While searching for portable oscilloscopes, I stumbled across this bizarre combo "120x90 20hz thermal camera" with "4000 count multimeter" for ~$130 (FR01C). 😮
To contrast, a couple years ago I bought a Flir One dongle for ~$250. It had an awful 80x60 8hz camera. I sold it a month later. 🤢
I was curious how prices have improved.
A 160x120 25hz dongle can be had for ~$150 (TR160i), and a 256x192 25hz dongle is ~$200 (TR256i). Flir prices start at 5x that. START! 😅
@mike honestly most commercial IR cameras are so bad and so overly expensive I'd just recommend to anyone who needs to use one to just rent a nice one anytime they need it, most rental companies it's about $100/day. An IR camera with a usably high resolution generally starts at around $15-20k in my experience
[edit] actually they dropped abit, looks like you can get pretty decent in the $5-7k range now but the good cameras are still $13-$20k, still though they're $75 to rent.
@mike depends on what you're using it for, 256x192 is decent, but if I'm doing some inspections on our equipment (or hell, just doing a yearly inspection on my home) I'd much rather have a 640x480 (technically 1280 x 960 but that's because it takes 4 pictures really fast) res with distance capture, auto blend, etc so I can just snap all the shots I need, download them, and process them later those old low res cameras took FOREVER and you had to be super close to whatever you were inspecting.
@mike It's really one of those "how much do I value my time" things, $100 to one-and-done a task is worth it to me over days to weeks with cheaper equipment.
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