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Great deal on Flir One thermal imaging camera for Android
This is a great deal – about $140 off the usual price. This is a wonderful little gadget that adds thermal imaging to your phone, and even allows you to take snapshots or videos to share. The deal even includes a free adapter to use it on older MicroUSB devices.
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Cool. Thanks for the heads up.
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Do you have a video showing how it works and how accurate it is?
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I’ve actually searched YouTube for video reviews that also look into the accuracy, but most only seem to focus on its features and how “cool” it is (and it really is).
From my experience, Flir products are accurate enough for things like finding hot spots, and I know that a lot of home inspectors and energy auditors carry them and trust them enough to use. That said, I’m not confident that they can be used for things like temperature calibrations or other jobs that really need a probe and ice calibration before using.
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@techtownmayor pretty much summed it up.
My shop has an earlier rendition of that device for use with our iPhones. I use it during PMs to identify iffy electrical connections within a circuit under a load. It easily and quite handily pinpoints hot spots at connections to (or within) circuit breakers, fuses, switches.
The FLIR is like having a crystal ball telling me that equipment failure from a poor connection is imminent and an otherwise INVISIBLE problem soon needs to be addressed.
We ALL know the equipment tends to break down at the WORST POSSIBLE TIME (under its heaviest use). The FLIR can be a very valuable tool in preventing that.
NOW…regarding the COOL factor. My OWN initial amazement of the FLIR’s thermal sensitivity was from a WATCH THIS moment involving a desk…and my hand:
I kept the FLIR camera pointed at a desktop. I placed my hand in one spot on that desk and counted to five at a normal cadence. I removed my hand. The camera clearly and distinctly showed a lingering “thermal shadow” left behind on the desktop where my hand once was. That “shadow” slowly faded as that trail of heat eventually dissipated.
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Back a few years when FLIR was about $30,000 my cousin worked for a company that did preventive imagining for corporate manufacturing operations. There insurance companies mandated it annually. Some of the videos of the jobs he did were amazing on switchgear and disconnects. It’s built into the Cat S60 smartphone. It not only works good for electrical, but and gearcase or bearing.
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My recent mugshot on FLIR.
Sorry….
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Love it. This is what this kind of tech was developed for!
First thing I did with mine was the exact same thing 👍
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