Now, this technology is new to me, but I believe that's Homer Simpson in the oven, rotating slowly. His body temperature has risen to 400 degrees. He's literally stewing in his own juices!
Go around the house and look at all your outlets. You’ll find that GFCI outlets put out a small amount of heat. (Something to do with their function that is unavoidable.) Regular outlets that are warm and under no load may require investigation.
You can also spot heating conduits in walls, roughly figure out what power adapters are not very efficient, and even use them to gauge how well heated blankets and the like are working. I used mine to look at studs in the wall to figure out (well, be certain about) how some old renovations were handled.
Do you own any "Hot Wheels" toy cars? If so, how hot actually are those wheels?
In the absence of "Hot Wheels" toy cars, I'd also be interested in other objects which claim to be hot, but likely aren't i.e. a "Hot Topic" clothing item, or bottle of "Hot Sauce".
You can't not say what phone has FLIR. Need details please! lol
There was a discontinued (and discounted) CAT phone I was looking at a while back. The phone itself was mostly unimpressive, but it did have a decent FLIR camera which is why I was looking at it.
I've seen these added onto phones, but you bought a phone WITH it already on board? That's sick. I've not seen anything like that in years... They just keep pumping out bullshit over and over again, year after year.
That's a really neat idea for a horror device. You can see evidence of the creature(s) in your walls, but it's very blurry (heat signature spreads out when moving through the drywall), and also delayed (takes time to radiate from warm spots, and also to form new spots).
I'd love to try making a horror game with that angle, but ADHD has me by the balls 😞
you can sometimes use these as a stud finder, depends on the wall
If you ever do electronics repair and are good at soldering these are a lifesaver for quick diagnosis if the resolution is high enough. Look at the board, apply power, and the part that is shorting out will often quickly get stupid hot. Sometimes it will be a complex repair you can’t easily do like a bga chip but you’d be surprised how often it’s just a random capacitor that went bad in your phone or switch or whatever and swapping it out (or even just getting rid of it if it’s an extra filter) fixes the issue. The hard part is finding out the value bc there are never schematics
A less easy to use alternative to this that I use bc thermal cams are expensive is squirt isopropyl alcohol or flux on the board and apply power. It’ll boil at the point where the part is shorting. Harder to determine but much cheaper. If you already have the camera though
My go to is to upside-down spray canned air at the PCB. once the canned air boils off, it leaves a layer of frost and you can immediately tell what is hot because it melts the frost.
I bought one just to check equipment after I've run it all day. Checking the baler and combine for bad bearings periodically will hopefully prevent an expensive fire.
Totally random thought, but check the temp of different things both directly, and also in a mirror reflection. I wonder if it'll sense the same temperature via a mirror reflection...
Fun fact: the heat measured is just infrared light, which tell you the objects temperature with the principles of Black Body Radiation, so if an object is reflective, it most likely also reflects infrared and you will see the reflected objects temperature.
If your first thought was "wait, infrared like tv remotes?" Yes! Point the tv remote at your camera to see how "hot" it gets (it's not hot but it's sending a lot of infrared through other means)
I'm dealing with this exact issue right now. I don't have thermal imaging, but I used an IR thermometer and recorded temps as much as ten degrees lower in the places with water staining than in other parts of the wall/room/house. Any tips for finding the leaks/improving insulation? Right now my best idea is cutting holes in each cavity and blowing in insulation, but I'm not an expert at all.
Nah, sorry. So far I've only been living in houses made from stone and concrete, I have no experience with improving insulation in framed buildings. Someone else, maybe. Sound like just adding insulation isn't a great idea though as that will push the dew point into the wall. You'd have to separate the insulation layer from the humid air inside at the same time, otherwise you'd just get the water in the insulation and therefore wet insulation and mold.
Look at IR reflections on matte steel surfaces - you'll probably find that the longer wavelengths get reflected quite well on a surface that is matte in visible light.
Stainless steel surfaces in the kitchen are usually a candidate - kitchen hood, front panel of the oven, the side of the microwave, the freezer, something like that.
I have 3 glassbottles in my fridge, that I use for filling up my water bottle I carry around. I have a pixel 8 pro with a thermometer. And I use it to check which bottle have the coldest water if Iam I doubt.
This makes me think of my pizza from Saturday. We ordered Mod, so my wife and I got individual pizzas. I didn't grab them well from the delivery guy, and they went upside down off the porch. Mine was out of the box, upside down in the snow.