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Understanding Infrared Thermography Reading 3

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A typical speed of response specification would be, for example. "speed of<br />

response (to 95 percent) = 0.05 s.“ It should be understood that there is<br />

always a tradeoff between speed of response and temperature sensitivity.<br />

As in all instrumentation systems, as the speed of response for a particular<br />

device becomes faster (instrumentation engineers call this a wider<br />

information bandwidth) the sensitivity becomes poorer (lower signal- to-noise<br />

ratio). If the speed of response is specified to be faster than is necessary for<br />

the application, the instrument may not have as good a temperature<br />

sensitivity as might be possible otherwise.<br />

Charlie Chong/ Fion Zhang

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