I am an electrician and for the 10 minutes it will take you for peace of mind pop your breaker panel front cover off and gun the breaker screws. They can loosen over time and this will tell you if you have to tighten them. Since you have to tool check the shop and house its a great tool.
"You one...ugly....maddafakah" "Git to tha choppahhh!!!" Does the camera make the "zrowmff" sound when focusing like Predator? If not then then I want my money back. Stay gold.
originally UFO/ET vision. former canadian defense minister, along with other former government personnel, say we got that technology and others from ETs lol
Flir makes one for the iPhone 5. 300 bucks and a bigger display. The camera aperture is a bit smaller and not as ergonomic as the one demoed here. But still good for entry level.
Nice bit of kit eric :-)), could be good for checking partial radiator blockages, thanks for the other temprature scale :-)) celsius never looks very hot to me.
I would carry that around and when one of the kids starts complaining about feeling ill I can whip it out and use Predator vision to check. That sounded way cooler in my head... I'm going to go take a nap now in shame.
Brilliant! 4 years later, here I am reading your comment and also laughing in shame 🤣 The wife's in the other room asking "what's so funny"...I dare not tell her that I'm now the kid's primary physician.
When I was in elementary school, (in the 70's) they taught us the metric system because they said that we would be switching to it. What happened? Does anybody know? I have all of this knowledge that I have been waiting 40 years to use!
Acutecareems USA did it the "american" way, so everybody outside the US laughs about those funny units like inch, foot, yard, Fahrenheit, ounces and all that :/
Acutecareems Yup USA, Liberia, and Myanmar are the only ones who haven't switched... we will probably be forced to switch over by manufacturers as we lose more and more of our political/industrial dominance that we enjoyed since WW2. Super easy to use metric... none of this 12 inches in a ft, 5280ft per mile, argh! I'm going to take a nap and throw a fit in my dreams.
Eric -- you might want to edit your description with current pricing. This has dropped to $325. Thanks for the useful vid -- I just bought one of these, and it really is a useful tool.
Is there any reason why you chose the TG165 as apposed to the TG167 which has a narrower viewing angle. 25 by 38 degrees (TG167) as opposed to 35 by 19 degrees (TG165)?????
What about sensing human temperature? How efficient is it, and upto what distance can we read the temp? Also, can the lasers be turned off? Would be very practical to use this device to detect who might have fever. Can you pease let me know asap Thanks and cheers
It's a strange world. Never had a car in my whole life. Yet here I find some interesting and useful information. Thank you m8. Still a bloody strange world though.
Just watch out for IR reflections. We have a couple MSA units at the FD and it's always fun training with them. Once you are used to them you can literally shut out the lights and walk around like it's daylight.
No, you can only see solid material temperatures with this. To see gasses you need a special $50,000 gas visualizer thermal camera which looks at a much smaller part of the IR band than these cameras and lenses are capable of.
Actually you can see heat leakage because of it's effect on the materials around the leak. If you are looking at the door frame/window frame you can spot the areas where heat is escaping by the change in relative temperature. As you get closer to the leak the temperature of the outer layer of material will rise. So a big leak looks like the images he showed of the vents with the heat on.
Love this, Eric! That is a nice tool and I see many uses for it, plus it would be fun to play with. See if anyone is stalking around your place in the wee hours etc.....
i just bought the tg167 on Amazon. Im wondering if i should have bought the tg165 instead. i think the only difference is the 165 has o wider angle view. any advice? it hasn't showed up yet so i might chech it out and decide if i should exchange it for the tg165
I was thinking about wheel bearings the whole time -- then you mentioned them at the very end. :-) Very often, before you can hear a bad wheel bearing, they'll start to get hotter than normal -- this would be an excellent tool for that. For any bearing, really, as long as you had a normal one to compare it with. Neat tool! A bit out of *my* price-range, but I'm just a DIY guy. A real technician could easily justify the cost, I'm sure.
Not only wheel bearings but break calipers as well. That's actually how I found mine, going on a drive and coming back and feeling around the rim. Pass side was a heck of a lot hotter than the driver side, replaced the caliper and I was good to go! Didn't even take off the wheel to see if that was the problem, but wheel bearings are a bit harder to get to or feel for temp haha.
I found a bad wheel bearing just by using a normal infrared non-contact thermometer. Three bearing caps were ~95-125F after driving for a while, one was 230F.
There is one small but painful detail Eric forgot to mention - you CAN'T measure the temperature of the SHINY METAL. See the part with exhaust. Rusty tube is deadly hot but muffler seems to be cold, but in fact it's just a mirror so you see the ambient not the muffler itself. Keep this in mind also when using cheap IR thermometers. On metals you can easily make a 100 *C or F mistake in + or in -. Take care!
The thing about this camera thats sorta lame is that it doesn't take temperature readings from the actual imaging sensor. It still uses the same laser sensors that a cheap laser thermometer uses. The expensive FLIRs actually take the readings from the image you're seeing. Its far more accurate.
yeah but the "good" FLIR E you need to add a "1" or "2" to the front of the pricetag :D, eevblog did an awesome review on both. The expensive flir also has a "normal" camera for overlay and handles emissivity much better than this one
***** I have a Seek Thermal and although it is a nice price range, the colors are a wash (everything looks warm). The Flir in this video has way better color definition between what's hot and what's not. I might still save up for one of these puppies!
I wonder how well it would work on tires to see if air pressure is correct meaning how well is the tire contacting the ground looking for iver or under I flated tires especially aftermarket rims and tire sizes because the stock tire pressures are no longer vaalid like going from a 205/60-16 to a 235/35-20
How do you define "thermal camera"? Then why are optics used in these budget "thermal sensors"? Why they need germanium lens or zinc selenide lens to "see" like normal visible camera? It doesn't make sense not to call them "thermal camera" since they work by optics and sensors just like a normal visible camera!!!
Snazzy lil toy..but non touch infrared thermometer good enough to diagnose heat issues.for a tenth of the price...spos were all not as lucky as Eric to get 1 for free..:)
Apeacfulguy Resistance in a broken wire makes heat. You know how many broken wires I deal with on a daily basis as a diesel tech? This things a life saver.
Oh but yes it does. Lean mix due to a tight or burnt valve, wheel bearing, overload of amps on a circuit, sticking caliper slide pins or piston, clogged radiator. You name it. This tool is a time saver, which turns into a money maker. I use a thermal image device every day in auto repair, and it has made my job so much faster and easier. This allows me to get more diag and repair out the door, and in turn, my bank account for retirement gets fatter.
I need a thermal imaging equipment that has long range (minimum 100ft). Here in eastern MA, deer is everywhere and they come out at night. I hit one once, hit a coyote once and am tired of replacing the front bumper. Those devils know me by now.
The range listed is not range from camera to heat source. It is actually more like the field of view. I know the units we use will show you a mouse in the grass at well over 100 feet!
Any body who can repackage a packaged item has the ability to be a good mechanic. Thats the test. For a potential apprentice . Hand the apprentice a brand new package that is not blistered packed and tell the fellow take it apart ,call me when you have every thing assembled .. Then upon checking his results . have him or her repackage the the product .. The potential apprentices ability to repackage the product will tell the boss if he has a winner or loser
Predator vision. th-cam.com/video/o3B3sSVys6w/w-d-xo.html
I am an electrician and for the 10 minutes it will take you for peace of mind pop your breaker panel front cover off and gun the breaker screws. They can loosen over time and this will tell you if you have to tighten them. Since you have to tool check the shop and house its a great tool.
"You one...ugly....maddafakah" "Git to tha choppahhh!!!" Does the camera make the "zrowmff" sound when focusing like Predator? If not then then I want my money back. Stay gold.
originally UFO/ET vision. former canadian defense minister, along with other former government personnel, say we got that technology and others from ETs lol
*****
HAH! Probly under the Mulroney administration. Stay gold.
***** stay gold ponyboy
A super handy tool, I ordered something similar to do house hold heat loss studies
This would have been great to have when I was diagnosing a stuck brake pad on my Accord a week ago, my $20 IR thermometer worked just fine though.
Flir makes one for the iPhone 5. 300 bucks and a bigger display. The camera aperture is a bit smaller and not as ergonomic as the one demoed here. But still good for entry level.
Is it possible to capture images where the color scale also appears in them?
Can you see the spark plug wires fire?
can use it to track water pipe inside wall?
Nice bit of kit eric :-)), could be good for checking partial radiator blockages, thanks for the other temprature scale :-)) celsius never looks very hot to me.
Another possible dual function of this tool would be to find air leaks in your house perhaps? Ie losing heat
I would carry that around and when one of the kids starts complaining about feeling ill I can whip it out and use Predator vision to check.
That sounded way cooler in my head... I'm going to go take a nap now in shame.
Brilliant! 4 years later, here I am reading your comment and also laughing in shame 🤣 The wife's in the other room asking "what's so funny"...I dare not tell her that I'm now the kid's primary physician.
whaaa, why change TO fahrenheit?, leave it as Celsius that's the correct temperature scale worldwide.... (edit: changed from -> to)
Guillermo Lovato Good point.
When I was in elementary school, (in the 70's) they taught us the metric system because they said that we would be switching to it. What happened? Does anybody know? I have all of this knowledge that I have been waiting 40 years to use!
Acutecareems USA did it the "american" way, so everybody outside the US laughs about those funny units like inch, foot, yard, Fahrenheit, ounces and all that :/
yes, that's why change should be done from the people with exposure like Eric which does videos, educators, TV, etc.
Acutecareems Yup USA, Liberia, and Myanmar are the only ones who haven't switched... we will probably be forced to switch over by manufacturers as we lose more and more of our political/industrial dominance that we enjoyed since WW2.
Super easy to use metric... none of this 12 inches in a ft, 5280ft per mile, argh! I'm going to take a nap and throw a fit in my dreams.
Eric -- you might want to edit your description with current pricing. This has dropped to $325. Thanks for the useful vid -- I just bought one of these, and it really is a useful tool.
Is there any reason why you chose the TG165 as apposed to the TG167 which has a narrower viewing angle. 25 by 38 degrees (TG167) as opposed to 35 by 19 degrees (TG165)?????
What about sensing human temperature? How efficient is it, and upto what distance can we read the temp?
Also, can the lasers be turned off?
Would be very practical to use this device to detect who might have fever.
Can you pease let me know asap
Thanks and cheers
It's a strange world. Never had a car in my whole life. Yet here I find some interesting and useful information. Thank you m8. Still a bloody strange world though.
How hot can the exhaust metal tubing get just riding around?
thanks for this review I saw you use it in one of your other videos and I wanted to see more about it really really cool
Awesome tool Eric as always another good video 👍
Can you tell if the catalytic converter is bad with the flir ETG1
mines don't seem to work on my computer
Just watch out for IR reflections. We have a couple MSA units at the FD and it's always fun training with them. Once you are used to them you can literally shut out the lights and walk around like it's daylight.
thanks for the review... I really like this thing they are actually on sale for now... 299.99
Does your garage do the ecu tuning using a special computer. If you does can you review it.
can it record like take video recordings? or does it just take pictures
I wonder if you can use it to find air leaks on Windows by running heat in car
Yep.
No, you can only see solid material temperatures with this. To see gasses you need a special $50,000 gas visualizer thermal camera which looks at a much smaller part of the IR band than these cameras and lenses are capable of.
Actually you can see heat leakage because of it's effect on the materials around the leak. If you are looking at the door frame/window frame you can spot the areas where heat is escaping by the change in relative temperature. As you get closer to the leak the temperature of the outer layer of material will rise. So a big leak looks like the images he showed of the vents with the heat on.
*****
a car heater will not get hot enough to show that on the door frames
Love this, Eric! That is a nice tool and I see many uses for it, plus it would be fun to play with. See if anyone is stalking around your place in the wee hours etc.....
how does it do on fuss box's and wiring on automotive ?
i just bought the tg167 on Amazon. Im wondering if i should have bought the tg165 instead. i think the only difference is the 165 has o wider angle view. any advice? it hasn't showed up yet so i might chech it out and decide if i should exchange it for the tg165
There is a version of that uses smartphone now. Much nicer to have a bigger screen as you can use it with a tablet.
Came for a review, gave a like for the coolaid man clock.
How would you say this compares to the Flir One Pro that's coming out for smartphones?
I was thinking about wheel bearings the whole time -- then you mentioned them at the very end. :-) Very often, before you can hear a bad wheel bearing, they'll start to get hotter than normal -- this would be an excellent tool for that. For any bearing, really, as long as you had a normal one to compare it with.
Neat tool! A bit out of *my* price-range, but I'm just a DIY guy. A real technician could easily justify the cost, I'm sure.
Not only wheel bearings but break calipers as well. That's actually how I found mine, going on a drive and coming back and feeling around the rim. Pass side was a heck of a lot hotter than the driver side, replaced the caliper and I was good to go! Didn't even take off the wheel to see if that was the problem, but wheel bearings are a bit harder to get to or feel for temp haha.
I found a bad wheel bearing just by using a normal infrared non-contact thermometer. Three bearing caps were ~95-125F after driving for a while, one was 230F.
Now Just need the "Whoosh" Sound that the Predators Vision makes! Lol Awesome Demo thanks Eric!
There is one small but painful detail Eric forgot to mention - you CAN'T measure the temperature of the SHINY METAL. See the part with exhaust. Rusty tube is deadly hot but muffler seems to be cold, but in fact it's just a mirror so you see the ambient not the muffler itself. Keep this in mind also when using cheap IR thermometers. On metals you can easily make a 100 *C or F mistake in + or in -. Take care!
I thought you did tool reviews on ETCG1 channel only?
The thing about this camera thats sorta lame is that it doesn't take temperature readings from the actual imaging sensor. It still uses the same laser sensors that a cheap laser thermometer uses. The expensive FLIRs actually take the readings from the image you're seeing. Its far more accurate.
yeah but the "good" FLIR E you need to add a "1" or "2" to the front of the pricetag :D, eevblog did an awesome review on both. The expensive flir also has a "normal" camera for overlay and handles emissivity much better than this one
Guillermo Lovato
look up SEEK THERMAL. problem solved. no need to add 1 or 2 to the front of the pricetag.
***** I have a Seek Thermal and although it is a nice price range, the colors are a wash (everything looks warm). The Flir in this video has way better color definition between what's hot and what's not. I might still save up for one of these puppies!
Set it up on a tripod in the shop over night and look for ghosts.
do you actually get to keep these tools that you review?? 500usd wow man! that's amazing!
I have one. Awesome tool. Time saver, money maker $$
Eric im really curious if it works on people or even through the wall like in movies :D
Nice. you can locate bees in a wall with that.
That's really neat!
Dude! Keep it with Celsius. We should all make the personal switch to metric.
This would work well for finding coolant blockages :)
I wonder how well it would work on tires to see if air pressure is correct meaning how well is the tire contacting the ground looking for iver or under I flated tires especially aftermarket rims and tire sizes because the stock tire pressures are no longer vaalid like going from a 205/60-16 to a 235/35-20
Eric, how does it work on "Hamburgers"?
That's cool but not much I couldnt do with my exergen one I use for my nitro rcs. Top of the line.
Yeaa ETG1 you are awesome
i would love one of these but damn the price is crazy.
That is awesome! Too bad it's so expensive.
I'll admit, I'm jealous, I've always totally wanted one of those.
"Comes with a wrist strap, if you wanted to be stylish with it" LOL
Kent Brockman: Of course, there's no way to see into the Simpson home without some kind of infrared heat-sensitive camera. So let's turn it on!
If you have an open ground and something draining your battery you can find it with this camera.
Ultimate shop toy for sure id say it would come in handy for hunting as well hehehe
Sooo I can set it up on a tripod but it shuts off after a while.. Lol
This isn't an actual 'thermal camera' rather just a thermal sensor. Just FYI, but it's useful nevertheless, great for someone with a budget
How do you define "thermal camera"? Then why are optics used in these budget "thermal sensors"? Why they need germanium lens or zinc selenide lens to "see" like normal visible camera? It doesn't make sense not to call them "thermal camera" since they work by optics and sensors just like a normal visible camera!!!
This would've been quite useful for your catalyst converter videos!
so it fits EU, China, Australia, US, UK and some other
Those adapters basically cover everywhere in the world.
The radio.its cool
Snazzy lil toy..but non touch infrared thermometer good enough to diagnose heat issues.for a tenth of the price...spos were all not as lucky as Eric to get 1 for free..:)
+12°C damn cold at your shop lol :D
wow thats amazing i want 1! :)
Nice! Tool, I like it, wish I can afford it tho, I think I'll wait for the, Harbor Freight, Version, 'lolo' 😂
i have seen exterminators use flir to find rats nesting through walls
all these gadgets are tempting but they don't really help in diagnostics
Apeacfulguy Resistance in a broken wire makes heat. You know how many broken wires I deal with on a daily basis as a diesel tech? This things a life saver.
Oh but yes it does. Lean mix due to a tight or burnt valve, wheel bearing, overload of amps on a circuit, sticking caliper slide pins or piston, clogged radiator. You name it. This tool is a time saver, which turns into a money maker. I use a thermal image device every day in auto repair, and it has made my job so much faster and easier. This allows me to get more diag and repair out the door, and in turn, my bank account for retirement gets fatter.
I hate fahrenheit ...
ممتاز good
Lol can I find my turtles in my backyard with that thing ?
I need a thermal imaging equipment that has long range (minimum 100ft). Here in eastern MA, deer is everywhere and they come out at night. I hit one once, hit a coyote once and am tired of replacing the front bumper.
Those devils know me by now.
The range listed is not range from camera to heat source. It is actually more like the field of view. I know the units we use will show you a mouse in the grass at well over 100 feet!
Any body who can repackage a packaged item has the ability to be a good mechanic. Thats the test. For a potential apprentice . Hand the apprentice a brand new package that is not blistered packed and tell the fellow take it apart ,call me when you have every thing assembled .. Then upon checking his results . have him or her repackage the the product .. The potential apprentices ability to repackage the product will tell the boss if he has a winner or loser
sooooo much want
Ghost Hunting Equipment LOL
Boy is your wife in trouble. LOL
4 are predators
can you see rodents inside a drywall with this camera?
noice.......
lol, not even 99.9% of mechanics use this.
It's funny that no one agrees on how to pronounce FLIR
It's actually an acronym. Stands for "Forward Looking Infra-Red". Normally pronounced FLEER (Like Deer)
What he said ^^^^
Company representatives pronounce it as “FLEER” (long e sound), so I’m pretty sure that’s the correct way......
"fairly reasonably priced," my ass.
Kyle Schuh snap on has one for $1,395. It is totally worth the money. I save so much time doing a job. Great tool.
Nothing screams “I’m an old geezer” louder than “I’m gonna change this from Celsius to Fahrenheit”
This tool is unnecesary