Now DEWESoft can "see" across a wider spectrum - bringing temperature visualization seamlessly into your data acquisition!
Adding Visual Temperature to your Recordings
There are numerous applications where the ability to "see" temperature across a wide area - or just up close - is a huge benefit. You cannot realistically put a thermocouple everywhere you might want to measure the temperature. IR cameras solve this problem neatly by allowing you to see the temperature visually, using a color or gray scale to denote either relative or absolute temperature. This is ideal in power applications, where looking at a breaker panel reveals the "hot spot" immediately, without touching or opening it. Power relays, transformers, train tracks, factory machinery ... all lend themselves to using an IR camera to spot trouble before it gets out of hand. DEWESoft is compatible with two basic kinds of IR camera interfaces, as you will see below:
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NEC/Mikron Camera
This advanced camera can be used alone, capturing IR video to a plug-in CF (compact flash) media card. Or connect it via IEEE-1394 (Firewire) to your Dewetron system, and acquire the data directly in DEWESoft. When you do, the video is more than a picture: it is a digital "channel", where a color scale along the right side of the graph indicates the temperature. Click in the center of the color scale and it will "autoscale" to the min and max temperatures shown within the current frame. Or click near the top or bottom and manually enter the highest and lowest temperature values that you want to see. Sound familiar? This is exactly how you scale recorder and scope graphs in DEWESoft! |
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