Re: G-08 rebuild kit potential BOM

I was wondering if one could make a relatively inexpensive IR camera by
using a Peltier cooler connected to a CCD element with an IR filter on
the lens... As earlier design IR cameras needed to be cool to work,
perhaps this would accomplish the goal?

John :-#)#

Clickerdingers wrote:
> Clay,
>
> Here's a link to the data sheet PDF:
>
> http://www.extech.com/instrument/products/alpha/datasheets/IRC40data.pdf
>
> It states the Field of view is 17 deg. X 17 deg. and the min. focus
> distance is 0.6m (2 ft.)
>
> The $2995 price that John Robertson found is also what I came up
> with.....it's under the $3K pain threshold but not by much!
>
> Mark
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Clay Cowgill <mailto:c.cowgill@comcast.net>
> *To:* vectorlist@vectorlist.org <mailto:vectorlist@vectorlist.org>
> *Sent:* Saturday, July 26, 2008 2:50 PM
> *Subject:* RE: VECTOR: G-08 rebuild kit potential BOM
>
> > http://www.extech.com/instrument/products/alpha/IRC40.html
> > Don't know if this will help but thought you might want to check
> it out.
>
> Thanks Mark!
>
> I hadn't seen that one before-- I was originally looking at the
> bigger brother (the InfraCAM SD), but they always seem to be
> >$5K. The downside with the i5 would appear to be the 80x80 pixel
> resolution for the imaging array. (the InfraCAM is 80x160)
>
> I wonder what the minimum focal distance is... If I can get a few
> inches field of view that's probably good enough. Thanks for the
> pointer!
>
> -Clay
>

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