Thermal Imaging Camera

Aljoke

Can anybody Please tell me where I can Rent a Thermal Imaging Camera in the Galway City Area. Thanks in advance

?Cee?view

Apologies in advance, and I haven't a clue where you'd reny one, but what in the name of God would you want a thermal imaging camera for?...if you don't mind me asking

swe_fi

Aljoke wrote: »

Can anybody Please tell me where I can Rent a Thermal Imaging Camera in the Galway City Area. Thanks in advance

I would try a company that specializes in Cooling / Heating / Insulation, i'm pretty sure they will be able to tell you where you can get one anyway. We actually have one but not sure if we rent it out.

biko

Not sure if you can rent but there is a crowd in Meath.

King Mallie

I know that engineers who snag houses for builders all have one. I'm sure that any of them would defo rent it to you for a few days. If ya check yellow pages you get some engineers that can help ya.

mossfort

Aljoke wrote: »

Can anybody Please tell me where I can Rent a Thermal Imaging Camera in the Galway City Area. Thanks in advance

hss hire on the tuam rd have an infra red camera they hire out.
the minimum hire is 3 days but i dont know what it costs.

http://www.build.ie/company_491675.htm

Aljoke

Thanks to everyone for your advise much appreciated.

mchammer

pat kyne leak detection (based in tuam) has one and charge about 80-100squid for a visit. It cost him over 10k so don't think he'll let you have it.. I saw it in action trying to find a leak in central heating and it was able to pick up central heating pipes in concrete floor with timber flooring already laid on top of it - i think it is sensitive to changes in temp of about .01Celsius. PM me if you want his no.

Aljoke

In answer to churchview's question, I use it to take a thermal image of the external walls of a house from the outside for example and it will show up hot spots which indicates that the dwelling is losing heat through the external walls at that location, which might be due to a badly insulated cavity for example.

If you were getting your cavity wall filled it would be a good way of telling if the job is done correctly or not by taking a before an after image, you can then tell the contractor where the cavity needs more fill from the Thermal Image

?Cee?view

Thanks Aljoke,

I've an oldish house which had it's cavity filled with a pumped insulation in the 70s. You've explained to me how to check if there are spots that need renewing.

Much appreciated.

Aljoke

Well Glad to be of help and anybody that is thinking of getting there cavity walls filled should have a before and after Thermal Image done for peace of mind that the job was carried out correctly

ScumLord

If you learn how to talk to snakes you could just get one of them to have a look at it for you.

spender.j

ScumLord wrote: »

If you learn how to talk to snakes you could just get one of them to have a look at it for you.

Anyone got a number for Harry potter?

mchammer

mchammer wrote: »

pat kyne leak detection (based in tuam) has one and charge about 80-100squid for a visit. It cost him over 10k so don't think he'll let you have it.. I saw it in action trying to find a leak in central heating and it was able to pick up central heating pipes in concrete floor with timber flooring already laid on top of it - i think it is sensitive to changes in temp of about .01Celsius. PM me if you want his no.

link to website if interested...
http://www.kingenergy.ie/contact_us.html

Diom

Depending on how regulated your industry is, you can make infra-red cameras extremely easily using a cheap web cam and an IR filter. IF you are simply using it as a tool to look for heat leaks (relative to the rest of the building or whatever) then this could be all you need. It would cost about €30 to make one.

mchammer

Diom wrote: »

Depending on how regulated your industry is, you can make infra-red cameras extremely easily using a cheap web cam and an IR filter. IF you are simply using it as a tool to look for heat leaks (relative to the rest of the building or whatever) then this could be all you need. It would cost about €30 to make one.

any details on that - would be interested to sensitive to heat changes it could be....

Diom

mchammer wrote: »

any details on that - would be interested to sensitive to heat changes it could be....

Tons of stuff out there on it.
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A friend of mine built a head tracking unit using a modified webcam.