Spent a lot of today watching youtube vids and various similar questions over the past few years in this thread.
I'm wondering whether it might be better just to forget buying the phone plugin ones, and either wait until I can afford something better (well affording it isn't the problem, justifying it is
).
Or possibly I only want it because I've always fancied having one rather than really need it at all. Llast time I had a play with a thermal camera was when I was a computer operator in the 80s and we had a Cray supercomputer, the Cray engineers had one that they would use to examine the machine. If I remember correctly (and it's very possible I don't), that thermal camera also had some sort of gas.
I don't do repairs for money, I'm just a hobbyist (and a beginner when it comes to knowing electronics properly)
The other thing I've always fancied is a 3D printer
I suspect that will be the same sort of thing, cheap ones are rubbish.
Obviously I could simply not spend it and keep it until later, but my lovely wife is being overly generous in how much I spend on myself during this lock down, and chances are, it's 10000 times easier justifying things now than it will be when lock down is over