initial thoughts on fireboard 2

[Murphy's Law]

If I wanted to know the exact temperature of an object and it was reachable, I would get a special probe that has like a little disc at the tip and it would detect an accurate surface temperature.
Sometimes, objects were not reachable due to their high temps (such as molten glass), and with that I had to rely on the IR gun. Luckily molten glass is clean and has a super high emissivity.
IR guns were not as accurate due to the surface emissivity assumption.
See, if the surface is dirty, it throws off your reading.
I would treat the readings as rough and often used them as a validation of my calculations in whatever work I was doing.

I spent many years in the IR world and even thought several classes (I was a Level III). I worked with industrial, weatherization, some light medical, and even security applications. As you noted, most of the applications like high voltage, for example, were a lot safer to take a reading using IR than actual contact!

I really miss that business!

But enough reminiscing and back to Traegering!

 

[RemE]

Bonus points for anyone who can explain emissivity!!!

(In a past life I was a Level III Thermographer FWIW).

Thermography, yeah baby!

Regarding the ThermaPen IR, I would not like to give up the backlight and water proof abilities of the Mk4 classic!