Hi on the previous video for the Lroy Oscilloscope Repair, you saw me use this Flur E60 infrared camera and I thought we'd uh, just play around with it a bit more and take a look at it. It's about $12,000 Australian doar worth. It's the uh topof the line in their eer uh models they you know they got a whole bunch of them. This is the top of the range one with Um 320x 240 resolution uh sensor in it as well as a 3 20x 240 resolution uh screen so thought we'd have a play around with it.

Have a look at the Um interface now on the front. Here we have a pretty impressive looking infrared lens I think it can accept optional Uh lenses as well. On the front we've got Focus adjust ring here. it's manual focus on the top here.

We've got a laser pointer. so you just press the button down here and you've got a laser pointer. There is a bit of parallx error there of course. um cuz it's It's not directly in line with the sensor so it's only really good at larger distances.

And then we've got a Um camera lamp up here. it's a lead of course it. uh, just like a flash for the Um digital camera that we've got here and you'll see some of the modes we uh, play around with on this thing. We can actually superimpose our uh infrared image onto our Uh video onto uh the camera um as well and under this flap.

Here we have an S D card and we have a video out as well. the SD card um is used to save the uh image which is done by the trigger here so you just pull the trigger and it saves the uh current image on the screen directly to a JPEG on the SD card. or it can save video as well if you're in video mode. so this thing will actually um output uh, composite video to an external monitor which is quite neat if you want to look on a larger screen.

But of course you're not going to get any increased resolution cuz the sensor is only 320x 240. Now when I say say only 320x 240. That's a pretty darn impressive resolution for an infrare camera and that's what you pay for. Huge amount of money.

um keypad interface. it's fairly generic. you uh got a menu key over here which uh calls up stuff which we'll have a look at in okay and arrow arrow keys and not much else really. power button and a play button now over on this side Here we have a USB interface and a charging port as well.

It's got like a custom little power jack in there. don't really like it. I Love the rubber. look at the rubber boots they've got on these.

They really want to seal out the dust and the crap. and uh, the moisture. You could probably use this thing in the rain or something like that. It's IP rated I Don't know I Haven't looked at the specs I've only been playing with this thing for like uh, 30 minutes, like an hour or something.

so um really? I don't This is not going to be a full review I don't know a huge amount um of technical detail about it. Now we have the battery in here. you get a separate um charger as well and it all comes in a funky case. Well it want to for $112,000 and there's the funky case.

it is, uh very impressive. It's like a pelican type uh flight case and it comes with the charger spare battery I've got the other battery charging at the moment. The connection leads, couple of quick start guides and some software cuz I'm sure you can do a lot more than what I'm going to show you today now as you can see uh by default it Powers off there and it uh gives you the center pointer position which tells you the uh spot uh temperature right in the center and we can adjust our Focus there we can pull that in line I've got a I've got the board down there and it's actually um it's you know it's the there's a bit of paralex in there. it's not looking down there, it's looking sort of that area up there.

so that's what we've got here and we can focus that and is very impressive Ive resolution on this thing. Now by default it has that spot temperature it seems to like, um, freeze every once in a while I Don't know whether or not that's uh, normal or not not entirely. Uh, sure, what's going on there. but anyway, we can call up the menu here and let's take a look at the various modes now.

Zoom Mode: Not terribly exciting. Uh, the parameters. For going to the parameters, we can, um, do all the emissivity, um, stuff the distance, atmospheric temperature, or window compensation, all that sort of jazz. and we can change our pallette.

So if we don't like the uh, particular display color, there's a grayscale version of it. It's not really, um, as nice as the others we've got. Artic Oh, look at, that isn't that lovely. So that's really quite neat.

So it's got all those different pallet modes. Really quite enjoy those. Oh rainow, what do we got? Ah I think that Arctic one was pretty neat. anyway.

Let's uh, leave it on that, shall we? and we'll go down to here. We've got tools. Let's have a look what we've got in tools we've got. um, so we can add spot.

Let's add a spot. Let's go in here and we can. I presume: move that around so that's a manual. That's a manual spot.

So if you want I mean this thing, uh, mounts on a tripod as well. By the way, it's got a tripod mount down here, so that probably would be better if I had the Thing. mounted on a tripod. but we can set that spot to down there for example and we can I Don't know.

Let's no, we don't really need to center it cuz we've already got a center one. so let's get out of that. so we should. No, yeah, there we go.

So we've got our second spot now. so we got two fixed spots and let's try and add we want to go down Isotherm. Let's go and have a look what that does. Let's go into the Isotherm here and we can add let's go above and there you go.

It shows what's above I presume a certain above or below a certain temp. I Think that's how Isotherm works? Not entirely sure. So let's call that up again and we can get a difference as well. and you can choose a difference setup.

You can choose which ones that you want to use as a reference and stuff like that so we don't want to do that. Let's go out of that. Now here's where the fun begins folks. We're going to put Thermal Fusion Mode on and what this does is it overlays the thermal image onto the digital camera so you can see that the it really is quite neat it.

Uh, you've got to set it up correctly. Of course we're We're on that rainbow mode at the moment I don't particularly uh like that. So let's go in there and let's go back to iron mode that we started off with and there we go. so we can.

It overlays that temperature. you can see the heat sink there warming up and it overlays I Don't know how it actually detect which ones are you know, where, what threshold to actually uh, display the image at, but it is quite neat. You can actually overlay that on the digital image. so I really like that interval above below? Oh okay, there we go.

So we got Auto So let's try above so it will only do things that are above a set temperature I'm presuming something something like that. Next up, let's try picture in picture cuz this one is quite Jazzy as well. Now there we go that allow that just has the thermal image in the center and the uh digital camera around the outside of that I Don't particularly uh, like that pallet we're on at all. So there you go.

We can see the thermal image in the center there, surrounded by the digital camera. You can see the hot spots inside. the uh ic's there. We'll take a look at that in a second cuz that's really quite.

uh Jazzy but uh, that is really quite. Uh, nice. The picture in picture and the thermal Fusion modes I Really like those, but they're sort of like the three uh, major modes and we can record video as well. If we go down to uh oh, where is it there we go.

We're in camera mode at the moment, we can actually go into video mode and we can press the save button to start and we can actually uh. so if we go around like that, we scan around and we will press the button trigger again and it saved that video. So yep, takes a while. It's a, you know it.

It's not the fastest thing out there, but it does actually work Bingo There it is. There is our video, so let's play that there. Now here folks is a very good example of, um. infrared reflection off a shiny metallic surface.

Now take a look down here. We've got this, uh, metal can here and the metal can is. you know it is pretty darn hot, right? But you'll see the reflection of these, um, squares on the power supply. Um, onto this and reflecting up into the camera.

Let's take a look at it. Check it out. There it is. You can see you can see the reflections off that, so you've got to be careful when you're using these things of those shiny surfaces that can reflect things that aren't genuinely hot.

And here's another example of that reflection as well. Take a look at the, um, the aluminium, uh, capacitor we've got down there. and of course it's got a shiny metal surface on it. and if we look at that through the camera, let's get a focus.

Let's get good focus on that There we go. Look at that you can actually see that. You would think that the top of that can is a different temperature to its outside. It's not.

It's just because it is a shiny metal surface. Now take a look at the resolution on that. We can see all the Vi holes in there and everything. That's very, very impressive stuff.

It really is. Uh, quite remarkable. See the connector there and we can see the heat sinks. Of course we can.

Uh, focus on those. We can see all the individual fins. Very impressive stuff. Now, as far as its macro capability goes, it's not that great.

I mean I'm as close as I can get there and I'm probably 7 in away or something from the object and I can't adjust the focus anymore. I'm going in closer I Simply cannot. Um, simply cannot get that anymore. It's too close.

So about 7 in is the minimum distance or there about 6 or 7 in away. Now here's a real good example of the thermal Fusion mode which is overlaying those uh, hot heat sinks there on the real live digital image of the board and you can adjust the focus so that goes from. you know, really blurry like that just blob type stuff and you get the Focus right and then it really shows the heat sink superimposed. It really is quite neat.

I Love this thermal Fusion mode and if you try and look at other parts of the lab that are pretty much essentially at the same temperature, I Mean there's my arcade machine over there in the corner with a chair and uh, but because there's no real like, there's not huge differences between those. It is, uh, quite hard to see the uh, you know, you can certainly see the objects, but uh, it's certainly, uh, not as nice as when there's a bigger thermal difference between them. And if you take a look at my ADSL Wi-Fi router on there, you can actually see through the case of this thing. It's a big fuzzy blob and then you put it in focus and you can really, you know, see right through the case to the main.

Um, you know, the presumably the main, um, the main processor inside that's um, consuming most of the heat, so you can physically see where it is inside the case without having to take the case off. Great stuff. and I'm doing this like standing a meter away now. This is really fascinating.

What I've got here is I've got my JBC soldering iron, so there it is there. Okay, and if you have a look at it, you can see the hot spots inside where they're joined, where the wires are connected inside the actual iron itself. like in inside the uh handle of the iron. I Mean there's the tip all the way down there, but you can see where they're actually joined inside the iron.

Terrific! And you can really see very clearly the shiny legs on my desk chair there and you can see under the desk you can see the Uh, we can see the arms of the chair there. You can see the Uh plug packs down in there. there's various plug packs really getting uh, quite warm down there. There's another wireless router on the side there and the Uh PC under my desk which is lit up like a Christmas tree and it's really quite nice.

You can see the airon vent up there is pumping out like 15 air. It's got a little streamer attached to it so you can see when the air is coming out and uh, if we we can switch over to maybe thermal Fusion mode perhaps let's give that a go. There we we go. So it shows you the Uh shows you the temperature differences over overlaid on the real image.

that's quite nice and then we could uh go in there and choose picture in picture mode and boom that just allows us to look around like that. There's my lead lights, you can see those. that really is quite neat. And of course if I want to uh record video on that, let's put it back to the Uh Thermal Fusion mode.

Here we go Thermal Fusion mode and I'll record video I'll press the trigger that will start recording. You can see the little timer on there and that will record nice little video which I should be able to include in the cliping here and then we can pan down to the room we go focus in. On the other side, we got the arcade machine over there. got my plant over there.

there's my other tripod got my trolley. It's a bit of a mess. the old lab there you go. Even though everything in here is supposed to be at the same temperature, you can uh, you can see the stool in front of the arcade machine over there.

There you go. so this is all being captured in the video mode and then if I press the trigger again I can save it 49 seconds and Bingo and there you go. We can actually play that video back on the screen. It's a little bit jerky.

Um, I'm not sure what the frame rate on this I found really one dumb feature. um little tiny battery icon up there I think it's too small? I think it should be much larger than that. maybe like a horizontal one or something like that. but anyway, it shows up in, uh, regular camera mode.

but if we go down here to uh oh yeah into video mode, it disappears so you know that's why wouldn't you show the battery icon all the time? Crazy Now I'm home at the moment inside one of our bedrooms and check this out, You can actually see the beams behind the wall there. I mean once again, we've got that Um angle thing. We've got that parallx eror there, but that's actually pointing up towards the corner that uh Hot Spot there right in the well hot spot right in the center is the corner and you can see you can see the beams in the wall there and if you go if I pan right over to the other side, you can actually see one of the Cross braces going down the side of the wall like that. Absolutely amazing.

You can see all of the Uh beams in the roof as well, right through the wall because the uh roof space of course would be warmer. It's been a it's fairly hot day here even though it was overcast. so that roof space of course is um, heated up and of course a, uh, very typical use for these things is in the termite industry. They can look through walls and they can find term termites and I would presume that the Um termites would, uh, you know, show up as a thermal signature.

You'd be able to see their Trail or something like that. Now you can see the cross brace in the wall going across like that as well. You can see them in the center of the wall. Brilliant stuff.

and once again, the reason that the Uh Corners appear to be uh, brighter when they're not actually um, you know, warmer is because there's um, we're getting infrared reflection off those Corners there. So that's why they appear to be bright. All right here. I am uh.

outside at night, it's pretty damn dark. Um, the only Li is inside the house there. and here's the thermal image of that. You can't uh see through the glass like the TV is on there.

You actually can't see that at all. and uh, once we get out here though, it is completely dark. I Mean let's have a look in the garage here we go. I Mean you can't see anything on camera there.

but there's the car all lit up like a Christmas tree. That's the wife's car. It's still warm so let's head on out and uh, have a look around. We can see all the Furn out here and out into the darkness.

I Mean there is a tree down there I Can't see it on the uh, uh, can't see it on the viewfinder at all. but it, uh, certainly shows up on the IR. Check it out and you can still see all the concrete, uh, concrete garden beds and stuff are still lit up like a Christmas tree. There's a steps I could easily walk up and down these.

There's a plant and uh, there's the back garden over there. Let's go have a look at the Uh Frog Pond which is down in here I Can barely see anything. um, especially when my night vision hasn't adjusted cuz I'm staring at the Uh staring at the screen. now you can't see anything on the on that but there is the Frog Pond Once again, all lit up.

you can see the uh great on top and maybe if there was a uh frog in there I can't hear him but uh, we might be able to see him. There's the house next door. once again, there's nothing on camera there. It doesn't show up at all, but that house is lit up like the proverbial Christmas tree.

So there you go. This is really quite nice. I could uh navigate easily in the dark here. Not a problem.

so there's and you see the grass down the bottom there. there's all the concrete edging on the uh garden bed. go around the side of the house. there's the water tank.

All the PIP work. got to be careful I don't trip on something. you can really easily see the gate. Not a problem at all.

and uh, let's open this up and there is a street light out here so you can actually uh, see some stuff now on the main camera and there's a car up there I Can see it much easily than I can with my own eyes. It really stands out. and uh, there's the front garden. There's a front door you can see our platypus L lit up.

Let's go in and have a look at our platypus There it is, isn't it? Beautiful! All lit up, lovely stained glass platypus and can see myself in the window. Hello! Woohoo Terrific! I Love it really works well in the dark. Fantastic. All right now.

I'm facing the uh tree down in the bottom of the garden down there and you can see it on the thermal camera. No problems. There's a big step down, you can even see the bird bath right there in the center. You can see the tree um uh, limbs on there and the trunk.

but you can't see anything on the main camera because it's a not bright enough. But if I shine a torch down there there, it is up. And it really essentially makes no difference at all to the infrared image. of course.

absolutely none. It works day and night. Beautiful. So there you have it.

That's a quick little uh, play around with the Flur E60 thermal imaging camera. Fantastic! If you can afford one of these puppies, Get it. Catch you next time.