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Flir - Thermal imaging
« on: September 20, 2020, 01:29:09 AM »
Does anyone have any experience with Flir? Looking for any info.- good or bad would be appreciated!
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Re: Flir - Thermal imaging
« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2020, 09:17:43 AM »
I used to work for flir and only got a limited amount of exposure to the thermal imaging products. Primarily supported laser designator and laser range finding products for their large gimble systems. I did check out a couple different thermal monoculars though. Their newer products are pretty awesome especially the higher end stuff.


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Re: Flir - Thermal imaging
« Reply #2 on: September 20, 2020, 10:06:09 AM »
I'd say number one in the industry.  Most all Fire Departments use them.
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Re: Flir - Thermal imaging
« Reply #3 on: September 20, 2020, 10:40:49 AM »
Military has loved FLIR but most of their civilian products cost a lot of $$$$'s.

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Re: Flir - Thermal imaging
« Reply #4 on: September 20, 2020, 10:51:35 AM »
Does anyone have any experience with Flir? Looking for any info.- good or bad would be appreciated!
Thanks,
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Re: Flir - Thermal imaging
« Reply #5 on: September 23, 2020, 02:07:21 AM »
I use one daily for work and would not use another brand. Hands down the leader in the industry.

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Re: Flir - Thermal imaging
« Reply #6 on: September 23, 2020, 07:15:09 AM »
took a class/tour at the Billrica Mass. location many years ago with military. Great stuff but as said, you get what you pay for. military grade stuff is $pendy and not in play. IR is wonderful and adjustability/ temp sensitivity is awesome on the "good stuff". you would be surprised at this technology used behind the magic curtains... for a coyote night scope, they would work well, even blood trail tracking with any temp delta (still warmer than surrounding/ground). full disclosure, i have not used the civilian sold scopes but have used some of the hand held devices for work environments. great stuff...
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Re: Flir - Thermal imaging
« Reply #7 on: September 24, 2020, 02:38:53 PM »
Rec'd the Flir Scout 640... so far it looks like it is going to work real well.... taking it out tonight, after charging last night looked good around the house....
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Re: Flir - Thermal imaging
« Reply #8 on: October 09, 2020, 04:21:49 PM »
My wife uses on on her cell phone to look at her bee hives. Unbelievable. We can see the neighbors Cows at over 300 yds super easy to use. Download the App and plug it in.

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Re: Flir - Thermal imaging
« Reply #9 on: January 08, 2021, 09:55:12 AM »
All I can say is I hope you dont like sleeping. Had mine since August and my wife is about over it. Lol
More to the point. I have the pulsar trail xplrf. It is really quite awesome. Works day or night. Can see hot stuff at a mile.

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Re: Flir - Thermal imaging
« Reply #10 on: January 08, 2021, 10:43:23 AM »
Sounds like the closest you might get to the "Hot Stuff" is a mile if you don't change your ways.

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Re: Flir - Thermal imaging
« Reply #11 on: January 08, 2021, 12:42:40 PM »
We had a FLIR scope when I was in the fire department.   Used it to find hot spots after structure fires, and underground after a wildland fire.  Worked great.

I heard Teledyne bought them out last week for something like 8 billion.
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Re: Flir - Thermal imaging
« Reply #12 on: January 08, 2021, 03:04:48 PM »
I have a fair amount of experience with infrared. I have a couple professional certifications and have a flir scientific grade camera I used for building consulting. What do you want to do?

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Re: Flir - Thermal imaging
« Reply #13 on: March 12, 2021, 09:01:04 AM »
Never looked through a flir, but pulsar is pretty awesome. I have a pulsar spotter, atn NV scope

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Re: Flir - Thermal imaging
« Reply #14 on: March 12, 2021, 09:34:47 AM »
We had one at work and I think everyone at one point or another took it home to check for house heat leakage. Kind of disappointing to see how much gets out.
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