Category: Thermal Imaging

By systematically taking and storing thermal images of data center equipment, you can ensure that data storage remains safe, secure, and accessible. Since data is crucial to most organizations’ operations, it must be preserved, protected and accessible at all times. Periodic inspections of data centers are very important to ensuring the reliability, continuity and sustainability of...

With the growing concern about mold damage and associated health problems, inspectors are becoming increasingly vigilant in checking for areas of moisture within the confines of the building envelope. Weather-related damage and flooding, and subsequent mold growth, have also escalated the need for tools that can facilitate fast and accurate moisture investigations. There are a...

Like photographic cameras out of the market, infrared cameras and thermal cameras, (collectively called thermal imagers) require good focus for the best output. The output directly affects your analysis and decision making. It’s not just aesthetics at stake here. An infrared image that is out of focus is likely to display bad temperature calculation data...

Portable thermography in automated process environments Automation often provides significant advantages in today’s competitive environment; in some industries, it’s practically a requirement to stay in business. Unfortunately, human beings have yet to create a machine or system that operates perfectly at all times. All automated systems will need maintenance at one time or another. The...

We live in a home that was built in the 1950s, with a conventional fireplace that has been problematic over the years due to poor draft, leading to smoke in the living room from time to time. Because of some of the problems, we installed glass doors and experimented with various grates and gadgets using...

Infrared Solutions, Inc., a Fluke Company, has developed a new infrared technology called IR-Fusion™ that blends, pixel for pixel, visible and infrared images on a single display. This article describes the patent-pending, novel, low-cost approach to solving the parallax problem of combining images from separate visible and infrared optics.   Background There are many reasons...

Getting to the root of the problem Ensuring that a soon-to-be-launched prototype printer works without any hiccups when it reaches consumer hands is an already daunting task. But when you’re doing this for the world’s largest printer manufacturer, the task takes on an entirely different magnitude. One day, during a regular functionality and proof of...

Electricians and technicians are often faced with the challenge to quickly locate and troubleshoot faulty equipment with the tools at hand. For years that has meant a digital multimeter and maybe a thermal imager, also known as an infrared camera. But for many facilities thermal imagers are a shared tool and not always available when...

Just over 200 years ago, the famed British composer and astronomer Sir William Herschel discovered infrared (IR) radiation. Today, test tools using Herschel’s infrared discovery enable technicians in many fields—electricians; plant technicians; heating, ventilation and plumbing contractors; and automotive technicians—to detect and fix problems otherwise invisible. Now a new innovation, the Fluke VT02 Visual Thermometer—developed...

Benco Dental is the largest independent, family owned dental distributor in the United States, with more than 1,200 associates serving over 30,000 customers with locations across the U.S. It distributes equipment and supplies from all major dental equipment manufacturers, and provides design and maintenance services. One of its core values is to give back to...