I've been looking for ways to finance hobbies of mine and currently the most expensive piece of hardware that I own is the hacked FLIR E30bx facelift.
I originally purchased it to find problems in the house I moved into and it surely have served that purpose extremely well, but since then I only tend to use it a couple of times per year at most.
In parallel I have purchased a budget thermal imager (UTi690A) for use in the messy garage environment to use during projects where I tend not to want to use the Exx, and that unit also seems to be able to substitute the Exx for the things I use a thermal image for nowadays, even if a bit more work has to be put into using it.
While I at the moment dont need the Exx performance (excellent image quality, low noise, 30fps video and manual focus), I feel like in the future I might want that level of performance again (probably spoiled now...), but when I now have tried to search for a Exx in good condition that is hackable to see what's available, it seems even more rare nowadays on auction sites, only finding really heavily used units that are partly broken, and non-hackable units for much more than I paid.
The FLIR E30bx that I own was manufactured more than 10 years ago, and my question is really; Do anyone know if any good alternatives have been produced nowadays that can compete with a hacked Exx for a similar used price?
The reason of asking is that if unable to obtain a proper Exx unit that is hackable again if I find that I may be needing one, I'm hoping that there may be something similar for a similar price that could be purchased?