FLIR TG267 Thermal Imaging Camera with Bullseye Laser: Commercial Grade Infrared Camera for Building Inspection, HVAC and Electrical

Great item, highly recommended, good value for money

I bought this to do some science in the testing of a project I am working on.It is also useful for various DIY tasks such as seeing where joists are behind plasterboard and seeing where drafts are coming from (e.g. where a door seal may need replacing).It will even clearly show you whether a device is on and in standby, rather than completely switched off. Even low power devices raise the temperature enough such that they glow clearly against the background!Do not be fooled by superficially similar devices that might be cheaper. This shows you the visible edges of things in the field of view, to help identify where you are pointing at. Most other devices of this type just show you a blurry field of colours, and it is hard to pinpoint what you are lookng at (measuring from).Oh, and I almost forgot: this device has a rubberised outer case, and really feels rugged.

The flir phone usb model is useless but this works which is already progress. The image is good but no instructions on how to diagnose common issues. Flir sell that separately. You tube and a few other sites have helped. Great at showing the hot pipes. I now know where we are missing cavity and loft insulation from inside and where we are losing heat from the outside. Key thing is to use when there is a 20 degree difference from inside to out. Stand a metre away slowly move side to side. Look at the temperatures, only use the colours to give you an idea where to get a temperature. Don't expect even after insulating, that condensation will disappear from your house. If you generate a litre of water in condensation from breathing, cooking, washing, drying it will be in your house until it's mopped up, collected up in a dehumidifier or let out the window/vents. Fixing the insulation will simply stop you loosing heat and cool your home in summer. Saving you money. Condensation will move from the cold spot on your walls to the next coldest place - your windows - until it finally escapes or is cleaned up. If it's not cleaned up, with the help of a bit of oxygen and energy (dust) your get mold growing 😞.

This is a brilliant piece of kit.As a motor mechanic I use this for many aspects of diagnostic work.A major tool company well known in the motor trade sell a product that is £1000 and no where near as good as this product.

I was disappointed with this. Nicely built piece of kit and the accessories all felt decent quality.What you can see is a thermal map, laid over a well-publicised normal image. There's one measurement, a spot in the middle. For me the normal video did little to improve the image. What I felt was critical was to know what the thermal map meant, apart from 'this bit's hot and this cold'. The thermal map helps you locate hot spots of course, but because the resolution is limited ( as it is with other devices I appreciate ) and the alignment of the thermal spot camera and the image is not perfect, it is very hard, maybe impossible, to judge the actual temperature. I measured something like 40 deg C but then nearly burnt my finger when investigating the 'good old way'. If I moved the camera around and I could obtain a reading that seemed to be representative but that's not really what I was expecting from nearly £500 worth of kit. This might be of use in the case illustrated of something at a distance using the LASER as a guide but for the smaller areas - I will generally use it on a circuit board - I found it wanting. I bought a much cheaper device, not as well built by any means, but it has a max and min temperature within the thermal map plus a spot temperature which works much better for me.Thanks to Amazon for dealing with the return of this so smoothly.

It was not even brand new and did not turn on when I received it

This is a pretty intuitive tool - meaning I could use it straight out of the box without spending an hour reading the instructions first. But that's also the problem - there are no detailed instructions, probably because the functionality is pretty basic.I wanted a camera that could tell me where my house was leaking heat. From doing a bit of research online, I knew that it was important for the outside temperature to be in single digits and for the inside temp to be significanly higher so I cooked my entire house up for hours on a cold evening before testing this. While the camera was showing up the underfloor heating coils quite nicely, identified older double glazing from new and showed what appeared to be areas that were colder than others inside the house.But when I stepped outside, the entire house was a solid bright orange as seen in the picture. Zero distinction between different areas of the house, what was more confusing was the fact that the trees were also the same colour / temperature.So this suggests that my house is either letting all of the heat out or none - neither of which I know to be true. I think this device is perfectly capable of doing the indoor stuff and probably great for the electrics application but it sadly wasn't doing what I needed it to do. I was hoping I could avoid having to fork out a thousand pounds for one of the higher end ones but it seems that's the only option. Paying someone (who knows what they're doing) for a survey suddenly does not seem that expensive any more.

Battery fault out the box - turns out the manufacturer is known for these problems.