mini-Ligno DX Moisture Meter - Wood Moisture Meter for Wood, Bamboo, Laminates, Gypsum, Drywall & Different Wall Boards - Humidity Tester for Woodworking, Flooring, Restoration Projects

if you are doing a hardwood floor install, you need one of these. Not the $22 meters, but this, or a similar quality and accuracy alternatives. The LL warehouse people use this exact same meter to check the moisture content of their products.Difference between this ( DX mini) and the DX/C is thsat the dx/c has socket to plug in external probes, so it is more money. The mini-ligno DX/M is a less accurate versionSuper simple to use. (The pins are tempered steel and sharp. This is one differentiator between this, and the cheapo meters). The included correction settings table has 40+ different wood selections. The meter actually has 40+ settings, unlike the cheapo meters which usually only have a few actual settings on the meter, 4-8.I get a measurement each time, every time I use it, and the multiple measurements tend to agree.With a cheap meter, I do not always get a measurement, presumably because I am unble to press the pins deep enough into the wood. The measurements i do get vary quite a bit.The only frustration is that some brazilian wood flooring species are missing from the correction table ( E.g.: Tamboril : Enterolobium contortisiliquum)I called the Lignomat support line, and they told me to use the Teak settings. Not sure I believe them.,The rep I talked to offered to look it up on the internet, which did not give me a lot of confidence.Teak (Tektonia Grandis) has much less Janka hardness, is in a different botanical family, and half the specific gravity. The only commonality I see that Tamboril is sometimes called Golden Teak, which is coincidental IMO.It is impossible to find a "similar" wood species, where you do not know what exactly needs to be similar. Is it specific gravity? Is it chemical properties? Geography?