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Cheap 'human' non-contact thermometers
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MK14:

--- Quote from: floobydust on December 23, 2021, 08:29:16 pm ---Yes that's the vid, thanks for the link.
I can't see any money savings there, aside from the 3-wire cable to the IR sensor and labour to solder it in. Unless it's to destroy the West by giving out fake negative fever results.
Somebody came up with fake firmware for a reason.

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It's crazy, and totally reckless, as it risks lives. Ignoring earlier arguments (e.g. on medical grounds), as to if these head scanning thermometers (IR), are useful/safe (when NOT fakes).

It would seem to be a very dubious way of making money, by selling/producing/designing fake thermometers (IR). Because it could literally end up killing people.
Some of the really cheap Chinese stuff, is known to have potential safety hazards, such as electric shock, fire and maybe other hazards. BigCliveDotCom youtube channel, often details such things.

The front blue keyboard layout/section and its colour. Seem amazingly identical, between that video and the OPs supplied picture. Even the label on the side seems rather similar or identical.

It would be nice to see big/clear decent photographs of the inside (especially), of the OPs unit(s). So, we could judge for ourselves.

It is a bit like the jellybean cheap/plentiful, op-amp parts, which the Chinese still fake, just to save a cent or so, on the genuine parts. It just seems so silly, really.
cdev:
Maybe accurate instruments cost more because they work better.
Coronavirus is supposed to be "the money making opportunity of a lifetime". And its safe to say it also drove up prices of many goods.

. Items are supposed to determine their own prices in a self-regulation process, At least that is my understanding of the economics of prices as elucidated by Friedrich Hayek. and debunked by Karl Polanyi.
ejeffrey:
Where are you getting these?  Do you know their history?  How many are there?  It sounds like you are dumpster diving and testing discarded devices?

There is no real wear mechanism except the switch.  If the switch is fine and the sensor isn't working my guess is that it was dropped and something inside broke or got misaligned so it was thrown away.  Nothing to do with a 40,000 click lifetime, but these are built cheap and flimsy.
Zero999:

--- Quote from: cdev on December 23, 2021, 10:16:19 pm ---Maybe accurate instruments cost more because they work better.
Coronavirus is supposed to be "the money making opportunity of a lifetime". And its safe to say it also drove up prices of many goods.

. Items are supposed to determine their own prices in a self-regulation process, At least that is my understanding of the economics of prices as elucidated by Friedrich Hayek. and debunked by Karl Polanyi.

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Because they're useless in preventing the spread of SARS-Cov2?
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