Heatsinks are mostly bare aluminium and that acts like a mirror for IR light. So, no, he has to touch them to figure out how hot they are.

@@erikziak1249 no he can use some black paste or stick some black tape so the thermal camera to see the temperature

@@ayyadew Correct. But that would interfere with the ability of the heatsink to cool the part that is attached to it.

touched a heatsink once and got the weirdest shock of my life.

@@1marcelfilms Don't touch live heatsinks! Especially when working in a switch mode power supply, assume all heatsinks are live until proven otherwise.

Cheaper and higher resolution

@@alexpaciniat Yeah i have seek thermal compact , this is cheaper , has a little more pixels but the greatest difference is the framerate , seek thermal being a 3-7 fps slideshow . Anyway both are very useful

Thanks ;) I will avoid sun and too hot things. I mostly need it for circuitboards anyway...

Still USD 320 😮.

Big Clive just bought a phone with the same sensor.

Yes that is a nice idea. Maybe you can get something for a raspberry pi.

Cats cannot cool themselves with their tongues and cannot sweat. Their ears serve as a cooler. It was also confirmed that the coldest place on a dog is its snout.

@@Georgy-fg3bg I definitely seen the snout thing in action in the video.

@@Georgy-fg3bg Evaporative cooling.

@@catalinbadalan4463 Rather radiative and convective. The normal temperature of a cat is 37.5 - 39°C. Cats cool down by breathing faster with their mouths open. During this, water evaporates on the tongue and in the oral cavity. Cat ears can also dissipate heat. Sweat glands are found in cats only in the area of ​​the mouth, on the anus, around the teats and especially on the pads of the paws.

maybe its just the emissivity difference of the paint?

The paint is shiny, so it radiates less.

I would say they are getting affordable, starting with $200. Maybe not to buy for no reason, but if you need it

Like your avatar:)

That is actually what I try to do now. Yes it is possible.

I think it's usable without it. The resolution is enough to figure out what you're looking at. And of course, for macros, the overlay wouldn't work anyway, the offset would be far too big when used up close.

I actually prefer this comparing to forced (no option to turn it off) overlay on lower cost flir cameras

it does warn you about filming very hot things, got the warning by accident when it malfunctioned in my phone lol

Hint: Burn protection = ON

@@catalinbadalan4463 thx Captain obvious! Oh no a big meteor is going to hit Earth and kill us all! Don't worry, I have an app on my phone with the "save Mankind"=On... Seriously, what does that option do? How effective is it? What's the difference if it's off? Allowing to turn it off is a proof that it probably has some drawbacks and if you don't need it, it's better to turn it off. Usually there's a shutter that is activated regularly to close the it camera to have a known uniform temperature in front of it. This way you can compensate for errors. Maybe it's activated more often if the hottest point is too high to let that area of the sensor cool down. And maybe if it's too hot, close it most of the time to avoid any damage. But that's speculation from me. Does the manufacturer give any information on that?

This is typical for a shorted load connected to the output or some secondary side capacitor, diode or so shorted in the smps

@@DiodeGoneWild In secondary side 1000 micro 50v cap become hot. I checked every thing around that but I don't find shorty. There are not output voltages to the main board. Filament of the test lamp is glowing on off on off... with tick tack sound in smps.

Well... Digital thermal cameras are probably more than 20 years old by now but they still expensive af. Don't expect it to go down in price anytime soon.

what's the price please?

@@asam982 There is a link for it on the video description

"Let's put some fun Chinglish on the packaging to give the KZfaqrs something to talk about"

Right? Touching the temperature is kind of the exact opposite of what it actually does. Haha

You can almost smell the rays..

No. It recorded videos with no problem. The problem might be in your phone...

@@DiodeGoneWild hmmm. Very strange. It's not my phone, I'm sure of that. I downloaded another app (TOPDON) - the camera works perfectly with it and videos record correctly

To blend the images, the cameras need to be literally on top of each other. In this the cameras are very wide apart, and the software has no way of knowing what zoom field of view, etc the phone camera is using.

I never tried, but probably not. It's not intended for it.

@@DiodeGoneWild I made an app for it. Works on PC and RPi. But can't mention it, the YT bot keeps deleting my messages.

Find it with my same nickname "Where the world builds software". Let's see if this message is not deleted.

@@yomboprime Awesome, dude.

I don't think there is ANY thermal camera/app out there that doesn't try to mimic Predator vision..

He's also visible on Instagram.

Money. The sensor in this unit is considered high-res!