The Practicality of Thermal Imaging

Here’s one of a battery...This was after the battery had been sitting out of the vehicle l for over an hour.

Cool Stuff! I will need to take my imager out tomorrow and take some pictures.

Good start here. One of the things I always keep in mind is that in a simplistic way, these cameras are multi point infrared guns. The same things that can give inaccurate results with those temp guns can skew what the camera records. Reflective surfaces bounce radiated heat. Black or flat colors will tend to be more accurate readings. To make the point, here is a "selfie" taken in front of a

Scott Brown, I told you I had a good profile picture to upload......... I think my hazel eyes really pop in this picture......

I produced a video on this very topic back in August. Hope it helps! youtu​.​be/naPg8nGnn0g

Here is one I took after I fixed a seat heater in a Mercedes a while back. Fun topic Mario Chris

Great topic Mario! I love my thermal imager. Here are a couple shots of a bad hybrid battery in a Gen2 Prius. I captured these by tearing the interior out, taking the vehicle on a "hard" test drive and then removing the battery cover. This is usually not necessary as the Toyotas typically will set a code for the failed battery module. As far as emmisivity, it's super important to get the

Thermal imaging made quick work of finding out which circuit was staying awake and draining the battery.

Here is an Espar engine heater with a failed water pump. The unit would fire up and overheat due to lack of flow. The other one was from a Peterbilt that would need to be boosted every day. It would be left to run for a couple of hours. Then the connections and batteries would be tested. Everything checked out fine. I finally get it, and it was the same story. Clean connections, good voltage

here is a bat. pic bad cells and on some i can see the water level. and with heater blower connectors under dash power and grounds separate connectors it wood work intermittent.

Here's a noisy serpentine belt idler pulley, and what an Aim-9 Sidewinder sees. Ward

Rear window defogger Heated side view mirror Brake rotor Good Brake rotor Bad Battery post resistance

Here is a thermal image from a car with a restricted heater core. And here's the image after the core was back flushed. Here is a faulty circuit breaker used for an electric radiator fan. The fan ran noticeably slower than the other one mounted next to it that had it's own circuit breaker. Here you can see the heat generated by a drum brake system. You can even see that the larger trailing