Thermal Stuff

1928A1 · Post by **1928A1** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 8:40 pm

Anybody into thermal here or have access to thermal handhelds? I am thinking of getting one.

Debo18 · Post by **Debo18** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 4:19 pm

Yes. We use them at the fire station. Bullards and some other brand. The small ones are nice and light and compact but seem to be hard to read in a fire. The red bullards are nice in that they are easy to use but are a little heavier and bulkier, like a big boxlight. Either one is useless if it is too smoky, hot, or too covered with soot to see. Sometimes in a fire you can have them almost touching your mask and can't make anything out because of the soot/smoke. The cool part is having the transmitter so that the command post can monitor what you see inside. Supposed to work to a few hundred yards.

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Artful · Post by **Artful** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 5:23 pm

Debo18 wrote:Yes. We use them at the fire station. Bullards and some other brand. The small ones are nice and light and compact but seem to be hard to read in a fire. The red bullards are nice in that they are easy to use but are a little heavier and bulkier, like a big boxlight. Either one is useless if it is too smoky, hot, or too covered with soot to see. Sometimes in a fire you can have them almost touching your mask and can't make anything out because of the soot/smoke. The cool part is having the transmitter so that the command post can monitor what you see inside. Supposed to work to a few hundred yards.

Debo

So you can't see what's on the screen but they can see something at the command post? Wouldn't the soot kept it from getting a picture of anything as well? - If works couldn't they up a HUD inside the mask they you could still see from the transmitted signal?

Debo18 · Post by **Debo18** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 9:52 pm

If works couldn't they up a HUD inside the mask they you could still see from the transmitted signal?

I suppose so. There is not a whole lot of room in those masks. FWIW, if you can't see with your eyes, can't see with a flashlight, and can't see with a TIC (Thermal Imaging Camera) , then we probably shouldn't be in there anyway. In the fire that I referenced, we shouldn't have been in there in the first place (hindsight).

I think that 1928 was talking about stuff like this anyway----

http://www.snipershide.com/ubb/ultimate ... 1;t=004960

ak · Post by ak » Mon May 22, 2006 5:05 pm

I have good one what do you wont to know ?

renegade · Post by **renegade** » Mon May 22, 2006 6:54 pm

Which one? They are not cheap, but for hand-held units, the Raytheon X100XP is nice ($7400).

ak · Post by ak » Wed May 24, 2006 11:26 pm

renegade wrote:Which one? They are not cheap, but for hand-held units, the Raytheon X100XP is nice ($7400).

If you ask me the Raytheon X100XP is not that good of device and not going to give you special advantage unless its special station
I have PhantomIR it was the last of the 2005 models the later models had sacrificed preference to lower the price (for the manufacturer you get only 500 less)
http://idr.janes.com/public/adlink/ads/ ... 'PhantomIR'

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