In case anyone here is interested:

For Sale:
Extech / Flir IRC57-B List price new $3995.
This is a discontinued item, but has more features than the replacement B-40 which lists for $4995.
I bought this camera for some quality inspection testing, it did not work for my application, so I want to sell it instead of it gathering dust on my shelf!
Only used 1 or 2 hours total!
Includes camera, case, charger, software, manual.
Will include shipping to the continental US free of charge.
I can accept Visa/Mastercard, money order for payment.

PM me - email lornic at gmail dot com - call (six one six) five nine four - zero three five five

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Nick Hahn
Lornic Design

Specializing in pork harvesting equipment.

"The Standard Deviation of the Sampling Distribution of the Sample Mean ! " ( My wife's favorite statistics phrase! )

Nick,
Would this camera work for applications like examining a circuit board for thermal issues/overheating small components. We are looking for a thermal camera to work along with our in house testing of our designs. Currently we place thermocouples on the parts/traces/areas we "feel" should be the hottest. But wanted a thermal camera to take a quick shot to confirm our "educated" placement guesses.
We just started looking and wasn't sure if these "less expensive" cameras could provide enough detail/resolution for smaller parts (like 2" x 4" area or so)

I think it would work well for that.
Resolution is 120 x 120 pixels, so you could measuring down to an area of around 0.040" x 0.040".
It does a great job at showing thermal differences - I was hoping to measure actual temperatures between processes in different plants - there were just too many variables that could not be controlled in each plant to be able to do this though.

You could probably get good actual temperatures as long as the parts were "temperature stable" and they were being checked in the same place to avoid inconsistent reflected thermal radiation.

About the only feature it does not have that the newer models have is "picture in picture" where you can get both a visual and thermal picture at the same time. ( I had no need for this - I would guess that you wouldn't really need it either. )

You can download the spec sheet here: IRC57-B Spec

I would be wiling to let you try it before you buy it if you are interested.

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Nick Hahn
Lornic Design

Specializing in pork harvesting equipment.

"The Standard Deviation of the Sampling Distribution of the Sample Mean ! " ( My wife's favorite statistics phrase! )