Thank you for your video. It was most helpful. I had just ordered one a few days ago and came across your thoughts. Now I’m even more excited to get it. 🙂
When I was just about finished remodeling my guest room a pipe from the previous owner on the floor above broke and did a ton of water damage. It was a hot pipe, so my thermal camera was able to easily see what was being immediately effected. When I put some holes in to force an industrial dehumidifier (bought it for $30 because it was broken, was able to get it working while a replacement fan was on order by using a bounce house fan instead) I was able to track the remaining water by watching all of the cold spots. The camera was worth every penny right there. Next camera I get is going to be one of the Chinese ones not limited by ITAR because not only is the resolution and frame rate better than my FLIR, it also doesn't have its own battery. Needing to charge the thermal camera every time I would use it was terrible. HPLC update: I have given up on the original Win 3.1 software and have begun a big project to reverse engineer it. I can now manually poll the spectra from the DAD via GPIB. I am hoping to be able to read it more often manually than the automatic update allows (max read speed is 10Hz using the method from the original software). I have also gotten a fair bit of serial captures, and I can manually write some limited commands, I am just needing to implement the rest. Also pausing to switch from Labview to Python as I am going to be releasing the whole thing on Github. I have been learning a ton with this project. Also, crap debugging GPIB sucks.
Yeah, I've had a TC004 for awhile now. It is pretty expensive, but I think you do get something for your money. I've used it for 3d printers (it is pretty important for heating to be even on a print bed...), electronics, building insulation leaks, everything. Point it at a breaker box to see which circuits are using the most power. Glad you got them to send you a nice unit 😁
Looks like a decent unit. I have a Seek reveal, it's also a self contained unit, about the size of an old Nokia phone. Glad I didn't get one of the smartphone connected ones. I like that shoulder carried one you showed, when I first heard about thermal imagers, they cost more than a car, now you can get a nice one for under $1k!
I picked up a flir usb c cam for $100 last month and have thermal scanning friends home during the California heatwave. May just make a side hustle business with it.
Rinoa, don't forget that the Rough & Tumble Steam Show in Kinzer Pa is August 14, 15, 16 and 17th this year. Hope you both get to go again. Enjoyed the video coverage from last year.
I heard something about how thermal cameras are pretty regulated by the gov. Like flir used to have a low framerate so they wouldn't be used on consumer grade weapons. The UI not being optional might be something they're regulated to do. I eventually need to get one, probably a phone one for logic board repair. Easier to find shorts than dumping IPA everywhere or feeling around with the back of your hand.
ITAR regulates what is exportable under the assumption that only the US is capable of making good sensors and we need to stop them from being exported for use in communist fighter jets. China can now make a decent sensor, and such restrictions don't apply with a Chinese-made sensor. It is perfectly legal for a US resident to own much higher spec thermal cameras as long as they are not exported from the US. I have several. One was even built into a bunch of cars as early as the 1990s.
@@TMS5100they are absolutely regulated (ITAR regulations). it’s on the sale and export level and only on US tech, so Chinese made sensors would be outside of of the export control
Nice camera. Should be pretty useful in building inspections and electronics repair. Those pesky little MLCC (multi-layer ceramic capacitor) buggers that love to get shorted all too often ain't gonna escape you anymore! Thermal cameras are by far the best tools to identify overheating, possibly failed components.
I just checked. Looks like minimum good focus is about 10cm away. It would be able to show a tiny SMD component as a dot, but recognisable. Companies sell thermal cameras with adjustable focus which might be able to almost do a microscopic view.
I wouldnt want to repair modern electronics, i havent opened it up but im curious if the quality is good. A component that doesnt need fixing is better than one that can be fixed after all
I now realized you meant pointing it at components, not how hard it would be to repair this camera. I'd say this isn't a good fit since its focus limit is about 10cm. Sorry for misunderstanding.
@@RinoaL Food items should be First In First Out, so the new stuff should be put behind the old stuff to rotate it out. I would imagine actually doing that would lead to a short career though as they would be much slower to get things stocked on top of being a lot of extra strain on the body.
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Thank you for your video. It was most helpful. I had just ordered one a few days ago and came across your thoughts. Now I’m even more excited to get it. 🙂
When I was just about finished remodeling my guest room a pipe from the previous owner on the floor above broke and did a ton of water damage. It was a hot pipe, so my thermal camera was able to easily see what was being immediately effected. When I put some holes in to force an industrial dehumidifier (bought it for $30 because it was broken, was able to get it working while a replacement fan was on order by using a bounce house fan instead) I was able to track the remaining water by watching all of the cold spots. The camera was worth every penny right there. Next camera I get is going to be one of the Chinese ones not limited by ITAR because not only is the resolution and frame rate better than my FLIR, it also doesn't have its own battery. Needing to charge the thermal camera every time I would use it was terrible.
HPLC update: I have given up on the original Win 3.1 software and have begun a big project to reverse engineer it. I can now manually poll the spectra from the DAD via GPIB. I am hoping to be able to read it more often manually than the automatic update allows (max read speed is 10Hz using the method from the original software). I have also gotten a fair bit of serial captures, and I can manually write some limited commands, I am just needing to implement the rest. Also pausing to switch from Labview to Python as I am going to be releasing the whole thing on Github. I have been learning a ton with this project. Also, crap debugging GPIB sucks.
very nice to hear about the HPLC. I might be able to get mine into a homelab soon.
Yeah, I've had a TC004 for awhile now. It is pretty expensive, but I think you do get something for your money. I've used it for 3d printers (it is pretty important for heating to be even on a print bed...), electronics, building insulation leaks, everything. Point it at a breaker box to see which circuits are using the most power. Glad you got them to send you a nice unit 😁
Looks like a decent unit. I have a Seek reveal, it's also a self contained unit, about the size of an old Nokia phone. Glad I didn't get one of the smartphone connected ones. I like that shoulder carried one you showed, when I first heard about thermal imagers, they cost more than a car, now you can get a nice one for under $1k!
I picked up a flir usb c cam for $100 last month and have thermal scanning friends home during the California heatwave. May just make a side hustle business with it.
Rinoa, don't forget that the Rough & Tumble Steam Show in Kinzer Pa is August 14, 15, 16 and 17th this year. Hope you both get to go again. Enjoyed the video coverage from last year.
Don't worry, we're thinking of going. Only if we feel like it though.
I heard something about how thermal cameras are pretty regulated by the gov. Like flir used to have a low framerate so they wouldn't be used on consumer grade weapons. The UI not being optional might be something they're regulated to do. I eventually need to get one, probably a phone one for logic board repair. Easier to find shorts than dumping IPA everywhere or feeling around with the back of your hand.
Nah the ui isnt regulated
ITAR regulates what is exportable under the assumption that only the US is capable of making good sensors and we need to stop them from being exported for use in communist fighter jets. China can now make a decent sensor, and such restrictions don't apply with a Chinese-made sensor.
It is perfectly legal for a US resident to own much higher spec thermal cameras as long as they are not exported from the US. I have several. One was even built into a bunch of cars as early as the 1990s.
they are not regulated.
@@TMS5100they are absolutely regulated (ITAR regulations). it’s on the sale and export level and only on US tech, so Chinese made sensors would be outside of of the export control
9hz and over 640x480; the price is the bigger barrier for now; you can still buy inside the US; just cannot export.
Nice camera. Should be pretty useful in building inspections and electronics repair. Those pesky little MLCC (multi-layer ceramic capacitor) buggers that love to get shorted all too often ain't gonna escape you anymore! Thermal cameras are by far the best tools to identify overheating, possibly failed components.
The soda can thing is really cool, or not so cool depending on if you got an expensive heat camera or not
hahahaha
Please ask for a Linux version of the PC software, as Windows is a dealer breaker for me.
And a Linux SW version will be a really good selling point
A linux version might be harder for them to maintain i wonder
how well do you think this would work for circuit board diagnostics? Is the lense good enough for kind of Macro shots?
I just checked. Looks like minimum good focus is about 10cm away. It would be able to show a tiny SMD component as a dot, but recognisable. Companies sell thermal cameras with adjustable focus which might be able to almost do a microscopic view.
Hi Rinoa how is it on the component level i.e. for repairing electronic boards?
I wouldnt want to repair modern electronics, i havent opened it up but im curious if the quality is good. A component that doesnt need fixing is better than one that can be fixed after all
I now realized you meant pointing it at components, not how hard it would be to repair this camera. I'd say this isn't a good fit since its focus limit is about 10cm. Sorry for misunderstanding.
Specs say 2m drop proof on your new TC004 so it shouldn’t break from a drop like the SEEK did. ✌️
Oh I hadnt seen that! Yeah my seeks were always dropped from 1m too. Both times shattered image sensor. Real shame
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Enthalpy of vaporization
Thats a word I always forget!
They dont rotate stock
Unsure what that means. Please rephrase.
@@RinoaL Food items should be First In First Out, so the new stuff should be put behind the old stuff to rotate it out. I would imagine actually doing that would lead to a short career though as they would be much slower to get things stocked on top of being a lot of extra strain on the body.
@@seeigecannon I know what fifo is but DavenHiskey didn't specify who wasnt doing it in his comment, so can only speculate.