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Permalink Reply by Darryl Coffey on August 2, 2010 at 2:43am

We do have an alternative that you can build up from the engine core please visit

http://www.premierelect.co.uk/thermal%20imaging.html

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Permalink Reply by Darryl Coffey on August 2, 2010 at 2:46am

We do have a range of thermal imaging cameras that are not ITAR controlled which you can build from the core engine up to meet you requirements. Very powerful features are built in to give great flexibility.

Visit http://www.premierelect.co.uk/thermal%20imaging.html

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Permalink Reply by Neil Baker on August 2, 2010 at 6:57am

COMPACT EYE™ Low-Power Compact Infrared Engine
Just wondering what does one of these run $(ballpark) with basic optics.

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ModeratorPermalink Reply by Morli on August 3, 2010 at 3:13am

Eye R640 looks interesting but I would not dare to ask the price :(. NiR is fine for me.

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Permalink Reply by Darryl Coffey on August 5, 2010 at 6:43am

COMPACT-EYE engine weights 34gr.

Our detector holder weights 18gr. (but you'll need also lens adaptor). The best solution is to design integral detector/lens adapter (as you don't need a NUC flag) and that could easily weight no more then 30 gr. (Magnesium will weight less). We could design one based on customer's requirements for quantities.

One could use for example 20mm;f/.85 lens which weights 35gr. And there you have a full open-frame camera weights 100gr.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Bakula on August 5, 2010 at 7:18am

What would be the price for engineering samples? Most of us in this forum will only need one or two imagers at most. I'd like to get one in at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University for evaluation.

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Permalink Reply by Darryl Coffey on September 8, 2010 at 12:45am

Hi Mike,

Happy to offer you a quotation but not on a web site. Commercial concerns rule and we require strict confidentiality.

Please contact us through our web site

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Permalink Reply by Darryl Coffey on September 8, 2010 at 2:41am

Is that the Sopfradir lens?

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Permalink Reply by Patrick Hammer on August 5, 2010 at 1:43pm

Check this out:

http://www.tootoo.com/d-rp14802513-ir_hermal_amera/

- its 640 x 480 and seems to tick all the boxes.

Dont dismiss it because its Chinese - its used by at least 2 UK UAV manufacturers

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Permalink Reply by Krzysztof Bosak on September 6, 2010 at 6:21am

"Dont dismiss it because its Chinese - its used by at least 2 UK UAV manufacturers"
Can they be named for that practice without halving their stock shares
(as they could be pointed out as unable to control manufacturing quality of the core component,
whatever the quality is now)
or should we dismiss the UK UAV manufacturers and go direct to the supply?

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Permalink Reply by Patrick Hammer on September 6, 2010 at 8:02am

No no - don't dismiss any UK UAV manufacturer (because they use a Chinese made IR image sensor as part of their sensor package?) . The OP asked forum members a question about IR image sensors for a specific purpose, so I offered him an option/alternative that had not been mentioned by anyone else. The fact that there are QC issues with Chinese made products is a point I acknowledged, but the other side of the coin is that a very large percentage of the big name respected Western brand named digital cameras we find for sale on the high street in European and USA towns & cities, are actualy manufacturered in Chinese factories. Auto Pilots as well ... on the DIY DRONES website is a Chinese designed & manufactured auto-pilot which has earned a very good reputation - primarily because cost versus performance.

There are issues with Chinese made products, but there is also plenty of evidence that the Chinese are quite up to the task of producing very high quality products - and at a price that makes them very competitive - hence China has become the wolrds largest manufacturer of Western brand named consumer electronics - at just about every level.

Fluke by the way purchase IR sensors from Shenzhen Orise Technology Co to use in a few of their IR products.

Could they be named without effecting there share value? Good question ..... could any Western electronic product be named for using Chinese manufactured components without impacting on the manufacturer share value(?). Theres another way of looking at the question of Chinese content in Western marketed products - wether its electronics, clothing ect ect ..... the majority of goods sold in the West nowadays contain some or other Chinese manufactured content - and speaking of image sensors specifically, China is by far the worlds largest producer, a large percentage of which is destined for Western branded products - electronics and otherwise.

And last but not least - 30min research on the net shows that at least 2 other the Western brand name products reccomended also as options to consider by contributors to the OP's question, use image sensors made by another Chinese IR image sensor manufacturer - Guangzhou SAT Infrared Technology Co. LTD(SATIR) (http://www.sat.com.cn/).

Chinese products touch on so much of what we do nowadays - whether its at work, at home, at play, developing our hobbies ect ect ........... most of it is good value for money. Some of it is CXXP.

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Permalink Reply by Darryl Coffey on September 6, 2010 at 3:57am

Please visit

http://www.premierelect.co.uk/thermal%20imaging.html

for the latest in thermal imaging

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