FLIR E6xt (Incl Wi-Fi)
FLIR E6xt (Incl Wi-Fi)
MSX adds visible light details to thermal images
FLIR MSX (Multi-Spectral Dynamic Imaging) adds visible light details to thermal images in real time for greater clarity, embedding edge and outline detail onto thermal readings. Unlike image fusing (merging of a visible light and thermal image), MSX does not dilute the thermal image or decrease thermal transparency.
Thermal imagers with MSX capabilities actually have two cameras—a thermal imager and a visible light camera (i.e. a typical digital camera). Every time you take a picture, both a thermal image and a visible image are captured simultaneously. Built-in software extracts key visible image elements—outlines, words, numbers, and other high-contrast edge details–and adds them to the thermal image. This helps give the image definition and makes it easier to tell what you’re looking at.
| Weight: | 576 g |
| Dimensions: | 9.4 x 24.38 x 13.97 cm; 576.06 Grams |
| Model: | E6-XT |
| Part: | 63907-0804 |
| Colour: | Black |
| Pack Quantity: | 1 |
| Batteries Required: | Yes |
| Batteries Included: | Lithium Ion |
| Manufacture: | FLIR |
| Dimensions: | 9.4 x 24.38 x 13.97 cm; 576.06 Grams |
| Quantity: | 1 |
Pros
– Wide variety of potential uses, including electronics, plumbing, heating & insulation, water leaks, perhaps scientific applications depending on need, or anything else for reading or identifying surface temperatures (including shifts).
– Thermal temperature scales readings auto adjust to the lowest and highest temperature ranges in frame (great if you have a surface that rises or falls in temperature), but temperatures scales can still be manually set.
– Can set for reading in either Fahrenheit or Centigrade/Celsius.
– Provides and calculates more precise temperatures in crosshairs.
– Allows you to take pictures using the trigger and allows download to a computer via included USB to USB-c cable.
– Standard wall adapter with a USB-c end for charging device.
– Battery is removable.
– Built in wifi feature, but have not tested it.
– Great versatility in use due to size and shape.
– Built-in, shutter-like lens cover that you can manually flip open or closed to keep your lens safe. Built in means you cannot lose it.
– Their Multi-Spectral Dynamic Imaging (MSX) is said to keep thermal images sharper. Seems great from use.
– Although have not used it myself, there is additional software you can download for this product according to manual for better analysis.
– If a temperature exceeds beyond the min/max thermal scale, it usually indicates up to the min/max temperature it can process.
Cons
– Can take a few seconds to initialize on startup, so think ahead if you need to take readings fast. Is better when you realize there is a hard-off and standby mode by how long you hold power button.
– If you are too close to an object, the visual and thermal lenses can result in an image that is misaligned (similar to the double image your eyes deliver when you hold a finger too close to your face and focus beyond it) but they are still clear. This is usually corrected by moving slightly back from the targeted area in question. Might not be the best tool if you need detailed measurement exceptionally close (a handful of inches/centimeters) from your target. Some minor misalignments can result due to using two visual and thermal lenses, but since thermal heat can radiate beyond the object edges it can be expected. Still sharp in spite of this.
If you are entirely unfamiliar with thermal imaging, just a few notes:
– If you have a metal, mirrored, or other thermally reflective surface, your own body heat or a nearby heat/cold source can be reflected and can distort your results by making them appear hotter or colder. Fun to try if you are facing a mirror, as it gives fairly good body temperature results for an indirect measurement.
– Measures surface temperatures, so you will not be able to see internal temperatures. This means things behind panes of glass or under the surface of water will not give you an accurate temperature result. If this is your goal with no way to remove your targeted area from these environments, you will need some other device such as a thermocouple, or probe thermometer to measure these internal temperatures.
Love this camera. You can even see muscle pain in the body with it. I used it in massage to help me see where a client’s pain is coming from.
Extremely easy to use thermal imaging camera from one of the leaders in thermal camera. FLIR cameras have been used for R&D and in the field for thermal testing for years but they’ve always been much more expensive. Now, for a fraction of the cost of previous models, this 160×120 imaging camera is both easy to use and extremely accurate for detecting thermal leaks, hot spots, and other heat issues easily. This makes it much easier to use for home inspection and for smaller companies or contractors needing to do thermal imaging for various reasons.
Using the center spot feature, the temperature is clearly displayed at the area marked at the center of the screen and can be recorded easily for thermal testing where every degree matters. Of course the units can be switched between C and F, and all features are easily accessed with one hand using the center control buttons. You can change between 5 color palettes for the heat signature (I prefer Iron and Rainbow) and change the range using the auto hot and cold spot feature, which I found very useful. There are also a few modes which allow you to blend the thermal and regular image together, next to each other, or just thermal or normal – all depending on your needs. You can take photos of the images and export them to your computer to give to customers or build reports.The camera comes with computer software that works on Mac or PC and allows you to edit the photos and point out temperatures at different areas of the images if desired.
For how technically advanced this camera is, it really is quite simple to operate and it’s also really easy to keep charged. Just plug a micro USB cable into the port at the top and the rechargeable battery located in the base charges up. You can purchase additional batteries if you will be in the field for a while and not able to charge the camera, but if you have the ability to charge a phone, you can basically charge the E6.
FLIR also makes an E4, E5, and E8. They are all very similar with the exception of the capture resolution. The E4 and E5 have lower resolution and they won’t show as much detail as the E6. The E8 has double the resolution but costs about a thousand dollars more. I think the E6 is a great compromise and has enough detail for anything except small circuitry. The E6 has a great warranty, including a 10 year infrared warranty. The product comes in a very sturdy “Pelican” style plastic case with foam insert and is built to take on the road and last a long time, even with heavy use. A thermal imaging camera like this from FLIR used to cost more than 5 times this price, and this is basically the same technology but updated and easier to use. I have no complains about this camera. It’s extremely easy to use and maintain, and just works great right out of the box with no learning curve at all. The E6 is also available with NIST certification if needed for an extra 500 dollars or so.
Easy to use, accurate a great tool for a roofing contracto
ice IR, only BIG bummer is this does not have a flash like our older IR camera. This was fixed with personal head lamps at the project site, but a flash would have made this a five star produc
Works as advertised, have no problems. Flir support is absolutely outstanding.
Although my order took right at 3 weeks, I understand now that this camera is on a 4-6 week backer deer from Flir.