Tool for camper insulation analysis

[MarkBC]

If you want to do an analysis of your camper's insulation and want to base it on quantitative measurements but you don't have $$$$$ for a full-on FLIR camera, FLIR now has an attachment for your smartphone that costs only $$$. As described here by the tech blog The Verge.
FLIR's own page for this device.

A few years ago I borrowed a $20,000+ FLIR camera from work to do this analysis of the heat flux from my camper -- with and without insulation of the soft-side.

If you're satisfied with your camper's insulation and don't need to do an analysis you can also use it as a quick early-warning check for frostbite, as I did with the borrowed FLIR camera, below:

It shows that my nose is the coldest part of my face...why mountaineers lose noses to frostbite.

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Yes, yes -- OK...this is mainly just REALLY COOL...and I'm having to try really hard to control my impulse-buying.

 

[ski3pin]

Interesting, we used FLIR to look for warm bodies in the mountains in winter. But, that always involved a military helicopter.

Please let us know what you find, Mr.BC. FYI, I only have a dumb phone.

 

[craig333]

Pretty cool device but a bit out of my price range.

 

[RoamingRobertsons]

I've been so tempted to get one of these. I'm imagining using it at night to "see" what that noise is outside. But then I think maybe I don't really want to know!

 

[Smokecreek1]

My word-more new toys! And yep-maybe I too don't really want to see what goes bang outside at night (besides that's Bobs job to let me know if bad things are sneaking up on my FWC).

Smoke

 

[Happyjax]

When we were kids we lived with an alley out back that had a nice slope. My aunt would pour hot water down it to make a sheet of ice we could sled on. She always said the hot water would freeze faster than the cold....go figure