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Subject: [OM] Re: IR film to discover heat losses?
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 10:42:31 -0500
Thanks but if it's only sensitive to 3000K how does it image anything in 
the normal world?

Chuck Norcutt

Ralf Loi wrote:
> <<
>> Can IR film help me here?  I've never had any desire to use IR film for
>> anything but have considered that it might point out the egress points
>> if not the ingress points.  But maybe it's totally impractical. Or maybe
>> it can only show how successful I might have been in plugging holes
>> found the hard way by showing before and after shots.
> 
> I very much doubt it. Normal IR film is sensitive to wavelengths just
> below visible, which is a long way from household temperature thermal
> radiation.
> 
> That's right. Normal IR film is sensitive up to around 1 micron, and that
> wavelenght is the peak for a blackbody of around 3000 degree Kelvin.
> The house should be in the range of 300 degree K, so you need to see in
> the range of 10 micron. For reference, visible light is from 0.4 to 0.8
> micron.
> 
> Ralf Loi

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