Flir E4 Thermal imaging camera teardown

[slpettus]

Guys dont forget about your free stuff from flir.. anyone who got an e4 ( I hope from tequipment but its good anywhere )
http://www.tequipment.net/flir-promotions-and-offers/

Here is the link to get a free item.. its a decent offer.

Cheers
Evan Cirelli

Tequipment.NET

I purchased a few from you guys earlier this week for my inspection company, havnt been shipped yet...., but do know if rewards stack to get the higher rewards since I bought multiple cameras?

[harry h]

You have to dig down to your folder containing the E8 file in command. If you aren't familiar how to do this I suggest backing out to the folder you saved the hack files in, hold down shift and right click, from there you should have an option to open in command. Then try running your crc file.

Thanks, but I must be doing something tragically stupid.  At the prompt, do you just type in crc01?

[slpettus]

Type it as it shows CRC01 E8.cfg. Then it should give you the crc code in return, which you add to your E8 file

[harry h]

Type it as it shows CRC01 E8.cfg. Then it should give you the crc code in return, which you add to your E8 file

Still no go - no code.  That was the first thing I tried when I started this. 

[dtbp]

Type it as it shows CRC01 E8.cfg. Then it should give you the crc code in return, which you add to your E8 file

Still no go - no code.  That was the first thing I tried when I started this.

Try this if you aren't very familiar with MS-DOS commands:

1. unzip/extract the e4hack3c.zip into c:\e4

2. run cmd.exe and type cd\ and the enter key

3. (the prompt should say c:\>) Now type cd\e4 and the enter key

4. (Still in cmd.exe and immediately after typing cd\e4) type CRC01 E8.cfg and the enter key

5. Take the code it gives you and follow Mike's further direction from the readme file.

[harry h]

Hey, BIG THANKS!  All is good.  Would also like to thank Mike for this great mod.

Harry

[harry h]

Well last night is seemed that the mod installed but now this morning, the camera thermal images are still 80x60   Not sure what I am doing wrong.  Any ideas?

Harry

[tomas123]

Use EzCRC from Taucher (it's foolproof )
Check visible resolution while deactivating MSX

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/flir-e4-thermal-imaging-camera-teardown/msg332090/#msg332090

[harry h]

Use EzCRC from Taucher (it's foolproof )
Check visible resolution while deactivating MSX

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/flir-e4-thermal-imaging-camera-teardown/msg332090/#msg332090

I am getting (IDS_FILE_FORMAT_ERROR)

[tomas123]

I am getting (IDS_FILE_FORMAT_ERROR)

first search in Forum after IDS_FILE_FORMAT_ERROR

I've just trimmed this post down to hide my incompetence.

It's worth mentioning that the error (IDS_FILE_FORMAT_ERROR) may indicate that you have inadvertently put a folder containing the two files inside the zipped folder instead of just the files on their own.

check your zip-file!!

[harry h]

Yes it was the zip file!  Wow, this is just too cool.  Again, thanks for the help!!!

Harry

[stuartk]

Does that apply to Tequipment orders from outside USA ?

I doubt it.

I just purchased mine from http://www.optimumenergy.com here in Canada.

The free extra goodies are for those in the USA only 

At least the shipping was free....

[echen1024]

Does anyone know where it is still FW version 1.19?

[Jaimslaw]

Does anyone know if Amazon qualifies as a Flir distributor or affiliate for purposes of the promotion Flir has going?

[Lu]

Does that apply to Tequipment orders from outside USA ?

I doubt it.

I just purchased mine from http://www.optimumenergy.com here in Canada.

The free extra goodies are for those in the USA only 

At least the shipping was free....

Three weeks ago this dealer told me all their E4s are out of stock and eta is around last week. Also told me their E4 will get the latest firmware, which pacifically told me it will be unhackable. I talked three different agents just be sure. I am so curious what is their latest firmware ?

[Arlo1]

Just ordered min from http://www.canadianghosthuntersupplies.ca/  .  lol  It was the only place I could find in Canada with them in stock.  Hope its the old firmware.  But my guess is if it was in stock it will be.

[Jaimslaw]

I don't know that it rises to the level of a add on to the upgrade steps, but making sure the battery is got enough of a charge is probably a must.  Would think that a power off during some portion of the process might really lead to some real problems.

Also as a helpful note, holding the right side if the button to get to the secret menu is more like 16 seconds than the 10.  That extra 5 seconds before it kicked in had me starting over thinking was doing it all wrong.  Just saying . . .

Love working in DOS again.  Brings back all those os programs, ms-dos, pc-dos, Dr-dos.  Anyone remember good old CP-M once being the cats meow for the OS? 

Cheers.

Dr

[Fraser]

Camera takes its power from the host computer when connected by USB. Good practice to have a charged battery though.

[Lu]

Just ordered min from http://www.canadianghosthuntersupplies.ca/  .  lol  It was the only place I could find in Canada with them in stock.  Hope its the old firmware.  But my guess is if it was in stock it will be.

I chatted  him before, his is old firmware. But, a little pricey. I think he has only one.

[amigo]

I doubt it.

I just purchased mine from http://www.optimumenergy.com here in Canada.

The free extra goodies are for those in the USA only 

At least the shipping was free....

Great, and I bought it across the border and paid USD995 while I see it's CAD995 here, meh.

[echen1024]

The 1.19 is getting harder to find. Damn people on eBay.

[Arlo1]

Just ordered min from http://www.canadianghosthuntersupplies.ca/  .  lol  It was the only place I could find in Canada with them in stock.  Hope its the old firmware.  But my guess is if it was in stock it will be.

I chatted  him before, his is old firmware. But, a little pricey. I think he has only one.

I noticed after I ordered it the website changed to say they were out of stock.
Yeah it was the only one in Canada I could find and when I order from US I would pay exchange and taxes and if they ship UPS then I get raped with special UPS FEES usually 1/2 what the value of the product is so UPS across the border is not an option.

[Fraser]

Interesting that we have not seen a single report of a camera loaded with 1.21.0 yet. I would have expected FLIR to have been shipping them by now. Some retailers order when a customer requests a unit and the shipping time in Europe is very short with overnight services used from Estonia to the Retailer.

New owners of E4's, please post your calibration date, firmware version and partial serial no. so that I may update the details on the 'E4 Useful information" page.

[echen1024]

Interesting that we have not seen a single report of a camera loaded with 1.21.0 yet. I would have expected FLIR to have been shipping them by now. Some retailers order when a customer requests a unit and the shipping time in Europe is very short with overnight services used from Estonia to the Retailer.

New owners of E4's, please post your calibration date, firmware version and partial serial no. so that I may update the details on the 'E4 Useful information" page.

Tequipment is getting the new 1.21 E4s apparently.

[grego]

Interesting that we have not seen a single report of a camera loaded with 1.21.0 yet. I would have expected FLIR to have been shipping them by now. Some retailers order when a customer requests a unit and the shipping time in Europe is very short with overnight services used from Estonia to the Retailer.

New owners of E4's, please post your calibration date, firmware version and partial serial no. so that I may update the details on the 'E4 Useful information" page.

Mine, ordered 2/8 from tequipment.net has a cal date of 1/29/2014 with partial serial of 63913xxx and shipped with 1.19.8.