FLIR Tools Online Course Updated

FLIR Tools is a software suite specifically designed to provide an easy way to update your infrared camera and create inspection reports. There is NO CHARGE for this FREE course.

At the conclusion of this course, learners will be able to:

• Describe how to import images from a FLIR camera to the FLIR Tools library using the USB connection.
• Summarize how to remotely control FLIR cameras using the FLIR Tools software.
• Explain how to measure temperatures and interpret thermal images using the FLIR Tools software.
• Describe how to record radiometric sequences from FLIR USB Video, Ethernet, and SC-Firewire cameras using optional Tools+ Software.
• Summarize how to use Word and templates to create custom reporting and analysis formats

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Interactive Labs: An Important Part of the ITC Learning Experience

At our Boston-Regional training facility we have a number of interactive, hands-on, labs set-up around the perimeter of the classroom. All are designed to help re-enforce the principles of thermography taught during a course. Students use these with their thermal imagers to improve their camera skills and learn more about infrared science as part of planned exercises that create a unique and valuable training experience for everyone in attendance.

One of my personal favorites is a simple mock-up of an electrical panel rigged with several thermal anomalies on the inside. Warm breakers, hot connections and more can all be safely inspected in this controlled environment. I use this particular lab in Level I training to demonstrate the concept of indirect heating that we teach as a part of basic heat transfer. This is the physics behind why the temperature you measure on the surface of a component is often much cooler than what is happening on the inside, at the point of failure.