When the final phase of a several-acre shopping mall complex outside of Birmingham, AL was completed about five years ago, the developer installed a 400,000 gallon fountain to set off the beautiful surrounding scenery provided by its landscape. Since then, they started paying around ten thousand dollars a month more than their expected water bill for this addition, which they assumed was a result of evaporation from the fountain spray, since the fountain water itself is recirculated...

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by David Francoeur
Director of Marketing - FLIR Systems

As many of you already know, InfraMation 2005 was a huge success! And, we’d like to thank all the attendees who came to Las Vegas to take advantage of the multiple learning opportunities and to share their own “infrared success stories.”

For the first time, we found the demand for the “IR Clinics” to be, frankly, overwhelming! Over 650 students enrolled in these three-hour “How to” workshops and gained expert knowledge, tips-and-tricks, and leading edge ideas to help them excel when they’re back on the job...

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Straight from the World Wide Web, here is what's going on in the world of infrared thermography.

• Space Telescope Catches First Starlight
  Discovery Channel - Nov 3, 2005
  ... Alexander Kashlinsky and colleagues at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., used a small infrared camera aboard the orbiting Spitzer Space ...

• How to Stay Young: Thermography Scans
  WSAW, WI - Oct 28, 2005
  It's possible with Digital Infared Thermal Imaging, or a ... one of only three or four thermography units in ... An infrared camera takes about 20 different shots of ...

• Efficiency is the new buzzword
  The Union Leader, NH - Oct 27, 2005
  ... Used in conjunction with an infrared camera, an auditor can find where outside air can leak into a home and heated air can leak out. ...

• Infrared Camera Chosen for its ‘Wow Factor’
  Process & Control Today, UK - Oct 27, 2005
  ... The infrared camera is continuously in operation, attracting visitors passing other exhibits and ... other centres of its kind, it has found thermal imaging to be ...
   

• American Power Conversion Launches Blade Readiness Assessment ...
  Yahoo! News (press release) - Oct 27, 2005
  ... Similarly, APC also measures existing temperature conditions using thermal imaging, which indicates where unacceptable or marginal overheating conditions ...

• Technology on the Border; Is Enough Being Used?
  KOLD-TV, AZ - Oct 26, 2005
  ... it's easier to see them at night with an infrared camera because they ... of high tech tools like night vision goggles, scope trucks, thermal imaging and sensory ...

• Casinos go high-tech to track gamblers
  Myrtle Beach Sun News, SC - Oct 16, 2005
  ... At a seminar called "Updating the Pit," Bally's Soltys said the company also is working on facial recognition software and even thermal imaging technology to ...

Here is a selection of recent new threads by IR Community members. Feel free to click the links, see how people have responded, and post your own response if you like.

• Color and emissivity
  Does anyone explain on how emissivity affect the colour. what color is hot "red or white?

• Trying to build on knowledge
  I am trying to find a way to get some practical experience with IR. I just wonder if there is any type of mentoring being done?...

• What to charge for thermographic photos
  We do inspections for many different insurance companies. Recently bought a Flir E series and need to find out what to charge for the thermograph photos. Is there a industry standard price for these photos?

• Level III Consultant Needed
  We want to hire a level 3 IR camera tech to perform temperature measurements off site (Michigan and Wisconsin). If interested please contact...

• Black mold
  What is the correct way to find mold behind sheet rock & tile ceilings?

• High ambient reflection?
  I have a large MCC. Most of the panels have reversing starters. Naturally the starter coils are showing a high temperature. It is also showing some questionable temperatures on the motor leads and the feeder leads. My question is this. Are these temperatures normal due to the high temperature of the motor starter coils, or should we be worried about these temperatures?

• Using Camera in High Magnetic Field Area
  Anyone ever heard of damaging an Infrared Camera while subjecting it to a high magnetic field area...

• PTs
  I need information about de possibly causes of failure in PTs

• Does Curvature Affect Emissivity
  I am working with polymer fibers on the order of 100 microns to 2 mm. There is a not a lot of literature on whether curvature of the object affects the emissivity....

• FLIR Leak detection of Gas Pipelines.
  I have been asked to find leaks from natural gas pipelines from a helicopter. The pipelines are buried 1m under the ground. I have a Agema THV1000 radiometric FLIR. Has anyone used FLIR for this application.?

• Cost for Loose Connection
  would like to put a dollar amount saved for identifying a hot connection. I welcome your input.

• Diesel Exhaust Manifold Temps.
  A friend who operates a small fleet of diesel engine trucks told me that his trucks should get approx. 2.4km per litre and when they deteriorate to 1.4km per litre they are taken off the road for repairs....

And of course if YOU have a question or want to start a discussion on a topic, we would love to hear from you. Just post a new thread on a message board.

Brainteaser of the Month 

Here is this month's brainteaser. Readers who email us the correct identification and explanation of the thermal pattern in the thermogram are entered into a drawing to win a prize from ITC.

Please put "Brainteaser" as the subject of the message.

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Do you have an interesting image that you think would challenge other thermographers? If so please email me your image (preferably in native .img, .jpg, .tif, .tgw, or .tmw format) with an accompanying visible photo and explanation. If your image is used, you receive a gift as well.

Last Month's Brainteaser

Our thermogram contributor last month, Tom McGhee, asked if his thermogram was too easy. Well, yeah it was, but that's ok, it was a fun image, and we have plenty more tough ones for you to solve. So, Tom, we were happy to give the readers an easy one last month! Oh by the way, it's a blimp!

Congratulations to our winner, Ronald Hein and to Tom. They both receive low emissivity traveling coffee mugs.

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