Thermal imager- What do you use?

[999]

Anyone use a thermal imager in there job?
interested to here whats good given the cost of these units

 

[DGT plumbing]

I'm looking at getting one myself and to me the Flir1 looks like a good bit of kit. There are a few plumbers engineers on Twitter who use them and get good results. Not a bad price either.

 

[999]

yes, im thinking of one myself and just want a few pointers from folk in the trade 😉
I'll take a look at that one

 

[999]

Gets good reviews that one and its resonable price to what i had been looking at (Cat S61)

 

[Nick Cox]

I am using a pulsar xq50 I found a blocked heating pipe with it last week with no trouble at all

 

[999]

Am i looking at the right product here lol, a rifle scope is coming up when i search for a "pulsar xq50"

 

[DGT plumbing]

A very expensive riffle scope at that.

 

[Nick Cox]

Am i looking at the right product here lol, a rifle scope is coming up when i search for a "pulsar xq50"

Try adding Helion sorry about that !!

 

[999]

£2600 wow !

 

[Nick Cox]

belting bit of kit though I could check which rads were full of sludge and how well they were circulating, I even found a blockage in a zone valve has its outdoor uses too.

 

[999]

At that price im confident its well and truely up to the job, im looking at anything thats mentioned but unfortunately i wont be spending that sort of money, the wife would have something to say 😉

 

[Chuck]

They are great fun and in the right circumstances work like magic but unless you specialise in leak detection and thermal surveys you may find it is difficult to make one earn its keep.

They have the same calibration issue as contactless spot-temperature probes, i.e. different materials have different albedos. Also, get one that allows you to superimpose visible and thermal images easily. Without this it's difficult to figure out what you're looking at.

You can hire them for ca £75 per day or twice that per week if you have a job that you think needs one. I'd strongly recommend doing this before buying one as the novelty factor soon wears off and they ain't exactly cheap.

 

[Nick Cox]

Mine also comes in useful for my hunting too

 

[Chuck]

Mine also comes in useful for my hunting too

Indeed, but don't tell your accountant or the tax man 🙂

Also, be careful not to point them at customers wearing thin clothes. Awkward!!!

 

[Nick Cox]

mums the word !!