I am sorry for not being fluent in English. It is always hard to write in foreign language, hopefully text is still understandable.
Few remarks on Your comments:
Of course operator skills and camera accessories (lenses etc) have significant effect. We tried to make some difference between...
Hi all,
We made some research of using infrared in Finnish utilities.
Based for results and some assumptions, we made some monte carlo simulation and analysis of results whether to buy lowcost imager, high-end imager or use service.
If You are interested on this subject, it is available at...
Good thread!
Mr. Bruce Anderson: You have mentioned this Hartford Steam Boiler white paper also before. Is it available somewhere?
Thank You in advance!
Yours,
Mikko Pieskä
Hi Bruce
Thank You for Your very valuable answer. I actually had noticed the fact that even with pretty basic IRinstruments (You don´t have to buy the hi-end camera with all possible features), You can get good results especially on loose connections with unexpensive models too, buth percentage...
Hi all,
I took some thermal imagers and found out that analyses-program which i have is not very good.
I can only add one spot-temperature to the picture and
i can not add any box/area or any other tools to picture (which can be found from the camera).
Beside the fact, that this lack of...
Has anyone any experience on getting IR images through
hot gas (exhaust)? Is it possible?
Target is cooling system pipes and they should be monitored through exhaust system of big boiling kettle.
I think that it is not possible to get any pictures with any
information of condition of cooling...
Thank You, hotspot, for information provided. This was what I was asking for.
Bearings were only a example, I was trying to get information from every area whereas thermography is used. I was thinking if there would be any use for a database, whereas would be a pictures with adequate...
Thank You Roy for the fast answer. I however think, that we didn´t quite understood eachother?
I have seen these example images, which can be easily found from the various websites. Usually these pictures are in pairs with a digital image, IR image of broken equipment/equipment with "hot spots"...
Is there any database of infrared pictures?
If there is, are they free or how big is the fee? How many pictures/pieces of equipment they are containing?
I was just thinking that maybe there could be kind of a service, whereas is a lot of infrared pictures from different
equipment. There are...