User Manual

Table of contents
26.3 Infrared detector ................................................................... 145
26.3.1 General.................................................................... 145
26.3.2 Procedure ................................................................ 146
27 Application examples..................................................................... 147
27.1 Moisture & water damage ....................................................... 147
27.1.1 General.................................................................... 147
27.1.2 Figure...................................................................... 147
27.2 Faulty contact in socket .......................................................... 147
27.2.1 General.................................................................... 147
27.2.2 Figure...................................................................... 147
27.3 Oxidized socket.................................................................... 148
27.3.1 General.................................................................... 148
27.3.2 Figure...................................................................... 148
27.4 Insulation deficiencies............................................................ 149
27.4.1 General.................................................................... 149
27.4.2 Figure...................................................................... 149
27.5 Draft .................................................................................. 150
27.5.1 General.................................................................... 150
27.5.2 Figure...................................................................... 150
28 About FLIR Systems ...................................................................... 151
28.1 More than just an infrared camera ............................................ 152
28.2 Sharing our knowledge .......................................................... 152
28.3 Supporting our customers....................................................... 152
28.4 A few images from our facilities ................................................ 153
29 Glossary ...................................................................................... 154
30 Thermographic measurement techniques ........................................ 157
30.1 Introduction ........................................................................ 157
30.2 Emissivity............................................................................ 157
30.2.1 Finding the emissivity of a sample.................................. 157
30.3 Reflected apparent temperature............................................... 160
30.4 Distance ............................................................................. 160
30.5 Relative humidity .................................................................. 160
30.6 Other parameters.................................................................. 160
31 History of infrared technology......................................................... 162
32 Theory of thermography................................................................. 165
32.1 Introduction ......................................................................... 165
32.2 The electromagnetic spectrum................................................. 165
32.3 Blackbody radiation............................................................... 165
32.3.1 Planck’s law .............................................................. 166
32.3.2 Wien’s displacement law.............................................. 167
32.3.3 Stefan-Boltzmann's law ............................................... 168
32.3.4 Non-blackbody emitters............................................... 169
32.4 Infrared semi-transparent materials........................................... 171
33 The measurement formula.............................................................. 172
34 Emissivity tables ........................................................................... 176
34.1 References.......................................................................... 176
34.2 Tables ................................................................................ 176
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