User's Manual

Table of contents
11.2.3 Procedure .................................................................. 44
12 Application examples....................................................................... 45
12.1 Moisture & water damage ......................................................... 45
12.1.1 General...................................................................... 45
12.1.2 Figure........................................................................ 45
12.2 Faulty contact in socket............................................................ 45
12.2.1 General...................................................................... 45
12.2.2 Figure........................................................................ 45
12.3 Oxidized socket...................................................................... 46
12.3.1 General...................................................................... 46
12.3.2 Figure........................................................................ 46
12.4 Insulation deficiencies.............................................................. 47
12.4.1 General...................................................................... 47
12.4.2 Figure........................................................................ 47
12.5 Draft .................................................................................... 47
12.5.1 General...................................................................... 47
12.5.2 Figure........................................................................ 47
13 About FLIR Systems ........................................................................ 49
13.1 More than just an infrared camera .............................................. 50
13.2 Sharing our knowledge ............................................................ 50
13.3 Supporting our customers......................................................... 51
14 Definitions and laws ........................................................................ 52
15 Thermographic measurement techniques .......................................... 54
15.1 Introduction .......................................................................... 54
15.2 Emissivity.............................................................................. 54
15.2.1 Finding the emissivity of a sample.................................... 54
15.3 Reflected apparent temperature................................................. 58
15.4 Distance ............................................................................... 58
15.5 Relative humidity .................................................................... 58
15.6 Other parameters.................................................................... 58
16 History of infrared technology........................................................... 59
17 Theory of thermography................................................................... 62
17.1 Introduction ........................................................................... 62
17.2 The electromagnetic spectrum................................................... 62
17.3 Blackbody radiation................................................................. 62
17.3.1 Planck’s law ................................................................ 63
17.3.2 Wien’s displacement law................................................ 64
17.3.3 Stefan-Boltzmann's law ................................................. 65
17.3.4 Non-blackbody emitters................................................. 66
17.4 Infrared semi-transparent materials............................................. 68
18 The measurement formula................................................................ 69
19 Emissivity tables ............................................................................. 73
19.1 References............................................................................ 73
19.2 Tables .................................................................................. 73
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