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Epogee Ltd offers a thermal imaging service using state-of-the-art colour thermal imaging technology. Our high-end camera boasts high sensitivity to infra red emissions as well as high definition quality colour photographs and video (click to see specification). This technique is ideal for carrying out a thermal heat loss survey of houses or other buildings. The thermal imager will be able to identify areas which have poor heat-loss characteristics, potentially allowing remedial action to be taken. Thermal imaging is also useful for identifying the location and source of damp within walls and ceilings. Thermal imagery has various other uses (click to view). The pictures below have all been captured by our thermal imaging camera. We offer thermal imaging surveys which cost £100 for a typical house (plus a mileage charge of 40p/mile). We can also provide thermal imaging services for a variety of other purposes - please see details below

	The vacuum tube solar panel on this house roof radiates almost no heat, so it shows up black. The chimney is hot due to the exhaust from a woodstove. You can also see heatloss above the windows (shown green) - this is due to heat transfer via a cast lintel which spans the cavity of the cavity wall.
	The double-glazed window units in this picture have heat loss around their edges - where the two glazing units are bridged by the edge-seal. There is also significant heat loss from the air vent to the right of the window.
	This double-glazed window is showing heatloss around a poor closure seal of one of the openning sections, which allows warmth to escape.
	Heat loss from these skylight windows is minimal due to thick double-glazing and low-E glass. The hot-spots on the walls are due to a floodlight (which is actually NOT lit) and the exhaust vent from a boiler (NOT running). You can also just about make out the heat from the LNB of the satellite dish between the windows. Again, the heatloss from the above-window solid lintel can clearly be seen.
	This portacabin door and window lose an immense amount of heat. The flimsy door panels allow an easy escape-path for heat loss, as does the single glazed window. The door is a good fit inside the frame. What look like a gap is actually heat loss due to damp in the doorframe.
	This house does not have a cavity wall, so the walls lose considerably more heat than the roof. To the left of the bush, you can see a hotspot in the wall, caused by the heat of a radiator. An adhesive reflector panel on the wall would be of benefit here.
	This gutter has been leaking, and the trail of damp in the wall is easily picked up by the thermal imaging camera.

THERMAL IMAGING APPLICATIONS	SAMPLE PICTURES
BUILDINGS: Energy Audit - visualising heat loss in homes and industrial buildings Insulation testing Cavity Wall Insulation - verification that cavity insulation has been installed correctly Detection and location of damp in walls, roofs, floors and ceilings Detection of termite colonies and other insect infestations in buildings Location of damp penetration in leaking flat roof Water Leaks in pipework Identification of bridged damp-course	heatloss around pipe insulation
ENVIRONMENTAL: Detection of source of effluent pollution Detection of rotting material Monitoring methane emission and leachate from landfill sites
AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS	heat distribution in car engine bay
MANUFACTURING: Process monitoring and troubleshooting Predictive maintenance - mechanical (eg slipping belts, overheating bearings) Predictive maintenance - electrical (eg poor joints or connections, overheating cables) Locating leaks Non-destructive testing of products or components Crack-testing
VETERINARY APPLICATIONS: Identification and location of injury/strain/damage to muscles, joints, tendons or ligaments Avoidance of catastrophic injury in racehorses Identification of cause of poor race performance in racing animals Location of lost or missing animals
MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT Aid to Design of cooling systems Electronics design and heatsink sizing Design aid for aerodynamics in vehicles and aircraft
ELECTRICAL: Identification of faulty fuses/circuitbreakers/electrical power transmission components Design of heatsinks and visualisation of heat transfer within electronic PCBs
EXPLORATION: Locating new cave entrances Location of water sources such as springs.
POLICE AND EMERGENCY SERVICES USE: (Fire) Locating hotspots and sources of fires (Fire) Locating personnel in dense smoke (Fire) Location of suspects in darkness (Police/Forensics) Location of unmarked graves (Police/Coastguard/cave rescue/mountain rescue) Search and Rescue
ARCHAEOLOGY: Differentiation between different soil types and water-logging Aerial archaeology
PARANORMAL INVESTIGATIONS

All thermal images copyright Epogee Ltd CAMERA SPECIFICATIONS:

Image specifications
Type of detector	Uncooled focal plane array detector
Resolution	320 × 240 pixels
Range of wave-length	8-14μm
Temperature resolution	0.07ºC at ambient 30ºC
Spatial resolution	1.3mrad
Frame frequency	9Hz
Zoom	×2 digital zoom
Field of view/Min.focal length	17°×14°/0.5m
focusing	manual
Image display
Video output	NTSC composite video
Display mode	3.5-inch colour-LCD, colour electronic view-finder
Pseudo-colour set-up	User-selectable 256 pseudo-colour mode or 5 palette options
adjusting function	Brightness and contrast adjustable
Visible-light image	Picture-in-picture display
Temperature measurement
Range of temperature measurement	-20º - 350º expandable up to 2000ºC
Accuracy of temperature measurement	±2ºC or ±2% of readings
Quantitative mode	Automatic measurement and capture of highest temperature Temperature measurement of any point User-selectable upper limit temperature alarm System alarms automatically when temperature limit exceeded
Correction of air penetrating-rate	Performing automatically, based on input target distance, air temperature and relative humidity
Emissivity correction	Automatic calibration defined by user-selected emissivity
Image storage and replay
Type of storage	Built-in, large capacity FLASH-memory, storage images≥1000.
Image replay	Replay and analyze on a 4-picture basis.
Audio notes	User can record 10-second audio notes for each thermal picture.
Clock function	Real-time clock
battery	Built-in, rechargeable lithium-battery, available hours: 2 hours, changeable on-site.
Environmental parameters
Operation temperature	-10ºC - 50ºC
Storage temperature	-40ºC - 70ºC
humidity	10% - 95%
Physical Characteristics
Size	160mm × 105mm × 80mm
weight	1.5kg
Interface mode	USB