| Subject: | Re: IR Temp guns - use with caution |
| From: | Mike S |
| Date: | Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:50:23 -0500 |
At 12:47 AM 3/11/2011, David Beierl wrote... Aluminum is one of them. Its emissivity under various >conditions ranges from 0.02 to about 0.4. IR instruments assuming >.95 emissivity will therefor read somewhere between moderately and >ridiculously low. Yep. The easy fix is a quick shot of flat black spray paint on whatever you're trying to measure. >I just checked a stainless-steel pot of boiling water Don't do that with your wife's kitchenware, though. :-)
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