[Stoves] Thermal cameras for monitoring heat loss.

[Cookswell Jikos]

Hi Joe and David,

Thanks very much for your responses, I will have a look at the links and
let you know if I have ny more questions.

Do you think any of these options would be good for at least 'looking' at
ceramic pottery and/or traditional charcoal making kilns to patch up leaks
as well?

Best

Teddy



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On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 9:00 PM, joe breskin <joe.breskin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Last year we used both a seek thermal on an iPhone and an expensive
> FLIR camera to collect images in and on the surface of a soil-heated
> polyfilm greenhouse and found both units to be useful, though
> ultimately we returned the seek thermal device to the vendor, as it
> was not quite useful enough. The resolution is adequate for what we
> were doing, but just as with non-contact infrared thermometers the
> surface emissivity issues often overwhelm and mask the temperature
> issues of interest, and beyond the most obvious of results the thermal
> images definitely require skill to interpret.
>
> I ended up developing a simple emmisivity "target" and using it to
> calibrate a very low cost and reliable Raytech thermometer against the
> FLIR camera. In the range of temps that mattered in the greenhouse,
> the two devices tracked within a degree or two F.
>
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 9:32 AM, David Meed <david at meed.ca> wrote:
> > on Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 1:29 PM, David Meed <david at meed.ca> wrote:
> >> Another entry appears to be Seek Thermal as low as $249
> >> http://www.thermal.com/thermal-cameras/
> >> http://www.cnet.com/products/seek-thermal-camera/
> >
> > They also mention a -40F to +625F range - so depending on what part of
> > a stove you are looking at, it might not do what you want.
> >
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