Thermal Imaging?

Im-a-Ridah · World Chat Champion Joined: 20 Oct 2006 Karma :

Yea should work fine, military use them on tanks, IFVs ect Smile

WishayKillie · World Chat Champion Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Karma :

We use them for maintenance on the switchboards to check for loose connections etc

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WishayKillie · World Chat Champion Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Karma :

Dagon · Borekit Bruiser Joined: 12 Apr 2009 Karma :

Sorry I should clarify that. You're right that they're all thermal imaging systems in that they use thermal emissions and then display an image on a screen

You'll find though the term 'thermal imager' is usually used for the devices used by the military and police (also called FLIR).

They work quite differently to the camera you'd be using for your maintenance. A thermal imager isn't designed to tell you the temperature of something. It's designed to give you a image you can see things and navigate by.

It varys by device but the ones I've used worked by cooling themselves to about -100 internally. They use this a a reference point when checking the temperature of everything thing around and then build a clear image. The cooling is one reason why they are so bulky and expensive.

The cameras you're using don't use any sort of baseline, they just throw a colour on the screen for the strength of the infra red they see. They also tend to have a much shorter range and basically aren't designed to give you an image you can see by - just tell you the temperature of whatever they're pointed at.

iooi · Super Spammer Joined: 14 Jan 2007 Karma :

Just got to remember that it will not pick up stuff like dead animals, pot holes, piles of shit/gravel or other road surface dangers.

All of which are a greater danger to bikers than a person walking or a car parked at the side of the road.

Fact is even driving a car or bike with it installed in bad weather or darkness still won't stop that idiot pulling out of a junction or turning across you.

At the end of the day driving at a speed, so you are unable to stop in the distance you can see in, is reckless.

This is just another device that is fooling drivers into driving faster than they can safely manage.
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