Product Manual

Table of contents
11 Application examples....................................................................... 22
11.1 Moisture & water damage ......................................................... 22
11.1.1 General...................................................................... 22
11.1.2 Figure........................................................................ 22
11.2 Faulty contact in socket............................................................ 22
11.2.1 General...................................................................... 22
11.2.2 Figure........................................................................ 22
11.3 Oxidized socket...................................................................... 23
11.3.1 General...................................................................... 23
11.3.2 Figure........................................................................ 23
11.4 Insulation deficiencies.............................................................. 24
11.4.1 General...................................................................... 24
11.4.2 Figure........................................................................ 24
11.5 Draft .................................................................................... 25
11.5.1 General...................................................................... 25
11.5.2 Figure........................................................................ 25
12 About FLIR Systems ........................................................................ 26
12.1 More than just an infrared camera .............................................. 27
12.2 Sharing our knowledge ............................................................ 27
12.3 Supporting our customers......................................................... 27
12.4 A few images from our facilities .................................................. 28
13 Glossary ........................................................................................ 29
14 Thermographic measurement techniques .......................................... 32
14.1 Introduction .......................................................................... 32
14.2 Emissivity.............................................................................. 32
14.2.1 Finding the emissivity of a sample.................................... 32
14.3 Reflected apparent temperature................................................. 35
14.4 Distance ............................................................................... 35
14.5 Relative humidity .................................................................... 35
14.6 Other parameters.................................................................... 35
15 History of infrared technology........................................................... 37
16 Theory of thermography................................................................... 40
16.1 Introduction ........................................................................... 40
16.2 The electromagnetic spectrum................................................... 40
16.3 Blackbody radiation................................................................. 40
16.3.1 Planck’s law ................................................................ 41
16.3.2 Wien’s displacement law................................................ 42
16.3.3 Stefan-Boltzmann's law ................................................. 43
16.3.4 Non-blackbody emitters................................................. 44
16.4 Infrared semi-transparent materials............................................. 46
17 The measurement formula................................................................ 47
18 Emissivity tables ............................................................................. 51
18.1 References............................................................................ 51
18.2 Tables .................................................................................. 51
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