[Greenbuilding] Greenbuilding Digest, Vol 7, Issue 2

[Ross Elliott]

Low-e glass, as the name suggests, has a lower emissivity than regular glass. With an IR camera you can clearly see your thermal reflection, so in many cases with a non-contact  thermometer you're taking the temperature of your own forehead. A strip of matte black electrical tape provides a more accurate measurement.


Ross Elliott
Homesol Building Solutions

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> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 09:15:27 -0500
> From: John Straube <jfstraube at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] infrared thermometer
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> Emissivity of glass is about 0.84, which is not far off a unit with a default of 0.90, like within a degree or two.
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> On 2011-03-02, at 9:11 AM, Sacie Lambertson wrote:
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