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Understanding Infrared Thermography Reading 7 Part 2 of 2.pdf

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Emissivity: Understand the difference between<br />

apparent and actual IR temperatures<br />

Taking infrared temperature measurements is certainly a lot easier than it<br />

used to be. The tricky part is understanding when an infrared reading is<br />

accurate as is and when you need to account for certain properties <strong>of</strong> the<br />

materials you’re measuring, or for other things like heat transfer.<br />

The most common use <strong>of</strong> infrared temperature measurement is for the<br />

inspection <strong>of</strong> electrical power distribution equipment. Let’s look at a typical<br />

three-phase fused power disconnect (Figure 1) and the corresponding<br />

infrared image (Figure IR1) below.<br />

Charlie Chong/ Fion Zhang<br />

http://reliableplant.com/Read/14134/emissivity-underst-difference-between-apparent,-actual-ir-temps

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