New to this Gauss, Gauss question

[desperatekid]

Hi, i am new on this gauss meter instrument. What is the difference between milligauss meter and gauss meter? can milligauss meter use to measure magnet??

[Peter Naglitsch]

Not really. Gauss meters need to handle the 100-1500 Gauss range to be useful in pickup work

[salvarsan]

For comparison, the earth's magnetic field is around 500-650 milligauss while pickup magnets often measure at 500-1000 gauss on the surface.

[desperatekid]

I have a milligauss meter, and when I tried to measure the small bar magnet, the value is .5 mT, does it make sense? I thought a magnet should have gauss instead of milli Telsa?

[salvarsan]

1 Tesla = 10,000 Gauss
1 mT = 1 milliTesla = 10 Gauss
0.5 mT = 5 Gauss

Sounds a little weak for a bar magnet.

[desperatekid]

yeah, that's what I thought too. Maybe becoz is a milligauss meter that's y, it won't measure the correct value of a magnet bar? Also is not mT, is uT, sigh any idea? maybe I bought the wrong meter??