Strictly for amusement only, or maybe not ?
We recently suggested IR imaging of radiators might be a good idea, to offer customers a before and after view of water filled radiators, with the task of power flushing. There are obvious benefits to this. Thanks to one of our visitors we can perhaps now extend the debate.
Our visitor has offered us a link to a world wide organisation committed to the subject of thermography and that provides us with a fascinating insight to the subject. The following text and image is taken from their web site.
[Thermography is the use of an infrared imaging and measurement camera to "see" and "measure" thermal energy emitted from an object. Thermal, or infrared energy, is light that is not visible because its wavelength is too long to be detected by the human eye; it's the part of the electromagnetic spectrum that we perceive as heat. Unlike visible light, in the infrared world, everything with a temperature above absolute zero emits heat. Even very cold objects, like ice cubes, emit infrared. The higher the object's temperature, the greater the IR radiation emitted. Infrared allows us to see what our eyes cannot. Infrared thermography cameras produce images of invisible infrared or "heat" radiation and provide precise non-contact temperature measurement capabilities.]
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