000w, and it shot my temps way up to the mid 80s, but only while in the direct light. The actual air temp is in the mid 70s. If I cover the thermometer it registers 70s, uncovered it is in the 80s. It got me thinking, just where does everyone check their temps?

i have an electric thermometer with a probe on a long wire. i drape the wire over a screw that sticks out of my hood so that the probe tip dangles over the canopy. it hovers about an inch above the actual canopy. i measure it here because it's the hottest part of the grow area that the plants actually touch.

i used to veg in this closet and i had a huge bushy flat canopy and i would just toss the probe over the canopy.

what's the difference between a rectal, and oral thermometer?
the taste

level with canopy...hung by a string, or just about anything you can think of. peace

2x thermometer one hanging at the tops and one about mid range above the intake air hole... it gets cold in michigan but thats just me i like to see it