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About Me:

Director of SPI CORP. We design, manufacture and distribute thermal imaging systems. We specialize in thermal pan tilt and flir PTZ systems.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

As a sensor manufacturer our interest is primarily in thermal imaging sensor payloads with associated positioning systems.


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Randall Kolchins replied to Randall Kolchins's discussion L3 Thermal-EYE FLIR Thermal Imager Core Infrared Camera Engine $255
"Auction has ended. Will post more soon."
May 21, 2014
Randall Kolchins replied to Randall Kolchins's discussion L3 Thermal-EYE FLIR Thermal Imager Core Infrared Camera Engine $255
"Should have put more specs. By the way this is 30hz system so we cannot export. Sorry but if you are not in the US and US citizen you should not bid on it.  We may have some 9hz cores coming up that are exportable.  If you meet the export criteria…"
May 20, 2014
Randall Kolchins replied to Randall Kolchins's discussion L3 Thermal-EYE FLIR Thermal Imager Core Infrared Camera Engine $255
"Sorry I should have posted more. See the reply above to initial post with more info. Price is up to $295 on Ebay now and the bidding closes in 6 hours."
May 20, 2014
Randall Kolchins posted a discussion
We have some left over thermal imager cores. These are the internal infrared camera engines that are in finished products. We have it listed on Ebay as a no reserve auction. current high bid is $255 as of 5-19-2014 5pm.L3 Thermal-Eye thermal…
May 19, 2014
Randall Kolchins commented on Randall Kolchins's blog post Low Cost Thermal Pan Tilt Zoom (FLIR PTZ) Gimbal WISH LIST
"Sorry, we have been away from the forum for a while. The M1-D is moving really well and being used/tested by a number of UAV manufacturer/integrators. We have looked at the feedback from the board and there are solutions out there that convert the…"
Oct 17, 2013
Randall Kolchins commented on Randall Kolchins's blog post Low Cost Thermal Pan Tilt Zoom (FLIR PTZ) Gimbal WISH LIST
"Sorry guys I am on a big presentation at the moment but I am still working the UAV project. I should have more info and time to get back into this around 3rd week in January. Keep the suggestions coming we are listening."
Jan 3, 2013
Randall Kolchins commented on Randall Kolchins's blog post Low Cost Thermal Pan Tilt Zoom (FLIR PTZ) Gimbal WISH LIST
"Just back in office today.  Keep the information coming we are looking at everyones suggestions and trying to move forward with some ideas."
Dec 18, 2012
Randall Kolchins commented on Randall Kolchins's blog post Low Cost Thermal Pan Tilt Zoom (FLIR PTZ) Gimbal WISH LIST
"Hunter,
   Yes we are just getting into this small UAV market.  We have been in thermal and the pan tilt market for many many years and the M1-D is our latest thermal pan tilt product. From the marketing side I have seen a lot of interest from the…"
Dec 13, 2012
Randall Kolchins commented on Randall Kolchins's blog post Low Cost Thermal Pan Tilt Zoom (FLIR PTZ) Gimbal WISH LIST
"Mark and Andreas
I think you are both right. For rotor craft it is more important than fixed wing."
Dec 13, 2012
Randall Kolchins commented on Randall Kolchins's blog post Low Cost Thermal Pan Tilt Zoom (FLIR PTZ) Gimbal WISH LIST
"Erik,
  Ahhh that dreaded third degree of rotation! Yes that would be top of the line to open up the potential of 3 axis stabilization. But alas I fear this will not happen.  This would truly become a complete re engineering effort or as Steven G…"
Dec 13, 2012
Randall Kolchins commented on Randall Kolchins's blog post Low Cost Thermal Pan Tilt Zoom (FLIR PTZ) Gimbal WISH LIST
"Meez and Andreas
Along with a stand alone module we are also trying to look at integration of our motors into the PWM format to interface directly with the autopilot gear. Our video is standard analog NTSC and we understand that most people are…"
Dec 13, 2012
Randall Kolchins commented on Randall Kolchins's blog post Low Cost Thermal Pan Tilt Zoom (FLIR PTZ) Gimbal WISH LIST
"Steven G
I appreciate your comments and take no disrespect. We use GoPRO quite a bit for marketing videos and such and those things are truly awesome. Terrible sound but the picture and form factor is unbelievable for $200. The Hero3 is even smaller…"
Dec 13, 2012
Randall Kolchins commented on Randall Kolchins's blog post Low Cost Thermal Pan Tilt Zoom (FLIR PTZ) Gimbal WISH LIST
"Mark
  We are very familiar with those cores but they are not low cost. 640 is out of the question in this price range. So does everyone agree that the primary use for this would be FPV night operation?  Is anyone collecting ground based data with…"
Dec 12, 2012
Randall Kolchins commented on Randall Kolchins's blog post Low Cost Thermal Pan Tilt Zoom (FLIR PTZ) Gimbal WISH LIST
"Mark
Sorry it is a thing with my company. They want us to set all blogs and social media to approve comments before they are posted. Believe me its a pain for me to have to keep approving these posts. So no it is not just you. So the best thing for…"
Dec 12, 2012
Randall Kolchins commented on Randall Kolchins's blog post Low Cost Thermal Pan Tilt Zoom (FLIR PTZ) Gimbal WISH LIST
"Ikrase
  Looks like you are having a relevant discussion to what we were just discussing here in house. Our guys know almost nothing about RC gear.  Our motors are stepper motors with a 4 wire configuration operating on 4 volt (I am not the…"
Dec 12, 2012
Randall Kolchins commented on Randall Kolchins's blog post Low Cost Thermal Pan Tilt Zoom (FLIR PTZ) Gimbal WISH LIST
"Scotty
Interesting. We don't use servos but I believe they are stepper motors (I will check with engineering on that). So how would the APM control this? What would we need to provide in the way of interface? Can you recommend a good developer kit…"
Dec 11, 2012
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