AI6YR Ben
Mark Ingalls
ℵ₀ 🏳️⚧️🏴☠️@ai6yr I love checking stuff out with my thermal camera. I've got an Infiray p2; it performs pretty well for the price point.
@null_aleph It's a surprisingly useful tool, I originally just bought it for one reason (checking for moisture in the walls after a flood), but it's so handy for many other things.
@ai6yr I've used it to check my circulation, as well as that of others. Found hot and cold spots in the house, including a very cold spot that turned out to be a slight crack in the foundation.
@null_aleph Oh yeah, definitely. I insulated the house that way... except one very inaccessible corner, which annoys me a lot.
@ai6yr honestly I wish FLIR imaging was baked into more phones; it's incredibly useful. I picked up a few angle adapters and a few extenders to use with it; only downside was that while it included an adapter, it was a flexi cable type - Useful for some situations but not for most of my use cases.
Bryan Haskin@ai6yr @null_aleph what camera do you have?
John Burns
WOW - 60 C is in the "Don't touch range"...
I'd hate to lean up against that in a cramped compartment or closet.
@JohnJBurnsIII LOL the SDR is "burn your hand hot". I just stuck an altoids tin on top of it to help it with heat disappation, I need to mount all those SDRs on some metal.
Maybe some old CPU cooling fins/fan and thermal paste could be used. Especially if they are mounted in hot low air movement ambient environment.
They are probably designed to work without all that... but cooler operating temps likely would extend lifetime.
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I will keep this in mind as I build out my system.
Taran Rampersad@ai6yr @JohnJBurnsIII when I was running solar in south Trinidad (T&T), I used old chip heat sinks from pcs since I had good air movement. Really good.
@knowprose @JohnJBurnsIII Hmm, I *knew* I should have snagged that old PC out of the e-waste bin yesterday 🤪
(actually, I have a bunch of heat sinks in a box around here, remind me to go snag one. Also have some thermal tape, and will need to clamp them together)
AMS@ai6yr @JohnJBurnsIII 60C is touch-safe. And I'm pretty sure that spec is for ambient temperature, not surface temp. (At work our stuff is rated 50C ambient full rating, 60C ambient derated. I know 60C touch is safe and fine. I think you're allowed 90C surfaces with warning labels.
@ai6yr 3.8A is where the money is. The rest is just delivery. 🙃