Anything else I should check?
Used to have one of these too.
not what I expected to see in the comments of this post
On the contrary, this is exactly what I expected to see in the comments of this post.
How about that? Did you expect a hamster in infrared?
No.
Nobody ever does…
…sigh.
That hampter is runnin oh boi
Just because nobody asked:
Actually I was just about to
That’s some hot ass pussy!
Love that curious raised ear. Did you also measure how much of a good boy they are?
“3.8 goodboyes, but that’s as high as the meter go…”
“3.8, not great, not terrible.”
Later…
“It’s not 3 goodboyes, it’s fifteen thousand.”
Dog always gets that expression when the beardy dude that lives with him has one of his strange ideas, like in this case waving a blue box with a handle around. Makes no sense at all, but, humans, y’know.
He is the best boy, of course, no need to measure that. But I verified the low snoot temperature with a snoot boop.
But I verified the low snoot temperature with a snoot boop.
I find your methodology intriguing. It merits a thorough peer review. Is anyone willing to boop their pupper snoot and report back on their findings? For science, of course.
So this snoot is not measured with infrared so I can’t confirm the temperature that way however upon booping the snoot I can in fact confirm it was cool and moist.
Fascinating
None of these cameras measure things in Kelvin, the only temperature scale that matters. Disappointing.
They do actually, it’s just that they convert it to Celsius right before displaying the value on the screen
It doesn’t count if you can’t see it!
Kelvin is the only legitimate way to measure temperature. Everything else is trivia. Duh.
Edit: I don’t have time for your downvotes. It’s 277 degrees outside and I don’t have a clean sweater.
You mean you don’t use an anglometer to measure degrees?
You are actually upvoted, it’s just shown in Celsiusvotes.
I should have realized!
ROFL!
277 degrees? RIP
277 kelvin would be a nice temperature tho
I just said Kelvin was the only legitimate way to measure temperature. Of course 277 degrees Kelvin.
I was making a joke, if a pedantic one. You don’t measure Kelvin in degrees, it’s not °K, it’s just K. So 4 degrees Celsius is 277 kelvin.
Ohh two can play that game, your cited resolution has been superseded in 1967~
https://www.bipm.org/en/committees/cg/cgpm/13-1967/resolution-4
Edit: and for extra pedantry, the unit is spelled lowercase, the temperature scale uppercase c:
I have a phone with a thermal imager too!
I mostly use it to brag to people about how I have a phone with a thermal imager!
But here is a demonstration that glass will reflect a bit of thermal radiation, but is completely opaque to thermal behind it:
As long as you aren’t touching the glass, wherein the glass will conduct your thermal signature:
And then if you take the hand away, the signature remains on the glass for several minutes!
As a bonus, my phone also has a microscope, and I learned that my facial hair is sometimes triangular:
Ooh that’s pretty rad!
what phone is this?
Ulefone Armour 27T pro.
You can even skip some gym days because the bugger weighs half a kilo.
I thought I’d need to skip the gym because all my money would go to the phone, but it seems relatively priceworthy.
The hardware is great but the OS is shit and buggy. Don’t buy Ulefone unless you’re an android expert and know how to force shitty system apps into submission.
That’s sad to hear. It looks like a pretty good phone otherwise.
Looking for a phone with this, a Geiger counter, and a light spectrum analyzer
Also a hardware keyboard, headphone jack, and runs Linux
Ok so you want a cyberdeck
It also needs to be under $50
If I’m paying a subscription fee over 10 bucks a month the carrier should subsidize the cost
And it must have absolute privacy. Run everything on the phone like a phone carrier and server combined.
That office has headphone jack and 2 sim slots, and some physical buttons for using the phone when it’s wet or under water, oh and a laser level, etc
How hot is your toilet water please.
Are you sure you’re dull? This is thrilling
Most exciting thing I’ve done since reorganizing my sock drawer!
Can you measure the sock drawer?
Is the sock drawer the same temperature as the toilet water? Logically I would think so, but a weird part of me is saying the toilet water would be colder for some reason.
Wet feels cold, it’s a law of nature
Socks are also warm and cozy, that’s gotta count for something.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Equilibrium is restored.
Cool
Before and after the deed
An important aspect to specify. Good thinking!
Science!
Check where the heat loss is occurring in your house.
For fucks sake
I can’t believe you’ve done this
Is this loss?
I’m so sorry for your heat :(
This post has been stellar.
what the fuck lol
I don’t get it. What is that?
Edit: For those that don’t know, they are referencing a meme . If you don’t know the meme, you probably won’t find it funny.
thanks!
Look up “loss webcomic”
Well lost, man, well lost.
You can’t not say what phone has FLIR. Need details please! lol
There was a discontinued (and discounted) CAT phone I was looking at a while back. The phone itself was mostly unimpressive, but it did have a decent FLIR camera which is why I was looking at it.
Ah sorry, it’s a second hand CAT s62
Okay, nice. So it is the same one I was looking at. Cool, but “bummer” at the same time. Was hoping there was a current/supported model with FLIR.
I know it’s not the same thing, but there is an external Flir camera that you can attach to your phone by USB-C.
What phone?!
Sorry for the Amazon link, but CAT no longer makes phones as of April 2024 so I can’t link to their website (which no longer exists):
It’s the S62 Rugged smartphone. https://www.amazon.com/CAT-PHONES-S62-Rugged-Smartphone/dp/B08YR66D1H
There’s a few models with thermal cameras, my doogee gt31v has one. I think ulefone and unihertz have models with them.
Don’t expect software updates.
Now, this technology is new to me, but I believe that’s Homer Simpson in the oven, rotating slowly. His body temperature has risen to 400 degrees. He’s literally stewing in his own juices!
d’oh
I’m so glad I don’t have one. I can’t imagine the amount of time I’d waste play acting splinter cell.
too bad they never released a game after chaos theory.
Do you own any “Hot Wheels” toy cars? If so, how hot actually are those wheels?
In the absence of “Hot Wheels” toy cars, I’d also be interested in other objects which claim to be hot, but likely aren’t i.e. a “Hot Topic” clothing item, or bottle of “Hot Sauce”.
No wheels or topics here, but a whole collection of hot sauces straight from the fridge
A drop of Tha Bomb: Beyond Insanity on a plate also looks quite disappointing
However, put some of that straight into my mouth and let me tell you, I’m in a world of regrets right now.
Thank you for your service to our entertainment
I think I need an FLIR camera now lol
Brilliant, thank you :)
Go around the house and look at all your outlets. You’ll find that GFCI outlets put out a small amount of heat. (Something to do with their function that is unavoidable.) Regular outlets that are warm and under no load may require investigation.
You can also spot heating conduits in walls, roughly figure out what power adapters are not very efficient, and even use them to gauge how well heated blankets and the like are working. I used mine to look at studs in the wall to figure out (well, be certain about) how some old renovations were handled.you can sometimes use these as a stud finder, depends on the wall
If you ever do electronics repair and are good at soldering these are a lifesaver for quick diagnosis if the resolution is high enough. Look at the board, apply power, and the part that is shorting out will often quickly get stupid hot. Sometimes it will be a complex repair you can’t easily do like a bga chip but you’d be surprised how often it’s just a random capacitor that went bad in your phone or switch or whatever and swapping it out (or even just getting rid of it if it’s an extra filter) fixes the issue. The hard part is finding out the value bc there are never schematics
A less easy to use alternative to this that I use bc thermal cams are expensive is squirt isopropyl alcohol or flux on the board and apply power. It’ll boil at the point where the part is shorting. Harder to determine but much cheaper. If you already have the camera though
My go to is to upside-down spray canned air at the PCB. once the canned air boils off, it leaves a layer of frost and you can immediately tell what is hot because it melts the frost.
That’s a good one, I will add that to the repertoire
My house is entirely made out of brick, I doubt it’ll be very effective here but I’ll definitely check
I don’t think a brick house has studs
This was an educational rabbit hole to go down.
It seems not all brick houses have wall studs, but most do.
It makes sense to me to have studs to help run utilities (electrical, air ducts, etc) and for hanging drywall.
but most do.
Never seen a brick house that has studs around here. Most houses around here are built like this:
Concrete floors/ceilings, bricks in between, utilities get carved into the brickwall and are covered when the inside plaster is applied. The inside plaster is usually made up from two or three layers and is around 3cm thick.
What country is that?
Germany.
Unfortunately I can’t see the image. But I understand what you’re saying.
Oh, right, have some JPEG then:
Studs, in the UK at least, create a gap between the brick wall and the plasterboard this is often filled with insulation and it’s where electrical cables and pipework can run.
The insulation is usually applied on the outside of the building so the protected volume is more homogeneous, avoiding cold bridges where walls/ceilings join, cause that’s where mould tends to grow
In all the new build houses I’ve worked on the insulation is on the inside, in the UK at least. Though it’s been at least 10 years since I’ve been on site.
Also usually external insulation is quite visible and I still see lots of domestic properties with bare external brickwork.
That’s interesting. In Germany and Belgium many renovations involve putting insulation (PUR blocks often) on outside of the building and also for new buildings it’s usually outside insulated and then an outside layer that protects the insulation. Inside insulation happens, but it’s considered less good than outside, because of leaks and they say outside insulating helps the bricks/concrete “save” the heat like a battery when they are part of the protected volume instead of outside of it.
In newer houses yes. In older ones… Well let’s just say I’m getting tired of carving channels into solid red brick whenever I do electrics.
Coolest thing to look at is running tap water, switch from hot to cold
Totally random thought, but check the temp of different things both directly, and also in a mirror reflection. I wonder if it’ll sense the same temperature via a mirror reflection…
Works great!
If you actually want to measure a glass surface, stick a bit of painters tape or other tape with a rough-ish surface to it.
Cool! Or, warm, I guess I should say… 👍
I definitely noticed some objects like a coke can reflecting heat from nearby sources. Let me check my mirror
Fun fact: the heat measured is just infrared light, which tell you the objects temperature with the principles of Black Body Radiation, so if an object is reflective, it most likely also reflects infrared and you will see the reflected objects temperature.
If your first thought was “wait, infrared like tv remotes?” Yes! Point the tv remote at your camera to see how “hot” it gets (it’s not hot but it’s sending a lot of infrared through other means)
It is pretty much like taking a normal picture of a mirror.
