Instructions

FLIR MR176 USER MANUAL Document Identifier: MR176-en-US_AB

1. Moisture reading (digital)

2. Moisture reading (bargraph);

Bars are blue in color when in

non-alarm state and red when

in an alarm state.

3. Selected Moisture Mode

4. High Moisture Alarm threshold

(see Section 5.8)

5. Set Reference value (see Set

Reference mode in Sections

5.2.3 and 5.2.6); pinless mode only. Note that in Pin mode this display area will show the

selected Material/Wood Group. Access the Moisture Mode to select the Material/Wood

Group.

5.2.3 IMAGE Modes

Press the Select button to access the Main Menu and

then select the IMAGE mode icon (1). Refer to Fig. 5-2.

Choose Thermal IR Image-only mode (2), IGM Custom

mode, (3), IGM Moisture mode (3), Psychrometrics

mode (4), or Moisture-only mode (4). Each mode is

described below.

1. Image mode icon in the Main Menu

2. IR Thermal Image mode only

In the IR mode the meter displays only the IR

Thermal Camera image. See Fig. 5-7

3. IGM Custom mode

In the IGM Custom mode the meter displays the IR Thermal Camera image with

superimposed measurement fields for Moisture, Air Temperature, Relative Humidity,

Dew Point Temperature, Mixing Ratio, and Vapor Pressure. In the Settings menu, the

user can choose which of these parameters to view. See Fig. 5-1(b).

4. IGM Moisure mode

In the IGM Moisture mode the meter displays the IR Thermal Camera Image and the

moisture reading text (upper left hand corner) and the pin or pinless mode icon

(depending on which is currently selected). See Fig. 5-1(a).

Fig. 5-1(c) Moisture-only Mode

Fig. 5-2 Image mode