Re: An unusual Oscilloscope phenomenon

On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:09:17 -0700, Joerg <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

John Larkin wrote:
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:32:33 -0700, Joerg <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

John Larkin wrote:

[...]

Fairly recently we got a good spectrum analyzer and a thermal infrared
imager. I don't know how I ever lived without them.

I can understand the excitement about your FLIR imager, would love to
have one. You could probably open up a lucrative non-electronics side
business, "Larkin's Energy Audit Services LLC" or something like that.

FLIR just bought Extech, and they have a new low-end imager. I don't
know the price.

http://www.extech.com/cameras/


Quote "Extech is now making FLIR cameras available in the USA only
through its network of leading distributors." Sentences like that
usually mean $$$$.

Last year I worked on a couple of cameras for the Navy. My main job
was a 500x500ish color camera but its mate was a 512x512 FLIR. The
Xilinx FPGA in each camera was $3800, which I thought was a bit much
for a TV camera, until they told me that each of the three CCDs was
$5K and the prism was $40K. A year ago, this week in fact,
interviewed for a job at Cincinnati Electronics designing FLIR
cameras. They were doing 4096x4096 FLIR cameras.

Waiting for that Harborfreight infrared camera ... :-)

;-)

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