As some readers are already aware, I used to use thermography professionally and now collect and repair the technology in my retirement.
Over many years I have collected and repaired all manner of thermal imaging equipment. I love the technology and what it can achieve. it is a rare event that I sell any of my cameras so I now have quite a collection of different models. I own several examples of many of the models as I either bought a bulk lot or have a particular liking for the model, so like to have more than one. For example, I own four PM695 cameras.
I have been asked in the past if I will list the cameras that I own in order to assist others who may need my help with their own camera, its operation or repair. I am an experienced component level repair tech so working on this technology does not phase me at all. One of my early thermal camera purchases was a FLIR PM570, as new in its case and it looked unused. It had a boot fault that proved very tricky to track down. I ended up completely reverse engineering the PCB's in the camera over a period of 3 months. My evenings were occupied studying the PCB's under magnification and continuity testing using various equipment. At the time I did not have a high resolution X-Ray machine so I could not use that to help trace buried tracks within the multi layer PCB's. It was a hard task but a labour of love. As far as I know, I am the only person outside FLIR's design team with the full schematics of the PM570. Even their repair agents do not have full schematics as board changing is the repair protocol. Fortunately FLIR used the basic camera design for all the cameras that followed the PM570 in the series. I can therefore find my way around the later models with relative ease. I love the PM series series camera and so have many of them and multiple examples of each model.
I also took advantage of the brief availability of some superb NEC AVIO thermal cameras that were sold by the UK Agents liquidator when they folded. For such nice cameras, they were sold at prices I could not resist. Quite a rare make to find in the UK and they use Boeing microbolometers.
The ISG Talisman cameras were being sold off as scrap by a fire brigade recycling company and were so cheap that I bought several !
The EEV ARGUS cameras were also some of my early purchases. Again, these were ex Fire Brigade and so in varying condition. Some of mine are almost as new and others are 'well used'. These use either a Pyro-Electric Vidicon tube (Argus 1) or a very nice Raytheon BST core (Argus 2). I have a soft spot for these well made cameras so own several examples. I recently re-homed my two P4428 cameras and a P4430 as they were needed for a museum project.
I am listing all of the cameras that i have owned and noted which have been re-homed as I may still be able to assist other owners of these cameras.
I hope this list will be of interest to others and please be assured that it is not a bragging list, just details of my collection that has been requested on several occasions.
Update: three additional cameras that I forgot added to V1.01 list
Fraser