[Stoves] Thermal cameras for monitoring heat loss.

[joe breskin]

http://support.fluke.com/raytek-sales/Download/Asset/9250284_ENG_A_W.PDF

http://support.fluke.com/raytek-sales/download/asset/mt_56499_gen_reve.pdf

http://www.tooldiscounter.com/ItemDisplay.cfm?lookup=RAYMT4&source=froogle&kw=RAYMT4&gclid=CjwKEAiAova1BRDS15OXjcug_FMSJACWNAKZZTo8IXxDbKG8btOWPMFYwvn08EwAYFUiHpvPIq98pRoCbQvw_wcB

On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 5:29 AM, Cookswell Jikos <cookswelljikos at gmail.com>
wrote:

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