Goat Toy/Tool Day 26
16Toy? Tool? I dunno, you tell me. The FLIR One thermal camera is both a lot of fun, and very useful. Call it infrared, IR, thermal, or Predator vision, you know what it is.
This is the engine in my truck. Black & purple are cold, yellow & white are hot. It’s easy to see the exhaust manifold is the hottest part, but the hoses and wires are much cooler.
FLIR makes all sorts of stuff, some of really expensive. These are the low end models that plug into phones. The 2nd gen FLIR One I’ve got was about $250, so it’s still not cheap. It has two cameras, as you can see. One is VGA resolution (640 × 480) visible light, the second is pretty low-res IR (160x120). It combines the two to make a more detailed image overlaid with the thermal picture.
The current one is called the 3rd gen, there’s a base model for $200, and a Pro model for $400.
It must be a toy, this is my warm-blooded nephew with his cold-blooded python.
No, it’s a tool, this is industrial piping with several inches of insulation. It’s still easy to tell which are the hot and cold pipes.
Just fooling around with the toy. This is the chair I was sitting in.
The really bright spot on the desk is my laptop.
This is my dad, and you can see the parallax effect of the two cameras pretty clearly on his glasses. The registration of the two is clearly off. The alignment point of the two lenses is a compromise, and I’m too close in this image.
Here’s a fun review:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/08/flir-one-round-two-the-thermal-imaging-camera-drops-100-gets-a-new-shape/
“stalk around the house making clicky noises and whispering “turn around.””
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In the FLIR camera app on the phone, you can swipe back & forth between the combined image, and the visible light image only. I haven’t figured out how to do this outside of the app, or if it’s even possible. They are saved as jpgs.
You can also turn the spot thermometer on & off, and change the colors used.
@blaineg Perhaps @Thumperchick or someone else who is feeling kind can be persuaded to put the correct date on this… Unless you’re time traveling, of course.
You’ve already done a post for Day 25; this one should be changed to 26.
How do I do that /buy thing?
@G1 Throw $200 at Amazon, or someone else.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071NZRJD6/
That’s for the 3rd gen standard model, the Pro with higher resolution is $300.
I’ve been contemplating a thermal camera for a while. Though I know I’d be horrified to see where all the warm air is escaping my house.
@cinoclav Yes, but then you know what to work on.
I found out last year that our very old house doesn’t have poor insulation. It has zero insulation in the walls.
@blaineg There’s not much in these walls either and it’s only 51 years old. Being that there’s no basement and it’s on a slab, the first level runs about 8° cooler than the second.